[NTLUG:Discuss] Making GUIs

Chris Cox cjcox at acm.org
Tue Mar 2 14:01:21 CST 2004


Wayne Patterson wrote:
> What would be the easiest language to use to make a GUI front end to a 
> pre-existing command line program?
> I know very little about programing except in using assembler.
> Thanks in advance,
> Wayne
> 

Definitely Tcl/Tk.

Other languages have a Tk option as well.. but the
i/f isn't as easy IMHO.  Also might want to look
at "expect/Tk" if your command presents a text based
gui and you want to wrapper it.

Tcl/Tk sample at:
http://www.ntlug.org/archive/tp/tcltk/index.html






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