Yad Alternatives

Yad is described as '(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' and is a Shell in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Yad for Linux, Windows, Mac and BSD. The best Yad alternative is Zenity, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Yad are Modern Message Box Generator, Glade, wxFormBuilder and KDialog.

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

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    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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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
     
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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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    create a menu to run commands.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • 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

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    Platforms

    • 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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    Gtk-Stream is a tool that takes on its standard input a XML description of what your application should do (spawn a window, add/remove a widget, change a property, add a stylesheet, ...), while outputting events on its standard output.

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    • Linux
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