Bash

[Magnuss]

Hello

I am trying to learn bash, and have found Xdialog to make them look better. But when I was experimenting with this code I couldn't get it to work.

#!/bin/bash
 
numfiles=1;
dump='--title "XDIALOG BUILDLIST" --backtitle "A user-built list" \ --stdout --clear --separator "|" --buildlist "hello, this is a --buildlist..." 0 0 6 ';
 
function addfile {
    FILE=`Xdialog --title "Please choose a file" --fselect /home 28 48`;
 
    case $? in
        0)
            FILES[${numfiles}]="$FILE";
            numfiles=$numfiles+1;
            addfile;;
        1)
            foonum=$numfiles;
            for ((i=1;i<$foonum;i++)); do 
              dump+="\ \"${i}\" \"${FILES[${i}]}\" \"off\" ";
            done;;
        255)
            echo "Box closed";;
    esac
}
 
addfile
 
 
result=`Xdialog $dump`;
 
retval=$?
case $retval in
  0)
    echo "The user-built list is '$result'.";;
  1)
    echo "Cancel pressed '$result'.";;
  255)
    echo "Box closed '$result'.";;
esac

What I want to do is to let the user choose several files, and then export it to a buildlist. But it gives me an erro and shows the helpfile:
"Xdialog: missing list parameters !"

Any help is appreciated!

[arne]

Hello

I am trying to learn bash, and have found Xdialog to make them look better. But when I was experimenting with this code I couldn't get it to work.

#!/bin/bash
 
numfiles=1;
dump='--title "XDIALOG BUILDLIST" --backtitle "A user-built list" \ --stdout --clear --separator "|" --buildlist "hello, this is a --buildlist..." 0 0 6 ';
 
function addfile {
    FILE=`Xdialog --title "Please choose a file" --fselect /home 28 48`;
 
    case $? indialog --title "Please choose a file" --fselect /tmp 0 0
        0)
            FILES[${numfiles}]="$FILE";
            numfiles=$numfiles+1;
            addfile;;
        1)
            foonum=$numfiles;
            for ((i=1;i<$foonum;i++)); do 
              dump+="\ \"${i}\" \"${FILES[${i}]}\" \"off\" ";
            done;;
        255)
            echo "Box closed";;
    esac
}
 
addfile
 
 
result=`Xdialog $dump`;
dialog --title "Please choose a file" --fselect /tmp 0 0
retval=$?
case $retval in
  0)
    echo "The user-built list is '$result'.";;
  1)
    echo "Cancel pressed '$result'.";;
  255)
    echo "Box closed '$result'.";;
esac

dialog --title "Please choose a file" --fselect /tmp 0 0

What I want to do is to let the user choose several files, and then export it to a buildlist. But it gives me an erro and shows the helpfile:
"Xdialog: missing list parameters !"

Any help is appreciated!

Did you try to run your Xdialog commands directly from the command line (instead of from within a script)? This looks like an XDialog usage error rather than a bash scripting problem.

arne

[Magnuss]

I tried within the script only. However, I have tried to make it print out the code which is generating the buildlist and entered it directly into the terminal, and it worked.

I just went over to Zenity, which seems easier to me, and much more logical. So thanks for the help, but I don't need more help on Xdialog now :)

[arne]

I tried within the script only. However, I have tried to make it print out the code which is generating the buildlist and entered it directly into the terminal, and it worked.

I just went over to Zenity, which seems easier to me, and much more logical. So thanks for the help, but I don't need more help on Xdialog now :)

Ok, no problem. Never heard about Zenity ... you never stop learning :)

arne