On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Loren M. Lang wrote:

> I have setup a series of programs for controlling/monitoring/testing
> some hardware through a serial port that are all command-line based.
> The engineers working on the project were fine with this, but as they go
> into production, they need a more dummy-proof interface since they will
> have many people testing that don't know this as well.  I was looking
> for a good way to make a quick gui, ideally independent of the current
> programs.  I've looked at using something as simple as a shell script
> wrapper using dialog for the interface to using mozilla's framework for
> writing a nice gui environment.  Other ideas are doing ncurses in perl
> since my existing scripts are all in perl or even perk/tk or perl/gtk.
> The last idea was develop a web-based interface since it's easily
> accessible from other computers.

i'd higly recommend the fltk toolkit.  thats Fast Light ToolKit.  very
fast, very lightweight, easy to develop and very cross platform.

its the simplest solution i've found that does more than i need.

myren


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