Cool -- this sort of GUI wrapper around dpupmaker.sh is something I have already thought about. I was expecting it to be created rather later, after the script itself has had a lot more testing and real-life use from the command line.ARAN wrote:I want only to say that i have just developed something very interessting thing based on your Script Johnathan.
Its a Rox Application which understand Drag and Drop functionality.
For creating DotPups now the Puppy user dont need any more to use the Shell.
Well done! I am somewhat concerned that making it that easy to install and use may tempt non-developers to try and use it, and that could lead to an explosion of time-consuming "support requests". For example, have you actually successfully used dpupmaker.sh to build xmms-recorder yet? If so, I expect you had to build and install a couple of other things first, right? And how did you know what those pre-requisites were... it often takes some degree of extra knowledge to build medium or large applications successfully.
Go for it! Do make sure the user can see the text output from the script, and to test the exit status of the script (0 means it seems to have worked, 1 or any other non-zero value means it failed. Otherwise the user will not know that they just created a bad or incomplete dotpup!In the next days i will try to create a DotPup Package of this RoxApplication ...
If you want to just post the Rox app here (not yet Dotpup-ified), ideally with a sentence or two on how to install it into Rox, that would be good too. Or start a separate thread in this forum for your GUI tool, maybe?
Jonathan