Gooey: Turn command line programs into GUI applications
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Re: Gooey: Turn command line programs into GUI applications
#2Really cool. May try to make something like this for jCommander.
Re: Gooey: Turn command line programs into GUI applications
#3Clever.
However, it is not for any command line program. It works only for python programs that use argument parser. Though, one can write a python argument parser around a cli to make it work.
Re: Gooey: Turn command line programs into GUI applications
#4Very cool!
Does anything similar exist for Android ?
I would love to use some bash scripts but I don't find the terminal editors I tried practical.
Re: Gooey: Turn command line programs into GUI applications
#5Really pretty neat especially if your tool might be used by less technical folks. I can't count the number of times people in our engineering department have given non-technical people in our company a command line tool because its easier than adding a GUI, be it native or web. I think this will come in handy in those cases.
Re: Gooey: Turn command line programs into GUI applications
#6Really awesome and promising idea, but I think the implementation is limiting. Couldn't it just as well parse help text? It's not guaranteed to be standard, but there are probably more programs that can be parsed that way than use ArgumentParser.
Re: Gooey: Turn command line programs into GUI applications
#7I like it! How about an Open/Save button to choose files for stdin/stdout?
Re: Gooey: Turn command line programs into GUI applications
#8How about converting CLI programs into Web based applications ?!!
Re: Gooey: Turn command line programs into GUI applications
#9Good idea. I wonder if anyone has done this for general unix command-line apps by parsing out the man pages on the fly. It probably wouldn't work for all programs but may be gnu style ones would be consistent enough.
Re: Gooey: Turn command line programs into GUI applications
#10Really awesome and promising idea, but I think the implementation is limiting. Couldn't it just as well parse help text? It's not guaranteed to be standard, but there are probably more programs that can be parsed that way than use ArgumentParser.
http://docopt.org/
This project attempted to make argument parsing and the help string synonymous. I'm not sure if it is being actively maintained.