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Subject: simple x interface tools from shell scripts?
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Date: 24 Jul 90 19:45:48 GMT
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I am looking for x user interface development tools which can be called from 
shell scripts.  By this I mean programs like xmessage, yorn, etc. which can be
called from a shell script to x-ify simple prompting tasks and such like.  

For example, I'd like something for simple menus, where I provide a list of 
menu item names (say, as a here document in a shell script), it brings up a
menu in an x-window, and tells me which item was selected.  Does anyone know of
such a thing?

More fancy, how about an x version of sf (written by Paul Lew)?  sf provides a
dumb-terminal based form editing interface to shell scripts.  As input, one
provides a simple form layout with indications of the types of the data to be
input in the blanks.  It draws a form on the terminal, provides simple editing,
and returns the results as a shell script which sets shell variables to the
input values.  Has anyone made something like this?

Thanks for any help,

Donald Ziff (Max)         Center for Information and Language Studies
                          1100 E. 57th Street, Chicago, Illinois   60637
                          max@estragon.UChicago.{EDU,BITNET,MAILNET,CSNET}
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