[SOLVED] Python gui for bash script

[gmxgeek]

Hello all. I have never written anything in python, but have been told it would be the best language to write a gui for a bash script. Basically, i need a window that has 4 textboxes with labels, and one button, that when pressed will pass the textbox values to my bash script.

any takers?

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Yeah python and pygtk would probably be the best idea. You can use glade3 to create a simple gui. There's a good tutorial here that covers glade and gtk in python and in C: http://www.micahcarrick.com/12-24-2007/gtk-glade-tutorial-part-1.html

For python you probably want to check out Dive Into Python: file:///usr/share/doc/diveintopython/html/toc/index.html

It should be pretty easy to get all the input and then just use something like:

os.system("./your_script "+options)
to call your script.

[gmxgeek]

Thanks. One more quick question. Say i have a textbox called txtServer. How can i store the value of the textbox to a variable in python?

[gmxgeek]

Yeah python and pygtk would probably be the best idea. You can use glade3 to create a simple gui. There's a good tutorial here that covers glade and gtk in python and in C: http://www.micahcarrick.com/12-24-2007/gtk-glade-tutorial-part-1.html

For python you probably want to check out Dive Into Python: file:///usr/share/doc/diveintopython/html/toc/index.html

It should be pretty easy to get all the input and then just use something like:

os.system("./your_script "+options)
to call your script.



NameError: global name 'os' is not defined


EDIT: Forgot to import os -.-

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The pygtk documentation should contain everything you need to know. From the page on text entries:


The contents of the Entry can be retrieved by using a call to the following method. This is useful in the callback methods described below.

text = entry.get_text()


http://www.pygtk.org/pygtk2tutorial/index.html

[gmxgeek]

The pygtk documentation should contain everything you need to know. From the page on text entries:



http://www.pygtk.org/pygtk2tutorial/index.html

right, but if i have a button click method, and a textbox named txtServer, how would I access the entry?



text = txtServer.get_text()


comes up with 'NameError: global name 'txtServer' is not defined'
So, i guess what i am asking is how to refer to the textbox object from inside a button event


here is what i am working with


#!/usr/bin/env python

import sys
import os
try:
import pygtk
pygtk.require("2.0")
except:
pass
try:
import gtk
import gtk.glade
except:
sys.exit(1)

class NetworkMnt:
def __init__(self):
self.gladefile = "networkmnt.glade"
self.wTree = gtk.glade.XML(self.gladefile)
dic = { "on_cmdMount_clicked" : self.cmdMount_clicked,
"on_cmdExit_clicked" : gtk.main_quit,
"on_Prompt_destroy" : gtk.main_quit }
self.wTree.signal_autoconnect(dic)

def cmdMount_clicked(self, widget):
print txtServer.get_text();

if __name__ == "__main__":
mnt = NetworkMnt()
gtk.main()

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I'm pretty new to python and gtk myself and I'm a bit more familiar with using gtk.Builder rather than gtk.glade, but I think you need to use:



server = self.wTree.get_widget("txtServer");
print server.get_text();

# or
print self.wTree.get_widget("txtServer").get_text();

[gmxgeek]

Perfect! Gold star for you!