Command Line GUI Interaction

[IanWright]

I asked a question about a GUI a while back and realised it was a bit vague and probably didn't explain what I needed to do, so heres another attempt...

I'm looking to program a GUI, that directly interacts with the command line. I know this is easy in windows to integrate with DOS, but haven't got a clue how to do it in Linux, and being relativley new would appreciate any advice anyone can offer.

The typical kinda thing I'm after doing, is dragging a slider bar which in turns alters a value (such as % packet loss) and will then run a netem command and change the packet loss.

I'm very new to Linux, and only programming experience is with C, VB and a little bit of Java (which I'm not too great at! :S)

Any suggestions would be great guys, thanks!

Ian

[dee.dw]

What do you mean with interact exactly? If you use C, you can type

system(string); where string is a char-array. It's just the same as you typed it in a terminal.

Greetings, Dee

[Basu]

If you're using KDE you might want to try an app called Kommander which allows you to create a simple GUI with a shell script as a back end