Did anybody ever use Gphoto2 with Whiptail or Dialog?

Alan Corey <[email protected]> Sat, 7 Nov 2020 11:46:06 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.multimedia.gphoto.user
Message-ID <CAOh3dDYhUhvQKHOghuaJUmSOmxrwF+L2m9Fdq9C7aaci3BJ+Rg@mail.gmail.com>
Dialog has been around for years, Whiptail is a Debian (I think)
adaptation of it.  It's meant for adding GUI-like user interfaces to
Bash scripts.  They work with or without Xorg, you can make menus and
checkboxes, that sort of stuff.  It's usable over an ssh connection
since it's really curses, there's something similar in DOS I remember
from my Turbo Pascal days in the 1980s.

On a Raspberry Pi, raspi-config is written using it, it's just a Bash script..

Because Gphoto2 has the ability to list choices for options, if you
could store those into arrays in Bash and spew them out as choices on
the screen, you could make it read cameras and possible options on
startup.  A couple years ago I was trying to imagine a program for
controlling cameras that would work well on a Raspberry Pi with a
touchscreen (and batteries).  Whiptail should be usable on a $10
Raspberry Pi ZeroWT which has wifi and bluetooth.  There are some
640x480 touchscreens for them around.
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