[ILUG] What would I need to know\study to make GUI's & scripts

[David Golden]

On Sunday 25 April 2004 10:04, Barry O'Donovan wrote:

>
> However, it's safe to say if you cannot program in C++ then Java is by far
> your easiest route. Actually, with no programming background, Java is
> probable your ony choice.

I'd suggest Python before Java, particularly for a beginning programmer.  
http://wxpython.org/what.php.  Work through the python tutorials and
then the wxpython tutorials linked on that site, and you'll be programming
very quickly. 

Tcl/Tk is also still around and works quite well for simple guis and scripts, 
and is still installed with most linux distros.  It has been used since time 
immemorial for whipping up custom control gui scripts, actually, that's
it's major application.   See http://www.scriptics.com/ and glance through the 
documentation, particularly the intro tutorials.  tcl/tk is really, really 
quick (compared to almost anything else) for simple (and not so simple) 
custom GUIs, it's just a pity its looks haven't been modernised a bit.

in a shell window:
$ wish
% button .b -text "Click Me!" -command { puts "Do Stuff!" }
% pack .b

While tcl and python are hardly the world's greatest languages ever (that's 
Lisp, obviously :-) ), they are exceptionally easy to pick up, and make the
bloated bureaucratic hype-driven Java stuff look very... bloated, bureaucratic 
and hype-driven...