YAD - Tips

[stemsee]

Here s an example of --on-top 'window above other windows always except when full screen video etc'.
Also an example of
--skip-taskbar - The way to close such a window is to click and press Esc key, or use

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 pid=$!
kill $pid

if backgrounded. The option --no-escape means obligatory use of $! or killall yad.

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yad --geometry=100x100 --undecorated --on-top --text="Drag-n-drop directory or files here \nThey will be added to ref list" --no-buttons --skip-taskbar --dnd --cmd echo $1 >> /root/references.txt &

[smokey01]

stemsee, nice. I prefer not to background it and keep the decorations. This way I can close it without killing the pid or hitting the ESC key. Also the paths in the file are not useful EG: file:///root/bla.txt. I prefer /root/bla.txt but each to his own.

Have a look at this?

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yad --geometry=100x100 --on-top --text="Drag-n-drop directory or files here \nThey will be added to ref list" --no-buttons --skip-taskbar --dnd --cmd echo $1 | sed 's/^.......//' >> /root/references.txt

[stemsee]

That would have been a better solution. i was trying to find the expression to get rid of 'file://' yesterday!

However for some reason nothing is getting added to the file /root/references.txt with your code as it is! sed 's/^' isn't that to insert?

[smokey01]

Once you close the dnd gui the files will be written to your file.

[smokey01]

BTW yad-0.36.0 is out.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/yad-dialog/
The red change I asked for only a few days ago. Victor sure is responsive.

YAD 0.36.0 released

New and changes in this release:
- add --no-selection option to list dialog
- improve --center option
- add spell checking support for text field in form and text-info dialog
- add gtksourceview support to text-info dialog
- fix setting initial value for numeric text entry in entry dialog
- do not close print dialog when preview button is clicked
- add --monitor option to icon dialog
- change default font for text-info and print text files to Monospace
- quote field values for button callback in form dialog

Download link - https://sourceforge.net/projects/yad-di ... urce=files

Supports of spell checking and gtksourceview are disabled by default.
To turn it on add --enable-spell and --enable-sourceview options
to ./configure command line

--
Victor Ananjevsky <anan...@gmail.com>

[smokey01]

Although my YAD help doesn't display as well in a browser as it does in Notecase, I have placed it at http://smokey01.com/yad so you can monitor my progress.

[rg66]

Also the paths in the file are not useful EG: file:///root/bla.txt. I prefer /root/bla.txt but each to his own.

I posted about this here: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 748#823748

[smokey01]

Where do you think I stole the idea from

[smokey01]

The --completion command searches the data in the script and matches it against your input. Run the script and type b into the entry box. You will be given a choice of three words beginning with b.

#!/bin/sh
yad --title="--completion" --completion \
--entry="Name:" "" \
"Abba" "Bark" "Bungy Boy" "Billy" "Charlie" "Delta" "Echo" | while read line; do
ENTRY=`echo $line | awk -F',' '{print $1}'`
echo $ENTRY
done

[Bert]

Thank you smokey01 for all your work!

Your help/tutorial is quickly becoming the best yad manual available.

[smokey01]

Thanks Bert.

If you didn't know, you can download the progressive Notecase file here:
http://smokey01.com/yad/yad.ncd.xz

It's still a work in progress with lots more to do.

[stemsee]

@smokey01
Your notecase document is really good. Concise, informative, easy to navigate: very usable!

[smokey01]

A little while back MochiMoppel was looking for a simple GUI to find files between two dates and file sizes. For a bit of fun I made this GUI with YAD that uses the find command. Some might find it useful.
You do need yad-0.36.2 to run it. Earlier versions don't work, well not here anyway.

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#!/bin/sh
#Written by smokey01
#05 May 2016

help () {
	yad --window-icon="gtk-find" --center --title="Look4 Help" --text="
 This is a simple little GUI made with 
 YAD to help drive the find command. 
 
 All fields must be populated or the GUI 
 will not return any results.
 
 If you believe you should have received
 results but didn't, try widening the 
 date and or size parameters.
 
 Double click on results to open the file.  
 
 Requires YAD-0.36.2 or later. 
 
 Enjoy. smokey01
 "
}
export -f help

look () {
	loc=${1}
	name=${2}
	startdate=${3}
	enddate=${4}
	startsize=${5}
	endsize=${6}
	find $loc -name "$name" -newermt "$startdate" ! -newermt "$enddate" -size +$startsize"k" ! -size +$endsize"k" | yad --width=600 --height=400 --separator=" " --window-icon="gtk-find" --title "Search Results" --center --column "Files" --list --dclick-action="rox"
}
export -f look

yad --window-icon="gtk-find" --title="Look4 Files" --center --form --separator=" " --date-format="%Y-%m-%d" \
--field="Location:":MDIR "/root" \
--field="Filename:" "*" \
--field="Start Date:":DT "2000-01-01" \
--field="End Date:":DT "2016-12-31" \
--field="Min Size KB:":NUM "0" \
--field="Max Size KB:":NUM "1024" \
--field="Find!gtk-find:BTN" 'bash -c "look %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6"' \
--button=gtk-help:'bash -c help' \
--button=gtk-quit:0

[stemsee]

I compiled yad-0.36.2-i686 but would not compile with html (--enable-html) nor spell (--enable-spell) on my setup.

So the script you posted doesn't work. All my other scripts work with this yad.

Here is the yad I compiled if anyone wants to test.

[Bert]

smokey01, I had to change the first line "#!/bin/sh" to "#!/bin/bash" to be able to run the script. With the "#!/bin/sh", terminal says:

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./smokey_find: 24: export: Illegal option -f

and the help button gave the bash --help, not your help-function.
Yad-version also 0.36.2.

Nice script!

[smokey01]

Bert does your sh point to dash and not bash.

I'm using Fatdog-702, what are you and stemsee using?

I'm currently in Fatdog-701, it works but it's not showing icons for find, help and quit buttons otherwise works fine.

[smokey01]

I compiled yad-0.36.2-i686 but would not compile with html (--enable-html) nor spell (--enable-spell) on my setup.

So the script you posted doesn't work. All my other scripts work with this yad.

Here is the yad I compiled if anyone wants to test.

CatDude has just tried your yad binary pulled from your sfs file and it worked fine in slacko-5.7.

I didn't enable html or spell either.

Instead of using a sfs try renaming the old yad in your system and drop the new one in /usr/bin. I have had experiences where sfs files don't overlay current binaries so it may be calling your old yad.

[Bert]

Bert does your sh point to dash and not bash.

Yes, you are right!

I'm using Fatdog-702, what are you and stemsee using?

I'm using Lubuntu....

I'm currently in Fatdog-701, it works but it's not showing icons for find, help and quit buttons otherwise works fine.

Here all icons are visible.

[stemsee]

The problem was copying the script from the web page. The yad gui has escaped lines which had extra spaces, after I removed the spaces and the escapes it worked fine.

yad compiles by default to install to /usr/local/bin

[smokey01]

The problem was copying the script from the web page. The yad gui has escaped lines which had extra spaces, after I removed the spaces and the escapes it worked fine.

yad compiles by default to install to /usr/local/bin

I always compile like:

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./configure --prefix=/usr
make
make install

Cheers