dialog Alternatives

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. gxmessage icon
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    a GTK-based xmessage clone.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    display a message or query in a window (X-based /bin/echo).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
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    This is a tiny hack to display message boxes from Windows batch files and command line programs. There are many like it but the developer didn't find any that was open source, non-copyleft and had no external dependencies (.NET Framework, GTK+, etc.).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    CocoaDialog is an 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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  5. XRCed icon
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    XRCed is a simple resource editor for wxWidgets/wxPython GUI development which supports creating and editing files in XRC format It is written in Python and uses wxPython GUI toolkit.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Anthemion DialogBlocks is a sizer-based resource editor that quickly gets you creating professional-looking dialogs, wizards and frames for deployment on Windows, Linux, Mac or any other supported wxWidgets platform.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    create a menu to run commands.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    Xdialog is designed to be a drop in replacement for the "dialog" or "cdialog" programs. It converts any terminal based program into a program with an X-windows interface. The dialogs are easier to see and use while adding even more functionalities (e.g.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  10. PyDialog icon
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    My problem was that the KDialog code is still not ported to Qt5 and it depends on various Qt4/KDE4 components. The kdialog has big dependency sizes so we made an alternate dialogs like kdialog switches, options.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
    • Qt
     
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