Program allows you to display GTK+ dialog boxes from command line or shell scripts. YAD depends on GTK+ only. Minimal GTK+ version is 3.22.0
This software is licensed under the GPL v.3
Project homepage: https://github.com/v1cont/yad
Complex examples: https://github.com/v1cont/yad/wiki/YAD-Examples
Mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/yad-common
Some miscellaneous stuff can be found in data/misc directory including notify-send script and simple zenity-compatible wrapper
A fresh gtk2 branch of YAD can be obtained from this repository - https://github.com/step-/yad
Get git version with command
git clone https://github.com/v1cont/yad.git yad-dialog-code
Before run the standard ./configure && make && make install procedure you need to generate build scripts. This can be done by running command
autoreconf -ivf && intltoolize
You must manually run gtk-update-icon-cache after installation.
For successfully build you may need to install the following packages:
- GNU Autotools (https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/ http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/)
- Intltool >= 0.40.0 (http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/intltool/)
- GTK+ >= 3.22.0 (http://www.gtk.org) with appropriate -dev packages depending on your distro
Additionally, you can build yad with the following libraries:
- Webkit - for supporting HTML dialog (http://webkitgtk.org)
- GtkSourceView - for enabling syntax highlighting in text-info dialog (https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GtkSourceView)
- GSpell - for support spell checking in text fields (https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/gspell)
In standalone build (configure option --enable-standalone) some defaults can be redefined with the following defines
BORDERS - set the default border width around dialog. Default is 5
REMAIN - if defined, timeout indicator will show the remaining time
COMBO_EDIT - if defined, combo-box in entry dialog will be always editable
TERM_CMD - string with terminal command. Default is "xterm -e '%s'"
OPEN_CMD - string with open command. Default is "xdg-open '%s'"
DATE_FMT - string with date output format. Default is "%x". See strftime(3) for details
URI_COLOR - color for URIs in text-info dialog. Default is blue
MARK1_COLOR - color for first type of text marks in text-info dialog. Default is lightgreen
MARK2_COLOR - color for second type of text marks in text-info dialog. Default is pink
MAX_TABS - set the number of tabs for tabbed dialog. Default is 100
Defines can be added througs CFLAGS environment variable