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Remi.b
Remi.b

Reputation: 18219

zenity dialog window with two buttons but no text entry

I would like to create a zenity dialog window with two buttons as only user input.

The following creates a window with two buttons but with a space for a text entry

zenity --entry --title="" --text "Choose A or B" --ok-label="B" --cancel-label="A"

The following creates a window with one button only

zenity --info --title="" --text "Choose A or B" --ok-label="B"

Upvotes: 4

Views: 16348

Answers (4)

Fo Fo
Fo Fo

Reputation: 1

Interesting, the --extra-button thing and the --switch thing...

Button-processing can maybe be confusing to some of us sometimes with zenity. By default, when you leave out the OK and Cancel button, every extra button gets assigned the same '$?'.

Maybe a for-loop is more logical than a while-loop?

Solely reacting upon each button text (important to avoid spatial problems by double quoting!).

At least sth like this appears to give good clear button action results:

ZEN=$(zenity --question --title "Zen Window" --text "How Zen Are You?" --switch --extra-button "Very Zen" --extra-button "Modestly Zen" --extra-button "Not Zen at All")

for z in "${ZEN}"
do
   if [[ "${z}" == "Very Zen" ]]
   then
   echo "Very Zen."
   elif [[ "${z}" == "Modestly Zen" ]]
   then
   echo "Modestly Zen."
   elif [[ "${z}" == "Not Zen at All" ]]
   then
   echo "Not Zen at All."
   fi
done

Upvotes: 0

tmt
tmt

Reputation: 8614

--question is what you are looking for:

zenity --question \
--title="" \
--text "Choose A or B" \
--ok-label="B" \
--cancel-label="A"

You may also try:

zenity --question \
--text="Choose A or B" \
--switch \
--extra-button "A" \
--extra-button "B"

This automatically generates a dialog with just your two extra buttons. (--switch suppresses the default OK and Cancel buttons)

Upvotes: 5

Nexus
Nexus

Reputation: 180

At least recent versions of zenity have an --extra-button flag.

Combining the value of the exit code and the content of stdout, the code can figure out what the user did.

For example:

while true; do
  ans=$(zenity --info --title 'Choose!' \
      --text 'Choose A or B or C' \
      --ok-label A \
      --extra-button B --extra-button C \
      --timeout 3)
  rc=$?
  echo "${rc}-${ans}"
done

Results would look like this:

# timeout
5-
# ESC key
1-
# A button
0-
# B button
1-B
# C button
1-C

Note that the above works similarly other dialogs, though certain combinations may be surprising. Be sure to experiment and handle all sorts of different user interactions.

Upvotes: 10

dharmi_kid
dharmi_kid

Reputation: 19

you can also use --info

zenity --info \
--title="A or B" \
--text "Choose A or B" \
--ok-label="B" \
--cancel-label="A"

Upvotes: -1

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