On 8/5/2011 3:42 PM, Philip Semanchuk wrote:
On Aug 5, 2011, at 4:10 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
On 8/5/2011 2:05 PM, Irmen de Jong said this:
On 05-08-11 19:53, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
I have a task where I want to create pretty simple one page visual
interfaces (Graphical or Text, but it needs to run across Windows,
Cygwin, Linux,*BSD, OSX ...). These interfaces are nothing more
than option checklists and text fields. Conceptually something like:
Please Select Your Installation Options:
Windows Compatibility Services _
Linux Compatibility Services _
TRS-DOS Compatibility Services _
What Is Your email Address: _______________________
What I'm looking for is a way to describe such forms in a text
file that can then be fed into a tool to generate the necessary
pyGUI, Tkinter, (or whatever) code. The idea is that it should
be simple to generate a basic interface like this and have it
only record the user's input. Thereafter, the python code
would act on the basis of those selection without any further
connection to the GUI.
An added bonus would be a similar kind of thing for generating
web interfaces to do this. This might actually be a better model
because then I only have to worry about a single presentation
environment.
Ideas anyone?
Hi Tim
This looks pretty straightforward to me; maybe I'm missing something. It
doesn't look trivial, but the steps seem pretty clear. Is there some part in
particular that's giving you trouble?
Cheers
Philip
I want to take a text definition file that looks something this:
Title "Please Select Your Installation Options:"
Checkbox "Windows Compatibility Services"
Checkbox "Linux Compatibility Services"
Checkbox "TRS-DOS Compatibility Services"
Inputbox "What Is Your email Address:"
And have that aut-generate the GUI interface described above for the
selected GUI toolkit and/or an equivalent HTML page.
I know I can write a program to do this, but it seems that someone else
may have already solved this problem.
Appearance isn't terribly important. I want a "Quick-And-Dirty" configuration
manager interface (for configuring new operating system VMs). The reason
that I want a simple text file definition is to make it easy to add new
options to the display as they become available. For example, suppose
it becomes possible to work with a new OS, then all I'd have to do is
add the following to the text definition file, and regenerate the interface:
Checkbox "MVS Compatibility Services"
The idea is to not have to touch the code base as the options of the GUI
evolve, but rather to modify the data file that describes it. In some sense,
this is a variation of HTML templating except I want to do it (potentially)
with a thick client GUI.
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