Zerenity 1.2

Ruby
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== Synopsis
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.

== Changelog for Zerenity 1.2

  • Added the scale dialog, allowing the user to use a slider to choose
    a numerical value.

== 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
  • Sliding scales

== 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 from
http://zerenity.googlecode.com/files/zerenity-1.2.gem. Links to the
latest release can be found at
Aimred - 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) 2006-2007 Aimred cc