zenity-wrapper

Description

What did you expect with that name? Zenity-wrapper is a ruby wrapper over the zenity utilily.

I wrote it because I need it for a personal project. It is far from complete, it could only open list and message dialog boxes. Anyway I release it because it could be helpfull to somebody.

Install

gem install zenity-wrapper
apt-get zenity

Usage

You should check zenity documentation first.

Simple example

require 'zenity'

Zenity::Message.new(:error, "content text").proceed

General options

A big error message:

m = Zenity::Message.new(:error, "content text")
m.title = "Big error message"
m.width = 600
m.height = 400
m.proceed

Exit Status

Zenity defines the following module constants:

  • OK
  • CANCEL
  • ERROR
  • EXPIRED

And the following methods for each dialogs classes:

  • exit_status
  • ok?
  • cancel?
  • error?
  • expired?

A dumb usage example:

m = Zenity::Message.new(:question, "your question")
answer = m.proceed
if m.exit_status == Zenity::OK
  puts answer
elsif m.expired?
  puts "too late..."
end

Returned Value

The proceed method returns a String.

Calendar

TODO

File Select

TODO

Notification

TODO

List

list = List.new(columns = ["Reference", "Title"],
                data = ['1 "title 1"', '2 "title 2"'])
# You could modify the separator
list.separator = "---"
# You could modify the returned column(s)
list.print_column = "ALL"
puts list.proceed

Message

Message.new(:error, "This is an error message").proceed

Message.new(:info, "This is an info message").proceed

Message.new(:warning, "This is a warning message").proceed

answer = Message.new(:question, "This is a question message").proceed
puts answer

Progress Bar

TODO

Entry

TODO

Text Info

TODO

Dependencies

  • ruby >= 1.9.3
  • zenity >= 2.30

License

MIT

Copyright (c) 2013 Xavier Nayrac

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
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"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
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Questions and/or Comments

Feel free to email Xavier Nayrac with any questions.