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# Zenity dialogs for Golang, Windows and macOS
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This repo includes both a cross-platform Go package providing [Zenity](https://help.gnome.org/users/zenity/)-like dialogs,
as well as a *“port”* of the `zenity` command to both Windows and macOS based on that library.
**This is a work in progress.**
Lots of things are missing.
For now, these are the only implemented dialogs:
* [message](https://github.com/ncruces/zenity/wiki/Message-dialog) (error, info, question, warning)
* [file selection](https://github.com/ncruces/zenity/wiki/File-Selection-dialog)
* [color selection](https://github.com/ncruces/zenity/wiki/Color-Selection-dialog)
Behavior on Windows, macOS and other Unixes might differ slightly.
Some of that is intended (reflecting platform differences),
other bits are unfortunate limitations,
others still are open to be fixed.
## Why?
There are a bunch of other dialog packages for Go.\
Why reinvent this particular wheel?
#### Requirements:
* no `cgo` (see [benefits](https://dave.cheney.net/2016/01/18/cgo-is-not-go), mostly cross-compilation)
* no main loop (or other threading requirements)
* no initialization
* on Windows:
* no additional dependencies
* Explorer shell not required
* works in Server Core
* Unicode support
* WSL/Cygwin/MSYS2 [support](https://github.com/ncruces/zenity/wiki/Zenity-for-WSL,-Cygwin,-MSYS2)
* on macOS:
* only dependency is `osascript`
* on other Unixes:
* wraps either one of `zenity`, `qarma`, `matedialog`