BSDDialog is an utility to write a script with a Text User Interface. It can build widgets/dialogs: to show messages, to get input and to inform about a computation status.
Example to build a msgbox with Hello World!:
% bsddialog --msgbox "Hello World!" 8 20
Of course, it is possible to use bsddialog in a shell script, "Yes-No Question" example:
#!/bin/sh
${BSDDIALOG_YES=0}
${BSDDIALOG_NO=1}
bsddialog --theme bsddialog --color --title " yesno " \
--yesno "\nHello \Z3World\Zn!" 10 30
case $? in
$BSDDIALOG_YES )
echo "YES!"
;;
$BSDDIALOG_NO )
echo "NO!"
;;
esac
The utility is designed and developed mainly for FreeBSD, the first version 0.0.1 is out, please consider this a testing version, let me know any problem.
To install the port devel/bsddialog:
# cd /usr/ports/devel/bsddialog/ && make install clean
To add the package:
# pkg install bsddialog
To build from sources:
$ git clone https://gitlab.com/alfix/bsddialog.git
$ cd bsddialog
$ make
Features:
% bsddialog --version
bsddialog 0.0.1 (libbsddialog 0.1-devel).
% bsddialog --help
- Messages: infobox, msgbox, yesno.
- Menus: radiolist, checklist, menu, treeview, buildlist.
- Forms: inputbox, form, mixedform, passwordbox, passwordform,
- Bars: gauge, pause, mixedgauge, rangebox.
- Date and time: datebox, timebox.
- Text: textbox.
The project has a list of examples, some screenshot, preview:
BSDDialog is an open source project released under the term of the BSD 2 Clause License, repository: https://gitlab.com/alfix/bsddialog.
Happy Hacking!
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