How to keep YAD buttons around after click

biosboy4 · 02-12-2018, 07:27 AM

I got this working the way I want it except that I haven't yet figured out how to make the buttons stay onscreen after the clicks.

Please advise

Thanks,

Code:

#!/bin/bash
#Create Gui Buttons and assign vals for var
val=$(yad --center --width=300 --height=100 --title "GNUsual" --image "/mnt/foo.png" --text="Choose a Multicast to view:" \
--button="Multicast1":1 \
--button="Multicast2":2 \
--button="Multicast3":3 \
--button="Multicast4":4 ) \
ret=$?

#responses to above button presses are below
if [[ $ret -eq 1 ]]; then
vlc rtp://MulticastIP
#Insert troubleshooting gui-utility commands here
fi

if [[ $ret -eq 2 ]]; then
vlc rtp://multicastIP
#Insert troubleshooting gui-utility commands here
fi

if [[ $ret -eq 3 ]]; then
vlc rtp://multicastIP
#Insert troubleshooting gui-utility commands here
fi

if [[ $ret -eq 4]]; then
vlc rtp://multicastIP
#Insert troubleshooting gui-utility commands here
fi

Habitual · 02-12-2018, 11:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by biosboy4

I got this working the way I want it except that I haven't yet figured out how to make the buttons stay onscreen after the clicks.

Please advise

Thanks,

Code:

#!/bin/bash
#Create Gui Buttons and assign vals for var
val=$(yad --center --width=300 --height=100 --title "GNUsual" --image "/mnt/foo.png" --text="Choose a Multicast to view:" \
--button="Multicast1":1 \
--button="Multicast2":2 \
--button="Multicast3":3 \
--button="Multicast4":4 ) \
ret=$?

Think you may need to "re-draw" them and guess #2 is
right after ret=$?

Michael Uplawski · 02-12-2018, 12:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by biosboy4

I haven't yet figured out how to make the buttons stay onscreen after the clicks.

Use a loop of some kind. An exit-button will be nice to bail out from the loop, as the escape-key would not do it out of the box... I guess... but have not tested anything like this... Wait! Yes. I had a loop around the call to yad, but also an exit button...

michaelk · 02-12-2018, 01:04 PM

I've never played with yad but it appears to be a fork of zenity. yad is a way to have a grapical input or pop up messages in a shell script but it isn't a graphical application. When the command is run the box is displayed and waiting on input. Once the button is selected the command completes which closes the box i.e. it goes away.

As stated the only way to make the buttons stay on screen is to have a loop in your script.

biosboy4 · 02-12-2018, 07:53 PM

Thanks guys,

I tried

Quote:

for ( ;; )
do
$EVERYTHING
done

but have so far been unsuccessful; do you guys happen to know of a way to just loop the entire script?
I thought about bouncing it between identical versions of itself that point to and execute one another but that seems kinda hacky.

michaelk · 02-12-2018, 08:08 PM

Why was it unsuccessful?

A while infinite loop

Code:

#!/bin/bash
while true
do
  #everything goes here
done

A for infinite loop

Code:

#!/bin/bash
 
for (( ; ; ))
do
  #everything goes here
done

walker · 04-03-2018, 03:06 PM

Supposing that a vertical layout doesn't hurt you and multicastIP adresses are fixed as seems reading your code...

You can try with the --form layout with button to which is directly associated the command

"#!/bin/bash

#Create Gui Buttons and assign vals for var

#Create vertical form with command associated directly to button
yad --form --width=250 --title="GNUsual" --image="/mnt/foo.png" --center --text="Choose a Multicast to view:" \
--field="Multicast1":fbtn "vlc rtp://MulticastIP" \
--field="Multicast2":fbtn "vlc rtp://MulticastIP" \
--field="Multicast3":fbtn "vlc rtp://MulticastIP" \
--field="Multicast4":fbtn "vlc rtp://MulticastIP" \
--button=gtk-quit:0"

The dialogue box disappers only if you click quit button at bottom right of the dialogue box.

Hope this helps

Walker

Habitual · 04-04-2018, 09:02 AM

Here's a nugget I wrote 7 years ago:

Code:

touch /tmp/$$
( ( echo 1 ; while [ -f /tmp/$$ ] ; do sleep 1 ; done ; echo 100 ) | yad --progress --pulsate --auto-close --text="Counting Snapshots..." --width=150 --title="" --undecorated --no-buttons) & get_snapshots
rm /tmp/$$

Enjoy!