ncruces / zenity

Zenity dialogs for Golang, Windows, macOS
https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/ncruces/zenity
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Zenity dialogs for Golang, Windows and macOS

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This repo includes:

Implemented dialogs:

Behavior on Windows, macOS and other Unixes might differ slightly. Some of that is intended (reflecting platform differences), other bits are unfortunate limitations.

Installing

The Go package:

go get github.com/ncruces/zenity@latest

The zenity command on macOS/WSL using Homebrew 🍺:

brew install ncruces/tap/zenity

The zenity command on Windows using Scoop 🍨:

scoop install https://ncruces.github.io/scoop/zenity.json

The zenity command on macOS/Windows, if you have Go:

go install github.com/ncruces/zenity/cmd/zenity@latest

Or download the latest release.

Using

For the Go package, consult the documentation and examples.

The zenity command does its best to be compatible with the GNOME version.\ Consult the documentation and man page of that command.

Why?

Benefits of the Go package:

Zenity wrappers

Zenity wrappers for languages other than Go can benefit from our zenity command. On Unix (Linux, FreeBSD, etc) they can use the original tool, and on Windows/macOS they may use the command from this repo for portability.

Examples:

Credits

I'd like to thank all contributors, but @gen2brain in particular for dlgs, which was instrumental to the Windows port of zenity.