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Old 3rd August 2011
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Originally Posted by vermaden View Post
Check bxpkg which is a graphical GTK frontend for the pkg_* tools, its in the Ports of course...
Unless Daffy is changing affiliations, bxpkg is only available for FreeBSD, & FreeBSD's package tools.

Perhaps the simplest cross-platform solution is to learn the Tk extensions to Tcl. This begins a descent into programming solutions, & I don't recall Daffy mentioning any previous programming experience. Depending upon what packages are already installed, Tcl might already be installed in your OpenBSD environment as a dependency to other packages. Many Tcl/Tk tutorials can be found on the Internet.

In my opinion, if you are going to begin learning a programming language, learn Python. The Tk extensions (the same mentioned above for Tcl...) are also part of a standard Python installation. wxPython (also available in OpenBSD's package system as py-wxPython...) is a much more robust GUI library available to Python. Some beginning tutorial presentation can be found at the wxPython site:

http://wxpython.org/

There are no simple GUI building tools. Constructing an X11 interface requires programming experience. Unless you have already started down this path, don't expect to knock out complicated software in a few nights of dabbling. Programming takes time to master.
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