[solved] Xdialog

Abezz · 01-31-2011, 08:27 PM

hi,
I am creating an script with Xdialog.
The checklist option is confusing me a litte.

Can someone tell me how to save the checklist states so they can be used in a script?
As an example:

Code:

Xdialog --checklist "Choose toppings:" 10 40 3 \
        1 Cheese on \
        2 "Tomato Sauce" on \
        3 Anchovies off

I would then like to put these values through if/else statements to perform different things with respect to the user selection.

I have a feeling this involves arrays somewere....

Thanks

David the H. · 01-31-2011, 09:24 PM

According to the man page:

Code:

DIAGNOSTICS
       On completion of each box option (i.e. every time a widget is closed)
Xdialog sends any result (text, numbers) as one or more strings to stderr (this
can be changed so that the results are sent to stdout thanks to a common option).

It then goes on to talk about exit codes.

So you need to tell xdialog to send the result to stdout, then capture the output in a variable (or array), which you can then process normally. Something like this:

Code:

result=$(Xdialog --stdout --checklist \
 "Choose toppings:" 10 40 3 \
         1 Cheese on\
         2 "Tomato Sauce" on\
         3 Anchovies off
)
$ echo $result  #after checking all items
1/2/3

Abezz · 01-31-2011, 10:05 PM

Thank you very much, kind sir!