> Well, it's almost always easier to create CLI utilities than GUI > utilities. :) (Win32 API and MFC are horrible APIs, yes; but GTK and > most other X toolkits I've seen and used are only marginally better.) > GLI utils can be quicker to use (yes, even for experienced users) than > CLI tools for some tasks if well-designed, however. > > (The point of this is just that there are other reasons to want > Windows--and X--tools than Joe User. Can't blame you for not wanting to > be the one to do it--it's not easy.)There's always the possibility of a CLI program with an API that can be called by a GUI frontend. My favourite win32 example: RazorLame. edb --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 12:24:01PM -0500, EDB wrote:> There's always the possibility of a CLI program with an API that can be > called by a GUI frontend. > My favourite win32 example: RazorLame.Better off calling a library. Calling an external program entirely means a commandline UI and parsing text. There's no need for that, and nothing gained. (All of the logic would need to be done anyway--determining common tags, etc--and the low-level stuff--parsing and changing actual files--should be a library anyway.) -- Glenn Maynard --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.