Very cool. Just a suggestion for the demos in the README though. Maybe have the code shown statically, then a gif of the GUI. Watching all the typing gets long when I just want to see the resulting GUI.
As the source code isn't actually available I've opened a GitHub issue to clarify whether this is deliberate, or to track the adding of the code.<p><a href="https://github.com/Impedimenta/Suitcase/issues/4" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Impedimenta/Suitcase/issues/4</a>
Awesome, I welcome any tools that simplify the GUI deployment process.<p>I've built quite a collection of scripts that clean and process my company's domain-specific data. I once needed to share that with a data-scientist/computer-Luddite (sadly too common) who wasn't comfortable running CLI scripts. The solution I came up with used Platypus[0] to generate a lovely app wrapper where files could be dragged in.<p>[0]: <a href="https://github.com/sveinbjornt/Platypus" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/sveinbjornt/Platypus</a>
Customizable dialog tools have some history, there are a bunch on linux but macOS also has some.<p>Linux:<p><a href="https://help.gnome.org/users/zenity/3.32/" rel="nofollow">https://help.gnome.org/users/zenity/3.32/</a><p><a href="https://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Shell_Scripting_with_KDE_Dialogs" rel="nofollow">https://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Shell_Scripti...</a><p>macOS:<p><a href="https://cocoadialog.com/" rel="nofollow">https://cocoadialog.com/</a><p><a href="https://www.bluem.net/en/projects/pashua/" rel="nofollow">https://www.bluem.net/en/projects/pashua/</a>
Super cool. Reminds me of "platypus" - a similar tool I use frequently: <a href="https://sveinbjorn.org/platypus" rel="nofollow">https://sveinbjorn.org/platypus</a>
Who else remembers Commando in the Macintosh Programmer’s Workshop? That was a long time ago, but then the world moved in a different direction. It’s interesting that this sort of thing has been out of fashion for so long. I wonder if it will come back.
Mac Quick Actions and Automator can be used for the simplest cases. I've build several file processing Quick Actions, which I can run by pressing buttons in Finder.<p><a href="https://support.apple.com/guide/automator/use-quick-action-workflows-aut73234890a/mac" rel="nofollow">https://support.apple.com/guide/automator/use-quick-action-w...</a>
Really cool but I’m wondering why have the user input args in as a command line arg? Seems very arduous and shell is just... shell. IMO, I would love something like this<p>`> suitecase my_layout.yaml`
Really nice. Reminds me of Platypus[1].<p>I don't really use GitHub but, if possible, please change the GIFs to MP4. Besides being sharper and way smaller, one can control the playback to rewind/fast forward.<p>[1] <a href="https://sveinbjorn.org/platypus" rel="nofollow">https://sveinbjorn.org/platypus</a>
This will date me, but when I think of Suitcase for the Mac, I think of the font manager application that predated OSX... which surprisingly, still exists.[1]<p>[1] <a href="https://www.extensis.com/suitcase-fusion" rel="nofollow">https://www.extensis.com/suitcase-fusion</a>
This was a very unpleasant experience.<p>Read through the documentation... awful documentation, but the project looks cool.<p>Looked for the source... no source, that's weird, isn't this Github?<p>Found the binary... crashes without Combine.framework. That's funny... nothing about requirements in the docs...<p>Looked through the comments... couldn't get the source ready for "Launch Day"? Nor, apparently, any of the above.
So what is the point of a launch day?<p>Maybe I'll try a sample app at the Bazaar... It says it's for sharing, right? So I can see some demos there... Nope.<p>Got 234 upvotes at this point, though, so people seem to be finding something worthwhile here. Wish I knew what it was.
Anyone know something similar to this, but with help generating a web front end?
I'd love to generate a small UI for my team to help with openssl commands, being able to input data would be a bonus.<p>I could probably cook something up with node fairly fast, but I'm a remedial programmer.
Seems like a less-good derivative of Briefcase: <a href="https://github.com/beeware/briefcase" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/beeware/briefcase</a>
Does anyone know of something like this for Windows? Would be nice to build a small UI around some powershell scripts I have, without having to resort to a full WinForms application.
As of now this is not actually open source - though that’s the default expectation of a repository being on GitHub. I don’t like the pattern of doing that because I feel GitHub will become a very slick SourceForge.<p>One more experience like this and I’ll uninstall the GitHub apps from my devices because I can’t trust them to not be warez themselves or some sort.