Free dialog 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.

cdialog allows you to present a variety of questions or display messages using dialog boxes from a shell script.
Starting point for cdialog v.0.9a was dialog-0.6c. Many new features like as Resolution-independence, Auto-sizing, Maximizing, more widget on the same screen (multi-widget), etc. were added. New widget are tailbox and tailbox-in-background. Here are the options:
Usage: dialog
{ --and-widget }
At the moment, mouse support with libgpm cant be added because it doest implement the wtimeout() function of ncurses. Wtimeout() is needed to have more widgets (es.tailbox) cooperating on the same screen... I dont know if with newer versions of libgpm will be possible
Enhancements:
- A check for defunct input/output connections was added.
- Other minor fixes were made.

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

Gtk2::Ex::Dialogs::Message provides a simple message dialog.

SYNOPSIS

use Gtk2::Ex::Dialogs::Message ( 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::Message::parent_window = $window;

# now popup a new dialog ( blocking the main loop if there is one )
new_and_run
Gtk2::Ex::Dialogs::Message ( title => "Dialog Title",
text => "This is a simple 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_show
Gtk2::Ex::Dialogs::Message ( title => "Uhm",
text => "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).

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).

Gtk2::Ex::Dialogs::ChooseDirectory is a Perl module that provides a file selection dialog.

SYNOPSIS

use Gtk2::Ex::Dialogs::ChooseDirectory ( destroy_with_parent => TRUE,
modal => TRUE );

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

# now popup a new dialog for selecting an existing directory
my $dir = select Gtk2::Ex::Dialogs::ChooseDirectory ( "/path/to/somewhere" );

# ok, now we need to create a new directory (doesnt actually make
# the directory), returns a dir that does not exist.
my $dir = create Gtk2::Ex::Dialogs::ChooseDirectory ( "/path/to/somewhere" );

This module provides a simple file chooser api that wraps Gtk2::FileChooser objectively. The objective is a simple ways to prompt a user to open or save a file.

OPTIONS

All public methods (and the entire class) support the following options:

title => STRING

The text string to use as the title of the dialog window. Defaults to either "Select" or "Create" based on the action context.

path => STRING

The path to a file or directory to initialize the dialog with. Defaults to the current working directory.

parent_window => Gtk2::Window

Reference to the main application window.

destroy_with_parent => BOOL
When the parent_window is destroyed, what do we do? Defaults to FALSE.
modal => BOOL
Does this dialog make the parent_window freeze while the dialog exists. Defaults to FALSE.
must_exist => BOOL
The end-user must supply a path to an existing file or directory. Should the end-user provide a non-existant path, the dialog will be respawned until an existing file is chosen. Defaults to FALSE.

Waiho is a simple FTP client for GNUstep, designed to be easy to use.
It is far from finished but is quite stable and usable.
1- Refactoring the code to use a Connections Pool
2- Use ftpparse library from DJ Bernstein instead of the current code
3- add correct support for symlinks
4- bookmark dialog
5- progression bar in the NSTableViews upload/download
6- add state line of the ftp dialog
7- directory deletion
8- directory transfert (recursive)
9- synchronisation between local/remote directories
10- resume (upload/download)
11- internationalization (french, etc.)
12- create a "ftp" service
Enhancements:
- Change the name of GSFTP to Waiho (means "to put something someplace, leave something" in Hawaiian) -- thanks to Brice Favre for the idea.