Original author(s) Operating system | Development status Active | |
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Developer(s) Glynn Foster
Lucas Rocha License GNU General Public License Website wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Zenity | ||
Zenity is free software and a cross-platform program that allows the execution of GTK+ dialog boxes in command-line and shell scripts.
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Description
Like tools such as whiptail and dialog, zenity allows easy creation of GUIs, though it has fewer features than more complex GUI-creation tools.
Cross-platform compatibility
As of 2012, Zenity is available for Linux, BSD and Windows. A Zenity port to Mac OS X is available in MacPorts; the homebrew-zenity project has been discontinued.
Zenity does not possess any built-in scripting capabilities and it must, therefore, rely on an interpreter for processing. To create a script that runs on more than one platform without extensive modifications, it would be best to use an interpreter that is available on the widest range of operating systems. One option is Python in combination with the PyZenity library.