Creating quick GUI front ends

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Published on 2010-04-15T12:09:16Z Indexed on 2010/04/15 12:13 UTC
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Hi,

I wanted to have a GUI front-end for a script that accepts numerous command-line options, most of them are UNIX paths. So I thought rather than typing them in (even with auto-completion) every time, I'd create a GUI front end which contains text boxes with buttons beside them, which when clicked will invoke the file browser dialogue. Later, I thought I'd extend this to other scripts which would sure require a different set of GUI elements. This made me think if there's any existing app that would let me create a GUI dialog, after parsing some kind of description of the items that I want that window should contain.

I know of programs like Zenity, but I think it's doesn't give me what I want. For example, if I were to use it for the first script, it'll end up flashing sequence of windows in succession rather than getting everything done from a single window.

So, basically I'm looking at some program that lets me create a window from a text description, probably XML or the like. Please suggest.

Thanks Jeenu

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