yad

>Visual Basic allowed people with minimal knowledge of computers to write useful applications Over a weekend, I built a very useful application using only the `yad` [1] tool, sqlite3, and BASH scripts. Its a membership system with integrated Bluetooth, QR codes, Markdown for membership cards, and so on. I was impressed with how quickly it all came together. It was delightful to be programming forms, using BASH to validate the results, and then stuff things into a relational database - all with common tools available with ease on the newly installed Raspberry Pi. I was struck with how pleasant it felt to be coding this way. Immediate forms, very rapid validation logic, and a great set of tools to do data mangling. I even managed to convince ChatGPT to give me a "randomized test data" script that populated my nascent database with accept

I like yad[0] for this. For example, I use it to present a GUI color picker to change/insert colors in Vim (via a plugin called vCoolor[1]). I also use it in some i3/sway scripts that need user input or to show a progress bar. [0]: https://github.com/v1cont/yad [1]: https://github.com/KabbAmine/vCoolor.vim

It's active. Seems to have been moved to https://github.com/v1cont/yad

I'm looking for a tool or method to quickly bring-up a GUI based on incoming stream of structured data (JSON, MessagePack, etc). Specifically, I'm looking for the `visualize` part of this pipeline: `my | custom | data | feed | visualize` Is there a method or a tool that does so? Such tool shall limit freedom and granularity of widget placement and instead, substitute it with ease-of-use and script-ability. For plotting graphs, there is feedgnuplot [1]. Zenity [2] and yad [3] are kinda like this but for form generation. [1]: https://github.com/dkogan/feedgnuplot [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenity [3]: https://github.com/v1cont/yad

If you want to present GUIs from shell scripts, I highly recommend zenity and/or yad: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/zenity https://github.com/v1cont/yad

I recently wrote[1] a track-selector front end script for youtube-dl that uses yad[2] as a simple GUI[3]. It's not finished (it needs better error handling anbd the gui layout is kind of ugly), but it mostly works. [1] https://gist.github.com/pdkl95/0f963eae3612ecb104f233ca9eed4... [2] https://github.com/v1cont/yad (yad is similar to zenity/{g,}dialog) [3] https://i.imgur.com/B5uf0PB.png