Zenity is

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and a

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program that allows the execution of

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es in command-line and

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Description

Like tools such as

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

Cross-platform compatibility

, Zenity is available for Linux, BSD and Windows. A Zenity port to Mac OS X is available in

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and Homebrew. As of 2018, Zenity ports for Windows are available
zenity-windows
(based on version 3.20.0) an
winzenity
(based on 3.8.0 / statically linked) Zenity does not possess any built-in scripting capabilities and it must, therefore, rely on an

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for processing. It is found that for the creation of 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

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in combination with the PyZenity library.

Examples

Python example

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!")

POSIX shell script example

#!/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

Windows shell script example

@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

References

External links

* GNOME Applications GNOME Developer Tools GTK Sun Microsystems software {{free-software-stub