is it possible to have two inputbox in one dialog window in bash?

FIRATYILDIRIM · 12-10-2008, 06:08 AM

I want to have a dialog window which gets two number from user... I dont want to ask it in two dialog but i couldn't figure out any solution nor i couldn't find any information about im/possibility of this by google searchs... I can use any solution which can get these two numbers in one dialog window...

Is there any one who can help?

Thanks for your time...

pixellany · 12-10-2008, 06:55 AM

Welcome to LQ!!

How about dialog with the --form option? It's in the man page under "Box options".

FIRATYILDIRIM · 12-10-2008, 10:39 AM

Thank you Pixellany

After your advice i made some search on google but i see there is very few dialog examples about --form option. But at the end i could solve my problem and here that part of my code. I hope it can be helpful.

Code:

dialog 	--title "TITLE" \
	--form "NAME" 9 40 2 \
	"1st :" 1 1 "" 1 8 10 20 \
	"2nd :" 2 1 "" 2 8 10 20 2> "filename"

pixellany · 12-10-2008, 10:56 AM

This is the kind of behavior we like to see from newcomers!! Thanks for the follow-up

DrLove73 · 06-01-2010, 05:26 PM

Direct output to variable:

Code:

exec 3>&1
   NewData=$(dialog 	--title "TITLE" \
	--form "NAME" 9 40 2 \
	"1st :" 1 1 "" 1 8 10 20 \
	"2nd :" 2 1 "" 2 8 10 20 \
   2>&1 1>&3)
exec 3>&-

echo $NewData

MTK358 · 06-01-2010, 07:36 PM

2 year old thread.

DrLove73 · 06-02-2010, 04:10 AM

Yup, I know. But it came up 4'th in google looking for >"--form" dialog bash< search. And when you use dialog, you need output data inside the variable, not in file. So I knowingly enriched it.