Free dialog box software for linux

Though similar in style to CDK, Dialog is different, being a script-interpreter which provides a set of curses widgets. Widgets are objects whose appearance and behavior can be customized. There is a much-reduced variation of dialog, called lxdialog, which is used in Linux kernel configuration.
Dialog allows you to present a variety of questions or display messages using dialog boxes from a shell script. Several types of dialog boxes are implemented including: calendar, checklist, file-selection, gauge, info, input, menu, message, radiolist, tailbox, text, time, yes/no.
Enhancements:
- change license to LGPL.
- change naming convention in dlg_colors.h to make it easier to read, and incidentally remove the last chunk of code preventing relicense.
- add --passwordform (request by Reznic Valery).
- modify pause.c, msgbox.c to work with --help-button.
- modify formbox.c, inputbox.c, textbox.c, yesno.c to work with extra button (adapted from Reznic Valery patch).
- modify dlg_exit_label(), dlg_yes_labels() and dlg_ok_label() to allow help-button (prompted by Reznic Valery patch).
- add zh_CN.po file from http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/maint/dialog/
- provide alternate interfaces for dialog_checklist(), dialog_menu() and dialog_form(): dlg_checklist(), dlg_menu() and dlg_form() (discussion with Michael Gebetsroither).
- add/use dlg_result_key() to allow binding function keys to the buttons.
- implement user-definable key bindings in the rc-file.
- modify inline cases for KEY_xxx values to use binding tables in new module dlg_keys.c
- add several DIALOG_STATE items to the rc file: aspect, separate_widget, tab_len and visit_links
- add a tab-adjustment to dlg_print_text() to improve solution from 2005/10/30, e.g., in the samples/form* scripts.
- fix an off-by-one which made mouse-selection not work for menu items past the first page (GenToo #112024, patch by Harald van Dijk).

Gtkdialog is a small utility for fast and easy GUI building.
It can be used to create dialog boxes for almost any interpreted and compiled programs which is a very attractive feature since the developer does not have to learn various GUI languages for the miscellaneous programming languages.
Enhancements:
- This version contains some minor bugfixes and enhancements.

media-box is a program to watch all kind of multimedia files using a computer.
It suports playing DVD video, VideoCD, various movie files, Audio CD, various music files and watching various still pictures.
Main goal of this project is to have a dedicated computer in your living room by replacing your Hi-Fi component (DVD-player, CD-player). media-box runs in a linux environment so the need for computer power is very low.
Prefered system is a computer with at least 466MHz Celeron with 128MB of ram. Disk space is minimal, it works on 1GB partition but it can sure fit on a partition of 150MB or even less.
As it considers the sound output it is considered to have a sound card with digital out capabilities, so you can easily connect your computer with a dedicated external Dolby Digital receiver, but this is optional.
Graphics card should have a TV-Out feature, so you can watch your media content on TV. For getting the remote control over the whole program, you should make a hardware receiver or you can even buy one. Just make sure it is lirc compatible.
Software used to make this hardware work:
- debian - linux distribution
- xine-lib - library to play media content
- ati.2 - ATI drivers for XFree86 4.2.1 - to get TVOut working
- alsa - SB Live! drivers to get digital out sound
- lirc - remote control software
Enhancements:
- created upgrade script so on pressing n in main window will start an upgrade
- fixed start.sh script to use the /media-box/XF86Config-4 file
- size of screen is now calculated from the width and height of the back.jpg picture (was fixed to 800x600) - beware tvout works only on 800x600.
- fixed background of movie so it is black now. Subtitles of new xine lib displayed background image.
- added new types of files to play (based on extension)
- audio
- aac
- mp4

dialog-mp3-list generates an organized list of your CDs and directories of MP3s. It shows a numbered list of MP3s with information on their encoding speed and track lengths. It uses Dialog/XDialog and Latex to create lists in .tex, .ps, and .pdf formats.

You can modify the source file .tex and then you can compile it with the commands:

latex lista-mp3-albuns.tex
dvips lista-mp3-albuns.dvi -o
ps2pdf lista-mp3-albuns.ps

KMilo - Compact Dialog is a KDE patch that makes the default sound dialog look a bit less huge and BLUE.

Tested with 3.5.5 and 3.5.6

Diago is the dialog-based system to easily create nested menus, execute programs and start connections to remote systems in the console sessions. This project is released under the terms of GPL v3 or later.

While dialog is good to create a single… well, dialog… in the console mode, Diago extends it adding a possibility to quickly and easily create a nested menu.

Open Beat Box (OBB) is an open-source beat box ( a virtual drum machine ).
We are still in an early stage of development but we aim full drum machine functionalities.
Main features:
- Highly customizable graphical interface, including bitmap skins and variable shape widgets.
- Floating tools : realy interesting with multi-screen.
- Skin aware help system that update the images acording to the skin you curently use.
- Plug-in architecture for sound effects.
- Portability : Windows, Mac, Unix
- Cross-platform file compatiblitily.
- Real-time preview and offline rendering for realy complex effect that cant be added real-time on your machine
- Distributed rendering over multiple computers.
- Customizable sound sample packages.
- Customizable keyboard shortcuts.
- Matel Power glove input driver.
Enhancements:
- Code major restructuration
- More performance
- Added XML Skins
- Gui enhancements (drop shadow on labels, centered spinbox label, mousescroll on slidebars)

Gtk2::Ex::Dialogs::ErrorMsg provides a simple error message dialog.

SYNOPSIS

use Gtk2::Ex::Dialogs::ErrorMsg ( destroy_with_parent => TRUE,
modal => TRUE,
no_separator => FALSE );

# do some stuff like creating your apps main $window then,
# to ensure that all messages use the right parent, set it:
$Gtk2::Ex::Dialogs::ErrorMsg::parent_window = $window;

# now popup a new dialog ( blocking the main loop if there is one )
new_and_run Gtk2::Ex::Dialogs::ErrorMsg ( "Simple error message." );

# now popup a somwhat useful dialog that doesnt block any main loop
# but on the other side of the coin, if there is no main loop the
# dialog will be completely unresponsive.
new_and_show Gtk2::Ex::Dialogs::ErrorMsg ( "Use when there is a main loop." );

This module provides a simple dialog api that wraps Gtk2::Dialog objectively. The objective is a clean and simple message dialog (only an "OK" button).