gtk dialogs in linux
Wednesday, December 05, 2007
Bash scripts are fantastic. I could end the post there, but they can be made even better for end users by using one of the simple GUI applications out there that can be run from bash. Here's a great little example (using gtkdialog)that pretties-up the interface for my infrared phone script from this post.
#! /bin/bash
OUTPUT=$(/usr/local/bin/phone-connect $1 | sed -e 's/\(.*\)$/
OUTPUT=$(/usr/local/bin/phone-connect $1 | sed -e 's/\(.*\)$/
Beautiful
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said...
9:01 am
Thanks Dave, that looks like a much easier option to use in bash. No more having to build xml!
Brad Milne
said...
9:11 am
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A much simpler way is to use gtkdialog's successor, zenity
This does all the work for you and has many different dialog box types, great for giving or receiving input in bash scripts. Here is a nice tutorial and man page is here
Enjoy ;)
Dave