ysei / dialog-fu

Ruby API to conveniently run dialog/kdialog/zenity/yad

Dialog-fu

Version 0.2.1, 2014-07-07

Description

This library provides a high-level API for simple user interfaces with kdialog (forthcoming: dialog/zenity/yad/cocoadialog)

Sometimes, being usable matters. In addition to providing the world’s most intricate command suite and option parsing for expert users, it might be nice to just give a little interface. Not so much that you have to restructure your whole program around some GUI framework, but if you need a filename or a little text entry box or a confirmation box, the "dialog"-like programs can make the job a lot easier.

This is intended to make it easy for you, as a programmer, to make your programs easier to use. Everyone wins, right?

Further documentation can be generated with by running 'rake'

Requirements

Ruby 2.0 or newer

One of:

• kdialog

In the future, other variations of the 'dialog' program will be supported.

Installation

gem install dialog-fu

Use

require 'dialog-fu'

Dialog.autosetup  # Figure out what implementation to use

Dialog.messagebox("Hello, world")

License

Copyright © 2011-14 Chris Riddoch

See lgpl-3.0.txt for license details