Kommander User Manual

Kommander User Manual

Marc Britton <[email protected]>

Convert docs to docbook format: Robert Nickel


Revision 2.0.0

Kommander is a set of tools that allow you to create dynamic GUI dialogs that generate, based on their state, a piece of text. The piece of text can be a command line to a program, any piece of code, business documents that contain a lot of repititious or templated text and so on. The resulting generated text can then be executed as a command line program(hence the name “Kommander”), written to a file, passed to a script for extended processing, and literally anything else you can think of. The best part of it all? You aren't required to write a single line of code!


Table of Contents

1. Overview
What?
How?
Why?
Who?
2. Theory and Basic Dialogs
Text Widgets
Text Associations
Specials
Text Generation
Editor
Architecture
Getting Started
Adding Widgets
Laying out the widgets
Setting up text associations
Final touches
Executor
Architecture
Running dialogs
3. Application and Advanced Dialogs
A simple program executor
Setting up the widgets
Configuring Text Associations
Finishing up
A tar front end
Setting up the main choice
Setting up the read options
Setting up the write options
Adding I/O handling widgets
Final widgets
Laying out the final dialog
4. Additional Information
Widget reference
Specials reference
Common Problems & Trouble Shooting
Contributing
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