Zerenity 1.1

Zerenity is an almost clone of
Zenity(Best Open Source Mac Software Development Software 2023) for Ruby. It allows for
the easy creation of simple graphical dialogs from a Ruby script.

= Zerenity Changelog
== 1.1

  • From this version the OK button is set as the default widget. Pressing
    Enter
    in a dialog will cause it to be fired. If you do not want your dialog
    to have
    this behavior set the :activatesDefault option to false. Note that
    certain widgets
    (List, FileSelection and TextInfo when :editable is set) do not
    allow this as Enter
    could be used for other actions. Originally suggested by Justin
    Collins.
  • Instead of passing a Gtk::VBox to the build and retrieve_selection
    methods, now
    pass in the parent Gtk::Dialog.

== Features
Zerenity allows for the creation of the following dialogs

  • Date selection
  • Text entry
  • Error display
  • File/directory selection
  • Information display
  • List display and selection
  • Progress display
  • Question display
  • Text information display and editing
  • Warning display

== Dependencies
Zerenity requires GTK2(http://www.gtk.org) and
Ruby/GTK2(http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi).

== Installation
Zerenity is avaiable as a Ruby gem. Links to the latest release can be
found at http://www.aimred.com/files/projects/zerenity.

The code is also available via it’s Subversion repository at
http://zerenity.googlecode.com/svn/

== Example Usage
=== User Input and Display
require ‘zerenity’

if (name = Zerenity::Entry(:text=>“What is your name?”))
Zerenity::Info(:text=>“Hello #{name}”)
else
puts “No name entered”
end

=== Progress
require ‘zerenity’

fileList = filesToProcess(folder)
Zerenity::Progress(:text=>‘Processing files’,:autoClose=>true) do
|progress|
fileList.each_index do |file,index|
processFile(file)
progress.update(index/fileList.length,“#{100*index/fileList.length}%
processed…”)
end
end

== License
Zerenity is released under the BSD license.

== Copyright
(c) 2006 Farrel L.

Farrel L. wrote:

this behavior set the :activatesDefault option to false. Note that
certain widgets
(List, FileSelection and TextInfo when :editable is set) do not
allow this as Enter
could be used for other actions. Originally suggested by Justin C…

Thanks! Works great. I’m really enjoying this library.

-Justin