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On Linux there is also this windowing shell `wish` which I've used for some very quick (and very very dirty) UIs
by edoceo 1mo ago
On Linux there is also this windowing shell `wish` which I've used for some very quick (and very very dirty) UIs
- ashenke 1mo agoDo you have more information? It looks interesting
- edoceo 1mo agoI don't, but it was easy even before AI code. It's this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wish_(Unix_shell) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wish_(Unix_shell) - which turns out is Tcl. I used it to wrap up some socat and curl. Ugly stuff. Reading values from a serial device, show on screen until a button press when a value was sent over HTTP. The kind of code you hate but the management thinks is production ready. I found it because someone on Gentoo IRC was like: ?"if you hate yourself try this"?. Would have preferred to do the whole thing in Perl.
- a1o 1mo agoI haven’t used myself but in Linux there is also zenity https://linux.die.net/man/1/zenity https://linux.die.net/man/1/zenity I have seen scripts that use it for a quick GUI. I really dislike using Powershell as a shell, but it looks like on Windows specifically it also has some gui thing that is somewhat similar to a .NET like zenity.
- edoceo 1mo agoThis seems modal driven. Like calling MsgBox on windows. Wish (iirc) let me get multiple labels, input and buttons in an Hbox/Vbox type layout.
- 1718627440 1mo agoThis is for example use by the builtin Git GUI.