The several of these I've looked into (duck-duck-go is having a hard time finding some of them) solve a problem that I don't have, writing the UI.
Some are inappropriate even for that, since they must interface using the tty that their parent process (shell) is using, not some X server not available over said tty connection. I have no problem writing the UI myself (particularly in Python). What I haven't figured out is how to return the results to the parent shell. Not because I can't write it somewhere other than the tty, but because I don't know how to get the shell to hook up a pipe to that extra fd, to which I can write, and from which the shell can later read (while leaving the tty connected to the usual fds. On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Michael ODonnell <michael.odonn...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > Here is a more complete list of candidates some of which may > handle the fd gymnastics in question for you and then simply > utter the desired results on their stdout: > > Python: > python-dialog - Python module for making Text/Console-mode user interfaces > > Text: > dialog - Displays user-friendly dialog boxes from shell scripts > kommander - visual dialog builder and executor tool > ssft - Shell Scripts Frontend Tool > whiptail - Displays user-friendly dialog boxes from shell scripts > > X11: > xmessage - display a message or query in a window (X-based /bin/echo) > gxmessage - xmessage clone based on GTK+ > zenity - Display graphical dialog boxes from shell scripts > kaptain - universal graphical front-end for command line programs > > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
