Dialog box scripting....

r_jensen11 · 01-25-2004, 04:06 PM

I was curious, anyone have a nice way of creating a script that opens a dialog box? I'm in favor of the dialog boxes where you're given buttons, but I suppose radio buttons work as well. I'm just curious, because I'd like to know how to make a simple one for poweroff menus, without having to download and install other programs(so I can just keep it in my /home partition if I ever reformat, and it'll be safe.)

Edit: This is also supposed to run in X.

jtshaw · 01-25-2004, 06:35 PM

Well, you pretty much have to write a program using one of the gui libraries to pull that off.

r_jensen11 · 01-25-2004, 06:40 PM

Okay, I'm getting introduced to glade-2, but I'm running into troubles.

I have my gui all laid out how I want the buttons to look, etc. But beyond that, I'm lost. I've searched for some tutorials for basic dialoge boxes, but I can't really follow them, for some reason.

Here's my power-menu.glade file:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?> <!--*- mode: xml -*-->
<!DOCTYPE glade-interface SYSTEM "http://glade.gnome.org/glade-2.0.dtd">

<glade-interface>

<widget class="GtkDialog" id="dialog1">
  <property name="width_request">300</property>
  <property name="height_request">75</property>
  <property name="visible">True</property>
  <property name="title" translatable="yes">Shut Down</property>
  <property name="type">GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL</property>
  <property name="window_position">GTK_WIN_POS_NONE</property>
  <property name="modal">False</property>
  <property name="resizable">True</property>
  <property name="destroy_with_parent">False</property>
  <property name="has_separator">True</property>

  <child internal-child="vbox">
    <widget class="GtkVBox" id="dialog-vbox1">
      <property name="visible">True</property>
      <property name="homogeneous">False</property>
      <property name="spacing">0</property>

      <child internal-child="action_area">
	<widget class="GtkHButtonBox" id="dialog-action_area1">
	  <property name="height_request">35</property>
	  <property name="visible">True</property>
	  <property name="layout_style">GTK_BUTTONBOX_SPREAD</property>

	  <child>
	    <widget class="GtkButton" id="poweroff">
	      <property name="border_width">3</property>
	      <property name="width_request">90</property>
	      <property name="visible">True</property>
	      <property name="can_default">True</property>
	      <property name="can_focus">True</property>
	      <property name="relief">GTK_RELIEF_NORMAL</property>
	      <property name="response_id">2</property>

	      <child>
		<widget class="GtkAlignment" id="alignment2">
		  <property name="border_width">3</property>
		  <property name="visible">True</property>
		  <property name="xalign">0.5</property>
		  <property name="yalign">0.5</property>
		  <property name="xscale">0</property>
		  <property name="yscale">0</property>

		  <child>
		    <widget class="GtkHBox" id="hbox2">
		      <property name="visible">True</property>
		      <property name="homogeneous">False</property>
		      <property name="spacing">2</property>

		      <child>
			<widget class="GtkImage" id="image2">
			  <property name="visible">True</property>
			  <property name="stock">gtk-stop</property>
			  <property name="icon_size">4</property>
			  <property name="xalign">0.5</property>
			  <property name="yalign">0.5</property>
			  <property name="xpad">0</property>
			  <property name="ypad">0</property>
			</widget>
			<packing>
			  <property name="padding">0</property>
			  <property name="expand">False</property>
			  <property name="fill">False</property>
			</packing>
		      </child>

		      <child>
			<widget class="GtkLabel" id="label3">
			  <property name="visible">True</property>
			  <property name="label" translatable="yes">Poweroff</property>
			  <property name="use_underline">True</property>
			  <property name="use_markup">False</property>
			  <property name="justify">GTK_JUSTIFY_LEFT</property>
			  <property name="wrap">False</property>
			  <property name="selectable">False</property>
			  <property name="xalign">0.5</property>
			  <property name="yalign">0.5</property>
			  <property name="xpad">0</property>
			  <property name="ypad">0</property>
			</widget>
			<packing>
			  <property name="padding">0</property>
			  <property name="expand">False</property>
			  <property name="fill">False</property>
			</packing>
		      </child>
		    </widget>
		  </child>
		</widget>
	      </child>
	    </widget>
	  </child>

	  <child>
	    <widget class="GtkButton" id="reboot">
	      <property name="border_width">3</property>
	      <property name="width_request">90</property>
	      <property name="visible">True</property>
	      <property name="can_default">True</property>
	      <property name="can_focus">True</property>
	      <property name="relief">GTK_RELIEF_NORMAL</property>
	      <property name="response_id">3</property>

	      <child>
		<widget class="GtkAlignment" id="alignment3">
		  <property name="border_width">3</property>
		  <property name="width_request">80</property>
		  <property name="visible">True</property>
		  <property name="xalign">0.5</property>
		  <property name="yalign">0.5</property>
		  <property name="xscale">0</property>
		  <property name="yscale">0</property>

		  <child>
		    <widget class="GtkHBox" id="hbox3">
		      <property name="visible">True</property>
		      <property name="homogeneous">False</property>
		      <property name="spacing">2</property>

		      <child>
			<widget class="GtkImage" id="image3">
			  <property name="visible">True</property>
			  <property name="stock">gtk-refresh</property>
			  <property name="icon_size">4</property>
			  <property name="xalign">0.5</property>
			  <property name="yalign">0.5</property>
			  <property name="xpad">0</property>
			  <property name="ypad">0</property>
			</widget>
			<packing>
			  <property name="padding">0</property>
			  <property name="expand">False</property>
			  <property name="fill">False</property>
			</packing>
		      </child>

		      <child>
			<widget class="GtkLabel" id="label4">
			  <property name="visible">True</property>
			  <property name="label" translatable="yes">Reboot</property>
			  <property name="use_underline">True</property>
			  <property name="use_markup">False</property>
			  <property name="justify">GTK_JUSTIFY_LEFT</property>
			  <property name="wrap">False</property>
			  <property name="selectable">False</property>
			  <property name="xalign">0.5</property>
			  <property name="yalign">0.5</property>
			  <property name="xpad">0</property>
			  <property name="ypad">0</property>
			</widget>
			<packing>
			  <property name="padding">0</property>
			  <property name="expand">False</property>
			  <property name="fill">False</property>
			</packing>
		      </child>
		    </widget>
		  </child>
		</widget>
	      </child>
	    </widget>
	  </child>

	  <child>
	    <widget class="GtkButton" id="cancel">
	      <property name="border_width">3</property>
	      <property name="width_request">90</property>
	      <property name="visible">True</property>
	      <property name="can_default">True</property>
	      <property name="can_focus">True</property>
	      <property name="label">gtk-cancel</property>
	      <property name="use_stock">True</property>
	      <property name="relief">GTK_RELIEF_NORMAL</property>
	      <property name="response_id">-6</property>
	    </widget>
	  </child>
	</widget>
	<packing>
	  <property name="padding">0</property>
	  <property name="expand">False</property>
	  <property name="fill">True</property>
	  <property name="pack_type">GTK_PACK_END</property>
	</packing>
      </child>

      <child>
	<widget class="GtkVPaned" id="vpaned1">
	  <property name="width_request">60</property>
	  <property name="height_request">60</property>
	  <property name="sensitive">False</property>
	  <property name="can_focus">True</property>
	  <property name="position">30</property>

	  <child>
	    <widget class="GtkLabel" id="label">
	      <property name="width_request">60</property>
	      <property name="height_request">20</property>
	      <property name="visible">True</property>
	      <property name="sensitive">False</property>
	      <property name="label" translatable="yes">Shut Down</property>
	      <property name="use_underline">False</property>
	      <property name="use_markup">False</property>
	      <property name="justify">GTK_JUSTIFY_CENTER</property>
	      <property name="wrap">False</property>
	      <property name="selectable">False</property>
	      <property name="xalign">0.5</property>
	      <property name="yalign">0.5</property>
	      <property name="xpad">0</property>
	      <property name="ypad">0</property>
	    </widget>
	    <packing>
	      <property name="shrink">False</property>
	      <property name="resize">False</property>
	    </packing>
	  </child>

	  <child>
	    <placeholder/>
	  </child>
	</widget>
	<packing>
	  <property name="padding">0</property>
	  <property name="expand">True</property>
	  <property name="fill">True</property>
	</packing>
      </child>
    </widget>
  </child>
</widget>

</glade-interface>

If anyone could help me out at all by linking each button with a command(Power off goes to halt -n, reboot goes to halt -r, cancel closes the program), it would be greatly appreciated.