Dialog allows you to present a variety of questions or display messages using dialog boxes from a shell script. Several types of dialog boxes are implemented including: calendar, checklist, file-selection, gauge, info, input, menu, message, radiolist, tailbox, text, time, yes/no.
| Tags | Software Distribution Tools |
|---|---|
| Licenses | LGPL |
| Operating Systems | Unix POSIX |
| Implementation | C Other Scripting Engines Unix Shell |
Recent releases


Release Notes: This release adds buildlist, rangebox, and treeview dialogs, like Xdialog It adds other options for Xdialog and whiptail compatibility. There are several bugfixes.


Release Notes: This release fixes a regression in msgbox from 20120703 changes and improves portability of some sample scripts.


Release Notes: This release adds the option --default-button to preselect any of the buttons on each widget, and adds several fixes (some related to the new feature).


Release Notes: Auto-layout was improved for checklist, radio box, and menu widgets. A missing version for lib tool libraries was corrected. Portability fixes were made.


Release Notes: This release fixes two regressions in the 20111018 snapshot, an older bug in 20110707, and clang --analyze warnings.