John F. wrote: > I want to write a client app in Python using wxWindows that connects to > my FreeBSD server via SSH (using my machine account credentials) and > runs a python or shell script when requested (by clicking a button for > instance). > > Can someone give me some advice on how to create a "graphical shell" > per se?
Well, a "graphical shell" is just a wxWidgets application that exposes a few widgets (buttons, list, whatever). Each widget has a "event" associated to it and this event can trigger whatever command, even a remote command on your FreeBSD server (via ssh). As a consequence: - create your user interface (I suggest you to use wxPython and wxGlade for this) - associate to each and every widget a "event handler" - make your event handlers call your scripts on your FreeBSD machine via SSH (use PySSH or Conch for this) Python has a couple of good implementation of SSH: http://pyssh.sourceforge.net/ http://twistedmatrix.com/projects/conch/ Both of them are well documented. You can find a small example here: http://www.palovick.com/code/python/python-ssh-client.php Do not use wxWidgets directly. You would have to re-create a lot of Python-wxWidgets integration that already exists. Use wxPython instead (www.wxpython.org). There is a quite good GUI builder for wxPython that is called wxGlade. It can generate XML files that are easier to maintain than C o Python code. CU ----------------------------------- Alessandro Bottoni -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
