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technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 3845

The zenity project had gone stale until Victor Ananjevsky forked it to add some patches and produce Yet Another Dialog. It no longer depends on deprecated libraries like libglade or gnome-canvas (just gtk2)

Zenity is still used in many *buntu scripts so I compiled Yad and made a symlink for zenity.

Here is a simple example:

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 3845

new version for wary puppy (with zenity symlink)

stu90 · Posted: Sun 20 Feb 2011, 08:59 Post subject:

updated below.

stu90 · Posted: Mon 21 Feb 2011, 09:02 Post subject:

Ok here is a .pet for yad-0.8.1

abushcrafter · Joined: 30 Oct 2009 Posts: 1447 Location: England

playdayz · Joined: 25 Apr 2008 Posts: 3705

stu90, Talk about immediately useful stu90--I just used this in wine to run winetricks with a better ui--and it saved 300KB over zenity. Thanks.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=497570#497570

seaside · Joined: 11 Apr 2007 Posts: 841

After looking at the Yad documentation, I saw some features that I was looking for in other dialogs and found missing - the ability to select multiple items. So I checked out some of the features and put together a small, scrollable toolbar to create, add, delete, and start favorite programs. When you press "add" it gives you a list of your *.desktop files, where you can select multiple items for your "toolbar" favorites (and the same process in reverse by pressing "delete"). You can size and place the dialog with the --geometry option.

Note that icons only appear for *.desktop files that contain the actual path.

Yad seems to be somewhere between Xdialog and Gtkdialog3, providing several useful features such as forms, multiple selection, notifications and more. I couldn't get the Filelist widget in forms to work in multiple selection mode, but maybe I missed something.

It seems a good tool for constructing useful projects.

Cheers,
s

stu90 · Posted: Wed 23 Feb 2011, 20:59 Post subject:

abushcrafter:
it was compiled on lucid puppy.

Playdayz:
glad to be of help - i think one could probably get yad even abit smaller if it wasn't a noob like me compiling and leaving in uneeded file.

seaside:
I had a similar idea about yads use as an application launcher.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=65011

cheers. Cool

seaside · Joined: 11 Apr 2007 Posts: 841

stu90 · Posted: Thu 24 Feb 2011, 15:15 Post subject:

Hi seaside,
I have updated pap to version 2 (script is in the second post on the PaP thread) you need to create a directory in root called /root/pap and inside that directory a new directory for each panel.

For instance with the example panels that are in the pap v2 script, you would need directories:
/root/pap/pap-app
/root/pap/pap-desktop
/root/pap/pap-setup
/root/pap/pap-system

You can have any number of panels (line 6 of script) as long as they have a corresponding directory of the same name in /root/pap.

Maybe it wold be more straight forward just to package into a pet with several pre defined panels?

I looked at using existing desktop icons but found as you did them to be inconsistent, many missing full icon paths - perhaps PaP Add application could be addapted and used to edit existing desktop files?

cheers.

seaside · Joined: 11 Apr 2007 Posts: 841

seaside · Joined: 11 Apr 2007 Posts: 841

stu90,

You could slip this code in which would ask for a *.desktop file and then populate the editor.

stu90 · Posted: Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:36 Post subject:

Thanks Seaside, i have added it into update v3 in the other thread.

cheers.

stu90 · Posted: Wed 09 Mar 2011, 12:57 Post subject:

update to yad-0.9.0

Makoto · Posted: Fri 11 Mar 2011, 18:27 Post subject:

Does Yad require Puppy 5, more or less, or can it be compiled for Puppy 4? I'm just wondering, because I've seen implications it requires newer versions of certain libs, that just aren't present (and not easily upgradable ones, like perhaps glib) in Puppy 4.