Create GUI for batch commands

[BrBlazer]

Hi,

Is there any software that we can create a simple gui to execute batch commands? I just need file copying, renaming and etc. Since I don't know any programming language, but can write simple batch commands, I would like to create a window where clicking a button would execute a command attributed to that button. It can be anything as simple as a white screen with the button or a little more jazzed up with a background image.

Kindly,

Blazer

 

[Heretic]

What about good old text based menus?

:Menu
echo What do you want to do?
echo 1) Option 1
echo 2) Option 2
echo 3) Option 3
echo 4) Exit
echo.
choice /C:1234 /M Choice?

if ERRORLEVEL 4 (
goto :End
)

if ERRORLEVEL 3 (
goto :Option3
)

if ERRORLEVEL 2 (
goto :Option2
)

if ERRORLEVEL 1 (
goto :Option1
)


:Option1
:::: Do stuff here


:::: Return to menu
goto :Menu


:Option2
:::: Do stuff here


:::: Return to menu
goto :Menu


:Option3
:::: Do stuff here


:::: Return to menu
goto :Menu


:::: End of file. Pause and clean up
:End
echo.
echo Bye, bye!
echo.

pause

cls

When doing your batch scripts like this, make sure to use plenty of "go to" commands as scripts will otherwise simply run through from to to bottom.

 

[BrBlazer]

Hello,

Thanks for your help. I'm looking for something like this visual basic window:

When you click the "button 1", it'll execute a batch file, when you click "button 2", it'll execute a different batch file.

 

[mgh]

The example would require a programming langauge - Visual Basic

 

[Tisor]

Have you tried Google, mate?

http://net-informations.com/q/faq/batfile.html

 

[BrBlazer]

Yes I have, otherwise I would not have bothered creating a topic here

Also thanks for your link, but it's nothing like what I need, those are the kind of results you would get from a google search .

 

[BrBlazer]

The example would require a programming langauge - Visual Basic

But is there something GUI oriented, like for example, FS code is a programming language, the ASM file, but we have a GUI to create it (3ds max/gmax). Is there some GUI that is the equivalent of 3ds max/gmax to a programming language?

 

[pfabian]

Visual Studio partially caters to that, several other IDEs also do, like Eclipse or NetBeans.

But it's not as simple as "make a button launch bat"

 

[mgh]

But is there something GUI oriented, like for example, FS code is a programming language, the ASM file, but we have a GUI to create it (3ds max/gmax). Is there some GUI that is the equivalent of 3ds max/gmax to a programming language?

As we have explained those GUIs are all written a a coding langauge - most likely C/C++

 

[BrBlazer]

Thanks everyone, so the answer to my question then is... No, there isn't any software that we can create a simple GUI to execute batch commands.

 

[Heretic]

What's wrong with my text based menu solution?

 

[JRobinson]

What's wrong with my text based menu solution?

Nothing at all, I've been using menus like that to call batch file "modules" for years now. Frankly I can't see where selecting a menu item to run a batch file is any different than clicking a button to run it. Here's another menu system BTW that uses "Set" rather than "Choice", you have to press Enter after you type your selection though:

@echo off
:menu
cls
echo.
echo.
echo  Select an option from the list below by pressing the
echo  corresponding number key on your keyboard followed
echo  by the Enter key:
echo.
echo.
echo  [1] Run batch file 1
echo  [2] Run batch file 2
echo  [3] Run batch file 3
echo  [4] Run batch file 4
echo  [5] Run batch file 5
echo  [6] Run batch file 6
echo.
echo  [7] Exit
set /p selection=

if %selection%==1 call bat1.bat
if %selection%==2 call bat2.bat
if %selection%==3 call bat3.bat
if %selection%==4 call bat4.bat
if %selection%==5 call bat5.bat
if %selection%==6 call bat6.bat
if %selection%==7 exit
goto menu

 

[Heretic]

Nothing at all, I've been using menus like that to call batch file "modules" for years now. Frankly I can't see where selecting a menu item to run a batch file is any different than clicking a button to run it. Here's another menu system BTW that uses "Set" rather than "Choice", you have to press Enter after you type your selection though:
...

That works as well as long as you use different indexes or names for the selection variable in potential sub menus.
The errorlevel based solution is a bit more practical in that regard because it does away with a variable. It's also useful in if-then constructs.

Too bad that Batch is horribly ineffective for some tasks, otherwise I would enjoy doing scripts in it much more. (Batch's biggest advantage is that it's an out of the box solution, other than Python, Perl or whatever they're called. And PowerShell, well...no.)

 

[charlymorton]

Thanks everyone, so the answer to my question then is... No, there isn't any software that we can create a simple GUI to execute batch commands.

You can create a GUI using Windows Forms in PowerShell and have to PowerShell script run the bat file. Although, if you do it in PowerShell, you can make the PowerShell script run whatever you want the batch file to run.

 

[JRobinson]

That works as well as long as you use different indexes or names for the selection variable in potential sub menus.
The errorlevel based solution is a bit more practical in that regard because it does away with a variable. It's also useful in if-then constructs.)

Actually having the %selection% variable set can come in handy later on in the batch file (or a called batch file) at times. But yeah, I get what you're saying, I usually use pretty descriptive variable names, some I wouldn't post here.