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Model Specific Forums => Sharp Zaurus => Zaurus - pdaXrom => Topic started by: daniel3000 on November 09, 2006, 05:46:14 pm

Title: Gui Dialog Tool?
Post by: daniel3000 on November 09, 2006, 05:46:14 pm: Hello,

does anyone know a command line tool, preferably based on GTK, which allows to present BUI dialogs to the user with some limited interaction?

I.e. a tool which can be used from within a shell script to let the user interact with the shell script without letting the user ever see that it IS a shell script?

Simple ialogs like "some text [OK]" and "some text [Yes] [No]" would be enough.

Thanks a lot!
daniel
Title: Gui Dialog Tool?
Post by: Meanie on November 09, 2006, 06:01:42 pm: Quote
Hello,

does anyone know a command line tool, preferably based on GTK, which allows to present BUI dialogs to the user with some limited interaction?

I.e. a tool which can be used from within a shell script to let the user interact with the shell script without letting the user ever see that it IS a shell script?

Simple ialogs like "some text [OK]" and "some text [Yes] [No]" would be enough.

Thanks a lot!
daniel
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xdialog is what you want then it's in the feed I believe.
Title: Gui Dialog Tool?
Post by: daniel3000 on November 10, 2006, 06:54:38 am: Great, thanks! :-)
Title: Gui Dialog Tool?
Post by: daniel3000 on November 10, 2006, 10:28:40 am: I have a problem. Maybe someone can help? I have no knowledge about the font system in X, just read a few web pages about it but could not solve the problem:

The font in a msgbox of Xdialog is very small and fixed-width. I'd rather like to have a proportional and larger font.

So I used the Xdialog parameter --rc-file ~/.gtkrc.xdialog and created the file ~/.gtkrc.xdialog:

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style "Default" { fontset = "-misc-*-*-*-*-*-*-200-*-*-*-*-ISO8859-1" } class "*" style "Default"
I used xfontsel to determine that font string in the rc file.

This gives a larger font, but it looks like wrongly decoded Unicode (i.e. alternating characters with dotted boxes like this).
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T_h_i_s_ _i_s_ _a_ _m_s_g_._(underscore representing a rectangular box)

So I changed ISO8859-1 to UTF-8 which made no difference.

Then I found on the web some additional fonts to install here (http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/docbook/de/html/app-artwiz.html).

Basically, I did this:

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Â Â # cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts Â Â # tar xjf /tmp/artwiz-fonts.tar.bz2 Â Â # cd fluxbox-artwiz-fonts Â Â # mkfontdir Â Â # chkfontpath -q -a /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/fluxbox-artwiz-fonts:unscaled
(the last command chkfontpath was not available on pdaXrom, so I omitted it).

Restarting X and xfontsel: The new fonts are NOT shown.

So I am at two dead ends here:

1. How to fix the unicode problem?
2. How to install new fonts?

Any pointers are welcome! Thanks a lot!
daniel
Title: Gui Dialog Tool?
Post by: daniel3000 on November 11, 2006, 04:33:19 pm: Even that (https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=4552&view=findpost&p=31808) did not help.

Xdialog works fine, except that the fonts are too small and I am not able to configure it to use another font.

Is there an alternative to Xdialog I could try?

Thanks
daniel