Tiny Core Linux
Tiny Core Base => TCB Q&A Forum => Topic started by: saravanan on January 27, 2010, 10:55:00 AM
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Hi all,
How to create a simple dialogue window with options for prompting user input in TC?
What is the window type that is default in TC ?
Please help
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Xdialog is easy to use.
However if you wish to stay with things in the base, it would be C/C++ and FLTK.
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Why not look at some of the programs on your system, and see how it was done?
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thanks, but i have come across something like dialog and stuff, that will provide minimal gui interactions for a scripting backend.
What is the appropriate light weight type for TC?
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Hi all,
when i try to run Xdialog, it throws the following error. i installed Xdialog from AppBrowser of TC.
Xdialog: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
please help
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If you look at http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/2.x/tcz/Xdialog.tcz.dep (http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/2.x/tcz/Xdialog.tcz.dep), you'll find it lists:
glib1.tcz
gtk1.tcz
If you use the appbrowswer to download extensions such as Xdialogue, it will take care of downloading dependent extensions - in this case, you require the glib1 and gtk1 extensions for Xdialogue to work.
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Thats is NOT working, throwing the above error even after installing with AppBrowser!
Please test it yourself!
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Are you using the latest version of microcore/tinycore - i.e. 2.8?
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Hi,
I am using Tiny Core v2.7
Now also installed TC v.2.8
here it throws segmentation error :(
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Could you cut & paste the error?
If you didn't do so already, it would be worth reading the tc-2.8 release notes as there have been a lot of changes since tc-2.7
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My XDialog front-end is working perfectly OK with TCL2.6. I use it to display calendar and other GUI apps.
Try TCL2.6 !
~ Pats
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Error loading gtk1 - gtk1.tcz was not loaded properly at the time, perhaps network issues?
Segfault in 2.8 - confirmed.
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Quote from the man-pages:
Xdialog is designed to be a drop in replacement for the dialog and cdialog programs (BTW Xdialog may also be used in place of gdialog). It converts any terminal based program into a program with an X-windows interface. The dialogs are easier to see and use and the new widgets adds even more functionnalities.
To achieve this, Xdialog uses the Gimp ToolKit (also known as GTK+).
Put follow in a file for eq: mydialog.sh and use it :
<code>
#!/bin/sh
DIALOG=Xdialog
$DIALOG --title "INPUT BOX" \
--inputbox "Hi, this is an input dialog box. You can use
this to ask questions that require the user
to input a string as the answer. You can
input strings of length longer than the
width of the input box, in that case, the
input field will be automatically scrolled.
You can use BACKSPACE to correct errors.\n
Try inputing your name below:" 20 45 2> /tmp/inputbox.tmp.$$
retval=$?
input=`cat /tmp/inputbox.tmp.$$`
rm -f /tmp/inputbox.tmp.$$
case $retval in
0)
echo "Input string is '$input'";;
1)
echo "Cancel pressed.";;
255)
echo "Box closed.";;
esac
</code>
Hope this helps !
~ Pats
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Seems that Xdialog requires a special font. That font is now posted in the repository.
schumacher-clean-fonts.tcz
schumacher-clean-fonts.tcz.md5.txt
I also updated Xdialog's .dep file to include this font.
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Thank you all, it works with pats script.