Starting a GUI launcher for Medley...
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pixel...@gmail.com
Jun 4, 2026, 3:15:41 AMJun 4
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Good Morning,
Don't know if there is interest, but I've updated my little launcher script to now have a Tkinter GUI. Normally I'd do this in a sensible language like Common Lisp but getting people to install that is a draconian process. It's easier for "ship for Grandma" using Python with Tkinter. The Common Lisp analog is probably using CL and NODGUI.
I should probably cover more launch operations in the widgets set.
Right now I just have a handful of themes and two resolution boxes (about all I use).
This is hack quality but it could be turned into more with sensible labelling and extension of the options to cover flags.
I don't speak for peoples' taste so if you don't care for my historically inaccurate themes I won't take offence. It was dangerous to give an "art guy" the option for 2 custom colors and a cursor! Digging through the manual, there is color in there somewhere! Hopefully it's not been blocked off totally during porting.
- Ryan
Don't know if there is interest, but I've updated my little launcher script to now have a Tkinter GUI. Normally I'd do this in a sensible language like Common Lisp but getting people to install that is a draconian process. It's easier for "ship for Grandma" using Python with Tkinter. The Common Lisp analog is probably using CL and NODGUI.
I should probably cover more launch operations in the widgets set.
Right now I just have a handful of themes and two resolution boxes (about all I use).
This is hack quality but it could be turned into more with sensible labelling and extension of the options to cover flags.
I don't speak for peoples' taste so if you don't care for my historically inaccurate themes I won't take offence. It was dangerous to give an "art guy" the option for 2 custom colors and a cursor! Digging through the manual, there is color in there somewhere! Hopefully it's not been blocked off totally during porting.
- Ryan
Paolo Amoroso
Jun 4, 2026, 6:11:50 AMJun 4
to pixel...@gmail.com, Medley Interlisp core
It's an interesting approach but on my Linux box I use the native application launcher of my desktop environment, Mint Cinnamon.
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