dialog AlternativesShells and other similar apps like dialog

dialog is described as 'Display dialog boxes from shell scripts. Curses based. Works in console mode' and is a Shell in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to dialog for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD and Python apps. The best dialog alternative is Zenity, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like dialog are Modern Message Box Generator, Glade, Yad and KDialog.

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  1. Zenity icon

    Zenity

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    Zenity is a tool that allows you to display GTK dialog boxes in commandline and shell scripts.

    22 Zenity alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Zenity screenshot 1
     

    • Zenity is the most popular Linux alternative to dialog.

    • Zenity is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to dialog.

    • Zenity is Free and Open Sourcedialog is also Free and Open Source
  2. Modern Message Box Generator icon

    Modern Message Box Generator

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    Generates a customizable "Task Dialog" box - a more modern version of the old Windows message box.'

    20 Modern Message Box Generator alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Main window
     

    • Modern Message Box Generator is the most popular Windows alternative to dialog.

    • Modern Message Box Generator is Free and Open Sourcedialog is also Free and Open Source
  4. Glade icon

    Glade

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    Glade is a RAD (Rapid Application Development) tool to enable quick & easy development of user interfaces for the GTK+ toolkit.

    17 Glade alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Login ui using glade
     

    • Glade is the most popular Mac alternative to dialog.

    • Glade is Free and Open Sourcedialog is also Free and Open Source
  5. Yad icon

    Yad

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    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.

    22 Yad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Sample dialog with tabs from YAD's SourceForge.
     
  6. KDialog icon

    KDialog

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    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).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    KDialog screenshot 1
     
  7. wxDev-C++ icon

    wxDev-C++

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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Bloodshed Dev-C++
    wxDev-C++ screenshot 1
     
  9. easybashgui icon

    easybashgui

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    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     

  10. whiptail

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    display dialog boxes from shell scripts.

    22 whiptail alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  11. wxGlade icon

    wxGlade

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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    A sample session
     
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    wxSmith

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    wxSmith is a Code::Blocks plugin for RAD editing of wxWidgets applications.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Code::Blocks
    wxSmith screenshot 1
     

  13. VisualWX

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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    VisualWX screenshot 1
     
  14. MessagePop icon

    MessagePop

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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Default message
     
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