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by BruceSteers
Monday 31st August 2020 6:32am
Forum: Project showcase
Topic: GForm , zenity like gui maker for shell scripts using pipe to talk to script.
Replies: 10
Views: 26725

Re: GForm , zenity like gui maker for shell scripts using pipe to talk to script.

Stock Icons anyone? So i found my large file size issue was not because of the stock icons component added. Then removed. So I've added it again :) Now if you type GForm geticons you get this... GForm-geticons.png That shows all the available stock icons and their names. then knowing the name you ca...
by BruceSteers
Sunday 30th August 2020 2:58pm
Forum: Project showcase
Topic: GForm , zenity like gui maker for shell scripts using pipe to talk to script.
Replies: 10
Views: 26725

Re: GForm , zenity like gui maker for shell scripts using pipe to talk to script.

I could be showing my age here but i used to do AREXX scripting on an Amiga1200 , waaay back in the day lol. one day i discovered a tool called the AWNPipe.handler This was a simple tool made by Bill Parker one of the co-writers of AWeb a popular browser that he made to be able to easily knock toget...
by BruceSteers
Sunday 30th August 2020 2:41pm
Forum: General
Topic: Terminal with Shell
Replies: 7
Views: 6700

Re: Terminal with Shell

Just a thought m8 I dunno if it will help but i did think of you with the GForm app i've made. Mostly my thinking was some problems i've had using the terminal view, for some shell stuff i need a proper terminal lol. I wondered if the app might help as your program could be shell based to solve issu...
by BruceSteers
Sunday 30th August 2020 12:00pm
Forum: Project showcase
Topic: GForm , zenity like gui maker for shell scripts using pipe to talk to script.
Replies: 10
Views: 26725

Re: GForm , zenity like gui maker for shell scripts using pipe to talk to script.

I need to get a life and stop working on this lol :) major bugfix. I found a bug in the listening pipe routine where multiple lines of text were not being processed correctly. Trying to get my head around how to access the Eof(hFile) call or the hFile.EndOffile without locking up the app was driving...
by BruceSteers
Wednesday 26th August 2020 11:01pm
Forum: Project showcase
Topic: GForm , zenity like gui maker for shell scripts using pipe to talk to script.
Replies: 10
Views: 26725

Re: GForm , zenity like gui maker for shell scripts using pipe to talk to script.

Further Updated now... Lots of tweaking , more options added. Big change in the pipe reading routine. I found using the timer method to echo the pipe was occasionally missing messages somehow so was looking into it. then finally i figured out the pipes 'Watch' option and using the File_Read() event ...
by BruceSteers
Saturday 22nd August 2020 7:26pm
Forum: Project showcase
Topic: GForm , zenity like gui maker for shell scripts using pipe to talk to script.
Replies: 10
Views: 26725

Re: GForm , zenity like gui maker for shell scripts using pipe to talk to script.

Source code is getting more complex now. :roll: Added lots of new features. Gave it a home on git. https://github.com/BruceSteers/GForm Here's the current arg list , my how it's grown..... currently supported objects are... Button, ToggleButton, TextBox (InputBox), CheckBox, ListBox, DirBox, FontBox...
by BruceSteers
Thursday 20th August 2020 4:16pm
Forum: Project showcase
Topic: GForm , zenity like gui maker for shell scripts using pipe to talk to script.
Replies: 10
Views: 26725

Re: GForm , zenity like gui maker for shell scripts using pipe to talk to script.

Here's an update... Arguments are.... (Runtime args when launching GForm) title="Title for window top" width=<n> , manually define a window width box , makes a Horizontal box, subsequent objects go in the box until unboxed unbox , finishes the box button="name|text|close" , makes...
by BruceSteers
Thursday 20th August 2020 2:00pm
Forum: Project showcase
Topic: GForm , zenity like gui maker for shell scripts using pipe to talk to script.
Replies: 10
Views: 26725

Re: GForm , zenity like gui maker for shell scripts using pipe to talk to script.

Hi Cool. I've made some additions already like now it also has an incoming pipe. So the gui can talk to the script about events and the script can send command to the gui too. I've got a working example here that the script can change text fields and list indexes and stuff. Like I say it's a way to ...
by BruceSteers
Wednesday 19th August 2020 1:05am
Forum: Project showcase
Topic: GForm , zenity like gui maker for shell scripts using pipe to talk to script.
Replies: 10
Views: 26725

GForm , zenity like gui maker for shell scripts using pipe to talk to script.

Pre Note... All uploads except the latest version of this app i uploaded to this thread i've deleted. for one i was having a problem with my executable files being too large because of things i had in the source dir so they were wasting Gambas ones storage space. Plus i think people may download the...
by BruceSteers
Sunday 16th August 2020 9:46pm
Forum: General
Topic: Terminal with Shell
Replies: 7
Views: 6700

Re: Terminal with Shell

Happy to set you all on the right path 😉

Ps. Another way to get your forms to close properly is simply put 'Quit 0' at the end of your form_close procedure. That will kill any lingering unwanted processes on exit 😎