Alternatives to xdialog for all platforms with any license

NirCmd

NirCmd is a small utility that allows you to do many useful tasks from command-line, without displaying any user interface: change your display settings, turn off your...

Free Windows
Command line interface Add a feature

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Zenity

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

Free Open Source Linux
Portable Add a feature

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Yad

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...

Free Open Source Windows Linux
Portable Scripting Add a feature

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wxFormBuilder

wxWidgets is an excellent framework that enables the creation of multi-platform applications with and without a graphical user interface. There are several applications...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Rad Add a feature

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whiptail

display dialog boxes from shell scripts

Free Open Source Linux
No features added Add a feature

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VisualWX

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...
- 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.
Free Open Source Windows Linux
Rad Add a feature

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F2KO CMD Tools

A bunch of command line tools for Windows for tasks ranging from encryption to simulating key presses and mouse clicks. Each tool is its own .exe file.

Free Windows
Command line interface Portable Add a feature

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KDialog

Show KDE dialog boxes from shell scripts

Free Open Source Linux
No features added Add a feature

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Batch MessageBox

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...

Free Open Source Windows
Command line interface Portable User interface Add a feature

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Tron

Tron is a console application which simulates user intervention for otherwise unscriptable applications.
- Discontinued The program is no longer updated. Last version, 0.9.10, released in September 2011, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.
Free Windows
Scripting Add a feature

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dialog

display dialog boxes from shell scripts. Curses based. Works in console mode.

Free Open Source Windows Linux
No features added Add a feature

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MessagePop

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...

Free Windows
Portable Add a feature

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xmessage

display a message or query in a window (X-based /bin/echo)

Free Open Source Linux
No features added Add a feature

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gxmessage

a GTK-based xmessage clone

Free Open Source Windows Linux
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9menu

create a menu to run commands

Free Open Source Linux
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