Tool to generate GUI for command line program

Question

I'm looking for a program that semi-automatically builds a GUI for a Windows command line program.

That is, I want to give it an arbitrary command line program and somehow describe its usage ("It takes a list of filenames, and the --foo and --bar options followed by a string") and it will create a new GUI wrapper program that allows selection of files with a "Browse" dialog box and has text boxes for foo and bar.

I remember having tried a program like this before, but I don't remember what is was called and google fails to remind me.

Answer 1

Are you talking about Gumbie?

Gumbie highlights:

• In theory at least, Gumbie allows you to build a GUI without ever using a GUI. It's the GUI hater's GUI builder...
• Gumbie provides reasonable defaults for the handling of a number of events, such as windowClosing.
• Gumbie comes with some features (e.g., layers) that facilitate the creation of GUIs for text-stream based command line software.
• The main module of Gumbie offers support for building java applications that can also be run as java applets within netscape or MS IE.

Here's an example.