CocoaDialog: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 17:59, 24 January 2015

A nice addition to the Apple OSX environment is the option to send message notifications yo the user. The aim of cocoaDialog ^[1] is just that.

Overview

The application 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 Ruby, or Python, or... etc).

Download

Download the script ^[2] and save it into the /usr/bin directory with the name cocoaDialog:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

my $path = "/Applications";
my $cd = "$path/cocoaDialog.app/Contents/MacOS/cocoaDialog";

system($cd, @ARGV);

Please note:

Change the $path entry into the location where you saved the cocoaDialog.app directory.
You need sudo-rights to save the script with the name cocoaDialog in the /usr/bin directory.
You need to chmod the execution right to ag+x
```
sudo chmod ag+x /usr/bin/cocoaDialog
```

Documentation

The documentation contains also examples of the different dialogs. Please read the example carefully because there are some nasty dialog requirements which may cause a dialog to hang into your system.

cocoaDialog, Documentation.

Alternatives

A simplier alternative is terminal-notifier, but has less options than cocoaDialog. Information can be found on this wiki at OSX_Terminal_Notifier.

Reference

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↑ CocoaDialog, Home page on GitHuh of the CocoaDialog. The Application is create by Mark A. Stratman.
↑ Download, Download the Application and Install it into the Applications directory.

[1] CocoaDialog, Home page on GitHuh of the CocoaDialog. The Application is create by Mark A. Stratman.

[2] Download, Download the Application and Install it into the Applications directory.

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 == Download ==
-* [http://mstratman.github.io/cocoadialog/#download], Download the Application and Install it into the Applications directory.
+Download the script <ref>[http://mstratman.github.io/cocoadialog/#download Download], Download the Application and Install it into the Applications directory.</ref> and save it into the ''/usr/bin'' directory with the name ''cocoaDialog'':
+<pre>
+#!/usr/bin/perl
+use strict;
+use warnings;
-== Documentation
+my $path = "/Applications";
+my $cd = "$path/cocoaDialog.app/Contents/MacOS/cocoaDialog";
+system($cd, @ARGV);
+</pre>
+Please note:
+# Change the ''$path'' entry into the location where you saved the ''cocoaDialog.app'' directory.
+# You need sudo-rights to save the script with the name cocoaDialog in the /usr/bin directory.
+# You need to chmod the execution right to ag+x <pre>sudo chmod ag+x /usr/bin/cocoaDialog</pre>
+== Documentation ==
+The documentation contains also examples of the different dialogs. Please read the example carefully because there are some nasty dialog requirements which may cause a dialog to hang into your system.
+* [http://mstratman.github.io/cocoadialog/#documentation cocoaDialog], Documentation.
+== Alternatives ==
+A simplier alternative is terminal-notifier, but has less options than cocoaDialog.
+Information can be found on this wiki at [[OSX_Terminal_Notifier]].
 == See also ==