2020-01-09 08:26:58 -05:00
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# Zenity dialogs for Golang, Windows and macOS
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[![GoDoc](https://godoc.org/github.com/ncruces/zenity?status.svg)](https://godoc.org/github.com/ncruces/zenity)
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This repo includes both a cross-platform Go package providing [Zenity](https://help.gnome.org/users/zenity/)-like dialogs,
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as well as a *“port”* of the `zenity` command to both Windows and macOS based on that library.
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**This is a work in progress.**
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Lots of things are missing.
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For now, these are the only implemented dialogs:
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* message (error, info, question, warning); and
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* file selection.
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Behavior on Windows, macOS and other UNIXes might differ sliglty.
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Some of that is intended (reflecting platform differences),
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other bits are unfortunate limitations,
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others still open to be fixed.
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## Why?
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There are a bunch of other dialog packages for Go.
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Why reinvent this particular wheel?
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#### Requirements:
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* no `cgo` (see [benefits](https://dave.cheney.net/2016/01/18/cgo-is-not-go), mostly cross-compilation)
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* no main loop (or other threading requirements)
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* no initialization
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* on Windows:
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* Explorer shell not required (works in Server Core)
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* no other dependencies
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* Unicode support
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* on macOS:
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* only dependency is `osascript`, JXA
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* on other UNIXes:
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* wraps either one of `matedialog`, `qarma`, `zenity` (in that order of preference)
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* no command line support
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