Matthew Strax-Haber wrote:
>It's not that it is going to be for experienced users, but rather that I
>have limited time, this is a quick-and-dirty project, and will only be used
>by a small group of people for a few hours a month. GUI is too much work
>for this project. What would be the best way to write a "wrapper"? Please
>inform the uninformed :).
Tell your users how to run Terminal.app, then write a simple shell-script
with no command-line args that runs your Java app.
On Windows, it's pretty much the same thing. Tell your users to run it in
a command-line window, and then write a batch-file that simplifies the
running of your app into a single command with no args.
There is no universal component where you can just "connect a terminal
window" to an arbitrary process. Well, there is, and on Mac OS X it's
called Terminal.app. There isn't a cross-platform one, however.
BTW, if you don't have time, maybe you should delegate the GUI to someone
who does have the time. If your users are inexperienced and will lose time
by working purely within a command-line environment, then it's a question
of time tradeoffs: yours vs. all theirs. That equation may make it
worthwhile to assign another programmer (or a contracter) to create a GUI.
It all depends on what the time of your users is worth, and how long they'd
have to put up with a command-line only interface.
-- GG
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