topic Re: Menuing System in Operating System - HP-UX

Menuing System

Chrise3112 — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:16:53 GMT

Good afternoon all,

Does anyone know of a menuing system that will run on HP-UX 11iv3 which will allow us to have multiple ways of viewing the same menus. Eg.: text based menus via telnet/ssh, html via a web browser or X based menus.

These would then call scripts or programs on the unix box.

I was hoping that the SMH custom menus may allow us this but they don't

Thanks
Chris.

Re: Menuing System

Michael Steele_2 — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:39:49 GMT

#!/usr/bin/ksh
#

echo "enter num:\c"
read num1

case $num1 in
1) /home/user/script1;;
2) /home/user/script2;;
3) /home/user/script3;;
*) ;;
...
esac

????

Please elaborate from this.

Re: Menuing System

Chrise3112 — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:07:33 GMT

That would work great on a terminal session... but not so good from a web page.

I am after something that will work from multiple front ends. Character for a terminal session, X for those with X terms (these 2 could possibly be the same) and also a web front end to present to more users.

Chris

Re: Menuing System

OldSchool — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:41:25 GMT

there used to be a commercial package based to tk/tc that did Xwindows and terminals. I don't recall the name, and nothing in google rang a bell.

There is TkMenu stuff for perl that looks interesting.

Finding ONE package that does ALL THREE (terminal, XWindows and html) is probably going to be a problem. as I noted, I've seen a package that does two of the three, but not all of them.

You might want to google "perl tk menus" if you're up for writing your own....

Re: Menuing System

Chrise3112 — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:44:08 GMT

Thanks,

That is a good starting point... it might be that we write a CGI script as well as the perl/tk one to achieve it.

I was just being lazy ;)

C.

Re: Menuing System

Olivier Masse — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:47:02 GMT

There used to be dialog/xdialog that had identical front-ends to generate both a curses-based and X-based interface. But the issue will be the same as what was said previously, I don't know of any me too that will add in a web interface.

Good luck

Re: Menuing System

Chrise3112 — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:15:00 GMT

Nor me... but I thought I would ask :)