Zenity Alternatives for Windows

Zenity is not available for Windows but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Windows with similar functionality. The best Windows alternative is wxGlade, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Zenity and 12 are available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Windows alternatives to Zenity are wxFormBuilder, VisualWX, wxDev-C++ and dialog.

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Zenity

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

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wxGlade
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Free • Open Source
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16 alternatives to wxGlade
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.
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wxFormBuilder
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19 alternatives to 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 that help create dialogs visually, even so, some practical problems have led me to start the development of a...
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VisualWX
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Free • Open Source
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16 alternatives to 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 considerable progress.
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VisualWX Features
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Ruby
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.
wxDev-C++
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Free • Open Source
Windows
Bloodshed Dev-C++
15 alternatives to wxDev-C++
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.
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Discontinued
The project is no longer developed. Last version, 7.4.2, released in June 2012, can be still downloaded from the official website.
dialog
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Free • Open Source
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21 alternatives to dialog
display dialog boxes from shell scripts. Curses based. Works in console mode.
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1. Command line interfacedialog either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
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MessagePop
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
15 alternatives to 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 parameters from the command line.
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MessagePop Features
1. Command line interfaceMessagePop either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
2. PortableMessagePop can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
gxmessage
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12 alternatives to gxmessage
a GTK-based xmessage clone.
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gxmessage Features
1. Command line interfacegxmessage either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
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Dialogblocks
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Paid • Proprietary
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17 alternatives to Dialogblocks
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.
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Dialogblocks Features
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xdialog
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22 alternatives to xdialog
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.
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1. Command line interfacexdialog either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
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wxSmith
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Free • Open Source
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Code::Blocks
16 alternatives to wxSmith
wxSmith is a Code::Blocks plugin for RAD editing of wxWidgets applications.
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wxSmith Features
GUI Designer