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edoceo a day ago

On Linux there is also this windowing shell `wish` which I've used for some very quick (and very very dirty) UIs

a1o a day ago | parent | next [-]

I haven’t used myself but in Linux there is also zenity

https://linux.die.net/man/1/zenity

I have seen scripts that use it for a quick GUI.

I really dislike using Powershell as a shell, but it looks like on Windows specifically it also has some gui thing that is somewhat similar to a .NET like zenity.

edoceo a day ago | parent [-]

This seems modal driven. Like calling MsgBox on windows. Wish (iirc) let me get multiple labels, input and buttons in an Hbox/Vbox type layout.

ashenke a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Do you have more information? It looks interesting

edoceo a day ago | parent [-]

I don't, but it was easy even before AI code.

It's this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wish_(Unix_shell) - which turns out is Tcl.

I used it to wrap up some socat and curl. Ugly stuff. Reading values from a serial device, show on screen until a button press when a value was sent over HTTP. The kind of code you hate but the management thinks is production ready.

I found it because someone on Gentoo IRC was like: ?"if you hate yourself try this"?. Would have preferred to do the whole thing in Perl.

1718627440 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

This is for example use by the builtin Git GUI.