CocoaDialog Alternatives

CocoaDialog is described as 'OS X application that allows the use of common GUI controls such as file selectors, text input, progress bars, yes/no confirmations and more with a command-line application. It requires no knowledge of Cocoa, and is ideal for use in shell and Perl scripts (or' and is a Shell in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to CocoaDialog for Linux, Windows, Mac, Bloodshed Dev-C++ and Code::Blocks. The best CocoaDialog alternative is Glade, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like CocoaDialog are Zenity, Yad, easybashgui and KDialog.

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Glade
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Free • Open Source
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16 Glade alternatives
Glade is a RAD (Rapid Application Development) tool to enable quick & easy development of user interfaces for the GTK+ toolkit.
- - Glade is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to CocoaDialog.
- - Glade is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to CocoaDialog.
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Gtk
Rad
Discontinued
The tool is not developed anymore as it cannot handle Gtk4.Instead Cambalache UI Maker is being developed but it still needs funding.
Zenity
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Free • Open Source
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Linux
20 Zenity alternatives
Zenity is a tool that allows you to display GTK dialog boxes in commandline and shell scripts.
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1. PortableZenity can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
2. Command line interfaceZenity either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
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Yad
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Free • Open Source
Linux
20 Yad alternatives
Yad (yet another dialog) is a fork of Zenity with many improvements, such as custom buttons, additional dialogs, pop-up menu in notification icon and more. It's useful for creating quick and easy GUIs for shell and batch scripting.
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Yad Features
1. Support for scriptingYad supports scripts and macros to automate or customize tasks.
2. PortableYad can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
easybashgui
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Free • Open Source
Linux
20 easybashgui alternatives
Bash functions library for *BSD and GNU/Linux that aims to give simple GUI functions using yad, gtkdialog, kdialog, zenity, Xdialog, (c)dialog, whiptail or bash builtins depending on KDE or GNOME running or not, Yad/Gtkdialog/Xdialog installed or not and, eventually, X...
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1. Command line interfaceeasybashgui either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
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KDialog
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Free • Open Source
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21 KDialog alternatives
kdialog allows you to display dialog boxes from shell scripts. The syntax is very much inspired from the "dialog" command (which shows text mode dialogs).
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KDialog Features
1. Command line interfaceKDialog either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
KDE
wxFormBuilder
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19 wxFormBuilder alternatives
wxWidgets is an excellent framework that enables the creation of multi-platform applications with and without a graphical user interface. There are several applications that help create dialogs visually, even so, some practical problems have led me to start the development of a...
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Rad
C++
wxDev-C++
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Free • Open Source
Windows
Bloodshed Dev-C++
15 wxDev-C++ alternatives
wxDev-C++ is an extension of Bloodshed Dev-C++ by Colin Laplace et. al. This program helps you to create dialogs and frames for wxWidgets visually using a form designer.
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C++
Discontinued
The project is no longer developed. Last version, 7.4.2, released in June 2012, can be still downloaded from the official website.
wxGlade
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16 wxGlade alternatives
wxGlade is a GUI designer written in Python with the popular GUI toolkit wxPython, that helps you create wxWidgets/wxPython user interfaces. At the moment it can generate Python, C++, Perl, Lisp and XRC (wxWidgets' XML resources) code.
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C++
whiptail
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Linux
20 whiptail alternatives
display dialog boxes from shell scripts.
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1. Command line interfacewhiptail either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
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wxSmith
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Code::Blocks
16 wxSmith alternatives
wxSmith is a Code::Blocks plugin for RAD editing of wxWidgets applications.
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GUI Designer
VisualWX
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16 VisualWX alternatives
Visualwx aims to be the ultimate RAD tool, designed for c++, python, perl, ruby, lua and wxWidgets. Still there are many things to do, but we've achieved considerable progress.
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Rad
C++
Ruby
Discontinued
Last version seems to be VisualWx 0.87.6.0 Alfa April 13 2007, see http://visualwx.altervista.org/downloads.php. There is no version for Python 3.
MessagePop
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
15 MessagePop alternatives
MessagePop is a simple application designed to help you convey a message to the computer user. The program allows you to specify the message text and the other parameters from the command line.
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MessagePop Features
1. Command line interfaceMessagePop either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
2. PortableMessagePop can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.