Take a good look at the GUICS program by Mironenko and Pachepsky.  It
took me only about a week to install SimPotato into it even tho it was
developed for Glycim, which has a very different set of input/output
files.  GUICS uses a system of script files to identify and describe
the contents/format of the input files so it is pretty flexible.  At
least it has many or most of the features that you would want in a
user interface.
 
A version of GUICS can be downloaded thru my web page (with the authors
permission) at http://www.tricity.wsu.edu/htmls/hodges or at
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/4984
 
Tom
 
On  6 Nov 97 at 6:26, White, Jeffrey wrote:
 
> The DSSAT User Interface - A Survey
>
> Most computer users now expect software to have a graphical user
> interface (GUI).  The DSSAT shell and various tools within DSSAT will
> have to evolve to meet this expectation.  To guide future development of
> DSSAT, we have prepared this short survey to solicit user input.  Please
> take the time to fill it in.  We are particularly interested in
> comments.
>
 
> 5.  CAN YOU SUGGEST OTHER CROP MODEL OR SIMILAR INTERFACES THAT WOULD
> PROVIDE USEFUL INSIGHTS INTO DESIGN OF THE DSSAT GUI:
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