xdialog Alternatives

xdialog is described as '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' and is a Shell in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to xdialog for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD and Python apps. The best xdialog alternative is NirCmd, which is free. Other great apps like xdialog are Zenity, Modern Message Box Generator, Yad and wxFormBuilder.

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  1. xmessage

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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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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    gxmessage

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    a GTK-based xmessage clone.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     

  4. Batch MessageBox

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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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  5. Tron

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    Tron is a console application which simulates user intervention for otherwise unscriptable applications.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     

  6. CocoaDialog

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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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    XRCed

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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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  9. 9menu

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    create a menu to run commands.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     

  10. Gtkdialog

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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
     
  11. PyDialog icon

    PyDialog

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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
    PyDialog screenshot 1
     
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    DialogBlocks

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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
    DialogBlocks screenshot 1
     
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