Re: Easy gtk2 binding

[sdb cloud9 net (Stuart Brorson)]

I'll echo what somebody else said here:  Use Python:

http://www.python.org/

Python is easy to learn & use, and is object oriented from the bottom
up.  (As opposed to Perl, whose object-oriented stuff is kind of
grafted on the side as an afterthought.)  Python has nice gtk bindings: 

http://www.pygtk.org/

And you can use Glade to build your windows; here's one tutorial:

http://laguna.fmedic.unam.mx/~daniel/pygtutorial/pygtutorial/

You can Google up zillions of other sites describing how to use
Python/GTK/Glade as a RAD suite.

As for my experience:  I wrote a GUI installer for the gEDA Suite
(GPL'ed electronics design package) using Python, GTK, and Glade.  The 
installer checks for dependencies, asks the user a bunch of questions,
and then wraps the "configure && make && make install" process.  Like
your proposed work, this program was not complicated (the algorithm is
simple); creating a functional GUI and issuing a bunch of shell
commands is the main business of the program.  The whole thing took me
about 3 -- 4 weeks of nights/weekends development.  Doing the
equivalent thing in C/C++ would have taken *months* due to both the
complexity of the languages, as well as the longer debug cycle. 

One final note:  When you are done with your work, and want to
distribute it, Python has a facility called "freeze", which basically
takes your program & all the libraries it depends upon & bundles them
up into a single portable executable.  Sometimes, getting freeze to
work correctly is a little tricky with GTK, but once you've done it,
you can run your executable on any machine, even if it doesn't have a 
Python interpreter on it. 

Have fun!

Stuart

> Hi,
>
> in the past I programmed gtk2 only with the C and C++ bindings. Now I
> like to create a GUI for Linux that makes heavy use of shell commands,
> sed and awk. So I think a better solution would be to use some scripting
> language, because C and C++ isn't the right solution for this. I don't
> know much scripting languages. I know programming of bash, LUA and some
> basic skills in several other scripting languages. So which is the "best
> and easiest" to learn scripting language with good supported gtk2
> bindings? Perhaps OO would be great. And  I like to use Glade for UI
> design and libglade to create the GUI. Please tell me your experience.
>
> regards
> Andreas
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