Zenity

Like tools such as whiptail and dialog, Zenity allows easy creation of GUIs, though it has fewer features than more complex GUI-creation tools.

{{Blockquote

| Other scripting languages such as Perl and Python can be used to construct full-scale GUI applications, but the zenity program enables a shell script to interact with a GUI user.... [The] user interface is not as refined as one that could be provided by a full-featured GUI application, but it is perfectly suitable for simple interactions.

| Chris Tyler

}}

{{As of|2012}}, Zenity is available for Linux, BSD and Windows. A Zenity port to Mac OS X is available in MacPorts and Homebrew.

As of 2018, Zenity ports for Windows are available: [https://github.com/kvaps/zenity-windows/ zenity-windows] (based on version 3.20.0) and [https://github.com/maravento/vault/tree/master/winzenity winzenity] (based on 3.8.0 / statically linked)

Zenity does not possess any built-in scripting capabilities and it must, therefore, rely on an interpreter for processing. To create a script that runs on more than one platform without extensive modifications, it would be best to use an interpreter that is available on the widest range of operating systems. One option is Python in combination with the PyZenity library.

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from PyZenity import InfoMessage

from PyZenity import Question

from PyZenity import ErrorMessage

choice = Question('Please press a button.')

if choice:

InfoMessage('You pressed Yes!')

else:

ErrorMessage('You pressed No!')

1. !/bin/sh

if zenity --question --text="Please press a button."; then

zenity --info --text="You pressed Yes\!"

else

zenity --error --text="You pressed No\!"

fi

@echo off

zenity --question --ok-label="Yes" --cancel-label="No" --text="Please press a button."

if %ERRORLEVEL% == 1 goto error

zenity --info --text="You pressed Yes!"

goto end

:error

zenity --error --text="You pressed No!"

:end

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• {{Official website|https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Projects/Zenity}}

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