Suitcase: A macOS tool for deploying GUIs for simple commands and scripts • Hacker News Board

Re: Suitcase: A macOS tool for deploying GUIs for simple commands and scripts

#71

Post by codeisawesome » Wed, Apr 29, 2020, 7:12 PM UTC

As of now this is not actually open source - though that’s the default expectation of a repository being on GitHub. I don’t like the pattern of doing that because I feel GitHub will become a very slick SourceForge.

One more experience like this and I’ll uninstall the GitHub apps from my devices because I can’t trust them to not be warez themselves or some sort.

Re: Suitcase: A macOS tool for deploying GUIs for simple commands and scripts

#72

Post by zapzupnz » Wed, Apr 29, 2020, 7:55 PM UTC

rjstelling wrote: post #56

k2enemy wrote: post #10

Very 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.

Thanks for the feedback, I've improved the Readme file and broken it into several pages. I'm also going to add shorter videos at the top.

Not shorter vids. Pictures.

Re: Suitcase: A macOS tool for deploying GUIs for simple commands and scripts

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Post by azinman2 » Wed, Apr 29, 2020, 7:58 PM UTC

zapzupnz wrote: post #72

rjstelling wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the feedback, I've improved the Readme file and broken it into several pages. I'm also going to add shorter videos at the top.

Not shorter vids. Pictures.

I'm fine with a gif.. because the whole thing could be like 3 seconds long.

Re: Suitcase: A macOS tool for deploying GUIs for simple commands and scripts

#74

Post by slantyyz » Wed, Apr 29, 2020, 7:58 PM UTC

This will date me, but when I think of Suitcase for the Mac, I think of the font manager application that predated OSX... which surprisingly, still exists.[1]

[1] https://www.extensis.com/suitcase-fusion

Re: Suitcase: A macOS tool for deploying GUIs for simple commands and scripts

#75

Post by azinman2 » Wed, Apr 29, 2020, 7:59 PM UTC

nfin wrote: post #51

sbarre wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

and clicking the gif gives you a skippable video

Except there are several videos and no need for me to click each one to find out what the output eventually looks like.

Re: Suitcase: A macOS tool for deploying GUIs for simple commands and scripts

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Post by 7ewis » Wed, Apr 29, 2020, 8:27 PM UTC

Looks cool, anyone got any good use cases for it?

Re: Suitcase: A macOS tool for deploying GUIs for simple commands and scripts

#77

Post by wildmusings » Wed, Apr 29, 2020, 10:27 PM UTC

goostavos wrote: post #54

wildmusings wrote: post #43

Does 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.

Shameless plug: checkout Gooey. Works on Win/OSX/Linux While it won't bootstrap your GUI straight from powershell, it can give you a pleasant GUI that calls your powershell stuff with just a few lines of Python (no actual GUI code required!) ^_^ https://github.com/chriskiehl/Gooey

A python dependency is unfortunately out of the question for me, but that is a really cool project.

Re: Suitcase: A macOS tool for deploying GUIs for simple commands and scripts

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Post by zapzupnz » Thu, Apr 30, 2020, 12:03 AM UTC

azinman2 wrote: post #73

zapzupnz wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not shorter vids. Pictures.

I'm fine with a gif.. because the whole thing could be like 3 seconds long.

The only thing we need to see is the outputted user interface. Everything else is superfluous.

Re: Suitcase: A macOS tool for deploying GUIs for simple commands and scripts

#79

Post by zapzupnz » Thu, Apr 30, 2020, 12:41 AM UTC

nfin wrote: post #51

sbarre wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

and clicking the gif gives you a skippable video

Taking me to another website to look at the same clip — and then make me skip to the end myself and then manage having to pause the video — is lipstick on a pig.

A JPEG will be just fine.

Re: Suitcase: A macOS tool for deploying GUIs for simple commands and scripts

#80

Post by zelienople » Thu, Apr 30, 2020, 6:15 AM UTC

This was a very unpleasant experience.

Read through the documentation... awful documentation, but the project looks cool.

Looked for the source... no source, that's weird, isn't this Github?

Found the binary... crashes without Combine.framework. That's funny... nothing about requirements in the docs...

Looked through the comments... couldn't get the source ready for "Launch Day"? Nor, apparently, any of the above. So what is the point of a launch day?

Maybe I'll try a sample app at the Bazaar... It says it's for sharing, right? So I can see some demos there... Nope.

Got 234 upvotes at this point, though, so people seem to be finding something worthwhile here. Wish I knew what it was.