guile-zenity

Version: 0.1

Zenity is a command line tool that displays simple dialog boxes.

This library creates scheme procedures that build up a zenity command line, call it then parse the result and return it as scheme data.

installation

To use this you need to install the zenity program.

After than you need to move the zenity.scm file of this repo into your GUILE_LOAD_PATH .

To test that it's working try this:

$ guile scheme@(guile-user)> (use-modules (zenity)) scheme@(guile-user)> (zenity-info "Hello world!") Gtk-Message: GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent. This is discouraged. $1 = #t

the warning can be ignored.

examples

There are two examples programs:

guile -l birthday.scm : This programs asks your date of birth and sometimes wishes a happy birthday.

: This programs asks your date of birth and sometimes wishes a happy birthday. guile -l list-example.scm : This program demonstrates using the list dialog (since it is a bit more complex to call than others).

: This program demonstrates using the list dialog (since it is a bit more complex to call than others). guile -l todo.scm : A more fun list example that lets you manage a todo list.

: A more fun list example that lets you manage a todo list. guile -l forms-example.scm : Shows how to use the forms dialog.

: Shows how to use the forms dialog. guile -l egg-timer.scm : Demonstrates the progress-bar feature - select a length of time then wait that long.

: Demonstrates the progress-bar feature - select a length of time then wait that long. guile -l guix-helper.scm : A sample program that helps build a guix package definition from forms filled in.

If you get an error like this:

ERROR: In procedure scm-error: ERROR: no code for module (zenity)

try running it this way:

GUILE_LOAD_PATH=`pwd` guile -l examples/egg-timer.scm

that should help guile find the library.

functions

Calendar Dialog

(zenity-calendar message)

Shows a calendar for the user to pick a date from. The return value will be #f on Cancel, and an assoc list with fields day , month , year on success.

Color Selection Dialog

(zenity-color-selection #:key (color #f) (show-palette #f))

This opens a color picker, it returns strings of the form "rgb(0,1,2)". You can preset the color by name e.g. #:color "blue" . By default it is a HSV color picker but you can change it to a palette by passing #:show-palette #t .

File Selection Dialog

(zenity-file-selection title #:key (multiple #f) (directory #f) (save #f) (filename #f))

This opens up a dialog for choosing a file. There are keyword options to allow selecting multiple files, restricting it to directories only or making a new filename to save data to. A new keyword filename added to let you preset which directory the file might be chosen from.

Warning: A limitation of the way zenity outputs the file list (separated by the | character) is that this gives bad output on files with | in the name.

Forms Dialog

(zenity-forms title text layout)

This produces a form built out of 'layout', layout is an assoc list of (<type> . <name>) pairs. The form field types are: entry , password , calendar . The field names are just strings.

The return value is a list: each piece of data entered by the user.

Warning: A limitation of the way zenity outputs data (separated by the , character) is that this will error if any data inputted contains the , character.

List Dialog

(zenity-list message columns rows) (zenity-checklist message columns rows)

Pass in list of columns and then a list of rows to let display and let an item be chosen from a list.

The return value of zenity-list is the selected row. The return value of zenity-checklist is a list of the string versions of the first column of the selected items.

Message Dialog

(zenity-error message) (zenity-info message) (zenity-question message) (zenity-warning message)

Display a simple informational dialog box. The -question and -warning variants return a boolean for whether OK or Cancel was pressed.

Scale Dialog

(zenity-scale message #:key (value #f) (minimum #f) (maximum #f) (step #f) (hide-value #f))

This dialog gives a slider to enable picking a number in a range.

Password Dialog, Text Entry Dialog

(zenity-password message) (zenity-entry message)

Asks the user for some input, the return value is #f on Cancel or the text that was inputted.

(zenity-pulsate message #:key (auto-close #f) (no-cancel #f) ) (zenity-progress message #:key (value #f) (auto-close #f) (no-cancel #f))

These display a progress bar and return a new procedure while the dialog is still open.

For pulsate the function returned is simply a thunk that you call when the computation is finished, this enables the Ok button.

For progress the function returned takes one argument, a number from 0 to 100 indicating the progress of the operation. The Ok button appears when it reaches 100.

Notes:

All these functions now accept the #:width and #:height keys to set the size of the dialog boxes.

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