Re: Did anybody ever use Gphoto2 with Whiptail or Dialog?

On Sat, Nov 07, 2020 at 11:48:49AM -0500, Alan Corey wrote:
> Oh, I meant to include this link:
> https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/Bash_Shell_Scripting/Whiptail
> 
> On 11/7/20, Alan Corey <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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.

Well, gphoto2 has CDK support if you compile it in, then you can use
gphoto2 --config  for a curses configuration frontend.

But with --list-all-config you can also build your own dialog tree
if needed.

Ciao, Marcus