Re: Playing with code found on Perlmonks

I'm surprised Xdialog doesn't have a specific direct filename mode. I installed it to try it out, and (for me, anyway) it dragged in gtk 1.2 libraries, so I poked around for a gtk 2.0 equivalent and found zenity, which has handy "--file-selection --save" options.

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Re^2: Playing with code found on Perlmonks by oko1 (Deacon) on Apr 15, 2008 at 23:58 UTC
That's really odd - I thought (based on what it looks like) that 'Xdialog' was one of the old guard; the Athena Toolkit or something like that. Bleh. :( On the other hand, modifying it to use none of those libraries, at least for the dialog end, is trivial: change 'Xdialog' to 'dialog', remove the 'xterm -e' line from the 'vi' invocation, and launch the whole script as 'xterm -e pmedit'. -- Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. -- HG Wells	[reply]

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Re^2: Playing with code found on Perlmonks
by oko1 (Deacon) on Apr 15, 2008 at 23:58 UTC

That's really odd - I thought (based on what it looks like) that 'Xdialog' was one of the old guard; the Athena Toolkit or something like that. Bleh. :(

On the other hand, modifying it to use none of those libraries, at least for the dialog end, is trivial: change 'Xdialog' to 'dialog', remove the 'xterm -e' line from the 'vi' invocation, and launch the whole script as 'xterm -e pmedit'.


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