Really cool but I’m wondering why have the user input args in as a command line arg? Seems very arduous and shell is just... shell. IMO, I would love something like this
`> suitecase my_layout.yaml`
Suitcase: A macOS tool for deploying GUIs for simple commands and scripts
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#42This new trend on HN of CLI tools controlled through a ton of CLI arguments... Why not pass a config/yaml/json/xml file/stdin?
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#43Does anyone know of something like this for Windows? Would be nice to build a small UI around some powershell scripts I have, without having to resort to a full WinForms application.
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#44Very cool. Just a suggestion for the demos in the README though. Maybe have the code shown statically, then a gif of the GUI. Watching all the typing gets long when I just want to see the resulting GUI.
Yep, there's zero reason for the gifs. They seem really slow to me. Makes it impossible to copy the code if I wanted to, as well.
The code is on the page, in text, directly below the GIF, if you want to copy it.
The GIFs help, they should just start with the code getting pasted in, not typed in.
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#45Mac Quick Actions and Automator can be used for the simplest cases. I've build several file processing Quick Actions, which I can run by pressing buttons in Finder.
https://support.apple.com/guide/automator/use-quick-action-w...
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#46Awesome, I welcome any tools that simplify the GUI deployment process. I've built quite a collection of scripts that clean and process my company's domain-specific data. I once needed to share that with a data-scientist/computer-Luddite (sadly too common) who wasn't comfortable running CLI scripts. The solution I came up with used Platypus[0] to generate a lovely app wrapper where files could be dragged in. [0]: http…
I've used this to create a little muxer for opening URLs, which routes some to safari and some to Firefox, based on domain. Platypus allows to associate the app as a URL handler with the OS, which is very nice.
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#47As the source code isn't actually available I've opened a GitHub issue to clarify whether this is deliberate, or to track the adding of the code. https://github.com/Impedimenta/Suitcase/issues/4
The author was on this thread an hour before you posted this clarifying that it is not yet open source, so you could delete that Github issue.
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#48Mac Quick Actions and Automator can be used for the simplest cases. I've build several file processing Quick Actions, which I can run by pressing buttons in Finder. https://support.apple.com/guide/automator/use-quick-action-w...
Wow, this is awesome, and surprisingly easy to use.
I'd been looking for a simple way to run command like uptime or to get battery info not in the menu item without launching a terminal. Thank you.
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#49Nice that you did the needful! Thank you!
Re: Suitcase: A macOS tool for deploying GUIs for simple commands and scripts
#50Really cool but I’m wondering why have the user input args in as a command line arg? Seems very arduous and shell is just... shell. IMO, I would love something like this `> suitecase my_layout.yaml`
Maybe you could start a script with a shebang. Call it something more descriptive like a Windowing Shell - wish for short. Put it on top of a command language and make whole thing cross-platform.