On Thu, July 12, 2007 7:51 pm, Stewart Stremler wrote: > begin quoting Lan Barnes as of Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 07:00:27PM -0700: >> I ran across this library in my travels. It's by Don Libes, the same >> person who wrote expect, so we can expect it to be excellent. // pun >> subconscious >> >> http://expect.nist.gov/cgi.tcl/ > > Interesting. > >> I don't know anything about CGI or web programming, but I've always >> wanted >> some system that would take Tk front end entry screens and translate >> them >> into web forms. Maybe this is a building block. > > You just want to take a subset of the widget commands and use 'em to > generate the appropriate html to recreate an approxmiation of the > GUI form on a webpage? > > What layout manager do you wish to use? > > Do you care about what is used to generate the layout (i.e., tables, > frames, or CSS)? > >
My requirements aren't that evolved. But I would take a system like the one I developed to use SpecTcl to make front end screens for postgres flat files, and then make a code generator to read _those_ and make the CGI. Instant web conversion. kewl. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
