EasyBashGUI

Simplified way to code bash made GUI frontend dialogs! Check the youtube video:

Introduction to EBG

Easy Bash Gui shortened as EBG, is a Posix compliant Bash functions library that aims to give unified GUI functions using frontends for dialogs boxeds (from the user's point of view are frontends but from the EGB side are backends)

Backends environments GUI

EBG implements different dialogs boxes! You don't have to worry about what environment you are running the script in, as EasyBashGUI will handle this transparently, based on the availability of the backends (frontends).

• Console mode:
  • gum
  • dialog
  • none (= bash)

• Graphical mode:

  • yad
  • gtkdialog
  • kdialog
  • zenity
  • Xdialog

  Since 14.0.0 version you can export "supercontext" env. variable (available values are: supercontext="terminal" or supercontext="windows" ) to set EasyBashGUI to use a terminal (xterm, gnome-terminal, etc. ) with "gum", "dialog" or "none" mode or graphical widgets ("yad", "gtkdialog", "kdialog", "zenity", "Xdialog" ).

Compatibility and runtime

EBG is coded in bash, and uses most of coreutils commands, but it may work in any other environment, because those are just used internally.

Components

EBG is fully modular:

• easybashgui a launcher that will be the endpoint sourced in your scripts
• easybashgui-debug that toggles some debug options managed by the previous component
• easybashgui.lib that managed the backends, called as widget library
• easydialog-legacy stand-alone to create dialog boxes externally (as old nowadays)
• easybashlib used for for optional functions like cleaning temporally working dir

Quick start

source easybashgui

message "hola"

Pretty easy!? right? Read the "Quick start usage" section at the docs/README.md

INSTALLATION

Please check docs/install.md document file!

Documentation

Please check docs/README.md document file!

Packages

There are for some distros : and more!

Credits.

• Thanks to Bash, Yad, Gtkdialog, Xdialog, Kdialog, Zenity, Gum, Cdialog, and Whiptail authors, this library was nothing without their work. Many thanks.
• Thanks to PICCORO McKAY Lenz for his efforts and excellent work on README (and bug hunting too).
• Thanks to zen0bit for first try and README impulse revival.
• Thanks to Frank Dietermann for suggestion though to make EBG "posix compliant" (since vers. 11.X.X )
• Thanks to Jose Joao Dias de Almeida for the makefile tip.
• Thanks to Chris "cgat" for his many ideas and suggestions that lead to version's "5.X.X" EasyBashGUI "revolution".
• Thanks to Davide Depau for his tests and support, and his effort to make EasyBashGUI Debian policy compliant, and finally for his man page.
• Thanks to Christian Prause for his patience and Git support.
• Thanks to Lucio Messina for "Debian policy" tips and support.

Please, let me know if my work has been useful for you.

Vittorio Cagnetta <vaisarger at gmail dot com>

https://github.com/BashGui/easybashgui

LICENSE

GPLv3+, check LICENSE file!