NOTE: this is an old repo, converted from CVS to github. The current version
of tkrun.c is in $NEMO/src/tools/tkrun.
The python interface is experimental, was working under python2 in 2008,
but currently is broken in python3. See
tkrun is a tk script generator allows you to build a Tcl/Tk GUI that
executes another program or script. You don't need to learn Tcl/Tk
(although that is still much easier than learning to program a GUI in a
language like C or C++). TkRun is probably most useful if you use sliders,
radio- and checkbuttons and perhaps file browsers. For pure text entry
the speedup you gain in your life is only modest, if not even less.
The receiving program *must* currently conform to the ``keyword=value''
(but probably not too hard to add some ``-option value'' type
interface). In the C-shell this is easily achieved by adding the
following 3-liner to the top of the script:
foreach a ($*)
set $a
end
I am submitting this code in the hope it will be tried out and found
useful, but problems and suggestions for improvement be reported for
updates which I am planning.
adass97.ps.gz: a small poster contribution I gave at the annual ADASS
conference. I represented the status at the 0.1 release.
redo: Also added is a tiny little tcl/tk script 'redo' that I found in John
Ousterhout's book that I find quite useful under certain circumstances.
You can run programs, and keep rerunning them. Cute.
Feel free to redistribute the code (please keep the original copyright
and GPL notice) but I appreciate receiving changed code, particularly
if it is an improvement on my version.
The latest "x.y" version can be found in
ftp://ftp.astro.umd.edu/progs/nemo/tkrun-x.y.tar.gz
or see the NEMO home page at:
http://www.astro.umd.edu/nemo/
Note: if the tar file version contains the word beta, e.g.
tkrun-0.2beta.tar.gz, the version is just a beta snapshot of
that version, and not final. Use at your own risk.
Note2: sometime in November 2000, I noticed the announcement of a similar
program under Freshmeat, or Linux Applications, and this should be tracked
down..
Also check out some python products:
optfunc: http://github.com/simonw/optfunc/tree/master
Note tkrun is really maintained within NEMO now. $NEMO/usr/tools/tkrun
- Peter Teuben