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[Cocoadialog-users] Newline in --informative-text?

[Thomas P. <tp...@gm...>]

Hello CocaDialog Users:

Is it possible to print out multiple lines in the --informative-text portion
of a CocoaDialog call?  In my particular case it is for a yesno-msgbox type
call.

I would like to be able to do something like:

--informative-text "Process ID: $MAINFIREFLYPID \n Run Time: $TIME"`

But obviously this will not work.  Is there a syntax that support newline
calls from within the --informative-text option and if so what is the
syntax?

Thanks,

Thomas

Re: [Cocoadialog-users] Newline in --informative-text?

[Bill L. <wl...@sw...>]

On Jan 3, 2009, at 10:22 AM, Thomas Patko wrote:

> Hello CocaDialog Users:
>
> Is it possible to print out multiple lines in the --informative-text  
> portion of a CocoaDialog call?  In my particular case it is for a  
> yesno-msgbox type call.
>
> I would like to be able to do something like:
>
> --informative-text "Process ID: $MAINFIREFLYPID \n Run Time: $TIME"`
>
> But obviously this will not work.  Is there a syntax that support  
> newline calls from within the --informative-text option and if so  
> what is the syntax?

It doesn't appear that CocoaDialog will do what you are asking.  You  
could kludge this using a "textbox" item under CocoaDialog and getting  
the text from a file using the "--text-from-file" option, but this may  
not provide you exactly what you desire.

Assuming the risk of promoting another GUI building tool, I'd suggest  
that you look into Pashua (http://www.bluem.net/downloads/pashua_en/)  
as an alternative to CocoaDialog.  Both meet the primary requirement  
of being free with good documentation.  Pashua doesn't appear to be  
actively developed, but neither is CocoaDialog.

With Pashua, you can include the string "[return]" in a text string to  
break multiple lines, similar to the:

	Process ID: $MAINFIREFLYPID [return]Run Time: $TIME

example that you were using in your CocoaDialog example.  One "trick"  
that you will have to be aware of is now the shell parses strings and  
substitutes variables.  Notice that I included a space after the  
$MAINFIREFLYPID variable to insure that this would be substituted  
properly.  You may also enclose the variable name in "{}" braces to  
insure proper substitution, such as:

	Process ID: ${MAINFIREFLYPID}[return]Run Time: ${TIME}

Quite honestly, I use both CocoaDialog and Pashua for developing GUI  
controlled shell scripts.  Each has it's own advantages and  
disadvantages.  CocoaDialog is easier to work with as each GUI window  
is a single shell command.  Pashua passes a text string to the command  
with its own syntax making it a little more complex but more flexible.

Pashua also includes instructions and examples of how to wrap a shell  
script up into a MacOS X "application" avoiding the need to use  
Platypus too.  The is nothing wrong with Platypus. It also is good and  
it provides greater flexibility to building applications in MacOS X  
than Pashua, but this flexibility may not always be necessary.  Again,  
just picking and choosing your tools can simplify your development.

Bill Larson

Re: [Cocoadialog-users] Newline in --informative-text?

[Mark A. S. <ma...@sp...>]

I'm sure there's a cleaner way to do it, but you can just hard-code a 
newline in there:
CocoaDialog yesno-msgbox --text "Hi" --informative-text "hello,
world"

That will work just fine, but I admit it's not the most elegant way.  
But anyway, it definitely supports multiple lines, both forced, and 
wrapped if you have a really long informative-text.  This was a 
feature/fix I added to the 2.1.0 release.

The informative-text label in the nib file will allow for an extremely 
large amount of text.  It wraps lines automatically, and will extend 
itself vertically to allow for as much as text as you need (within reason).

- mark

Thomas Patko wrote:
> Hello CocaDialog Users:
>
> Is it possible to print out multiple lines in the --informative-text 
> portion of a CocoaDialog call?  In my particular case it is for a 
> yesno-msgbox type call.
>
> I would like to be able to do something like:
>
> --informative-text "Process ID: $MAINFIREFLYPID \n Run Time: $TIME"`
>
> But obviously this will not work.  Is there a syntax that support 
> newline calls from within the --informative-text option and if so what 
> is the syntax?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Thomas
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Re: [Cocoadialog-users] Newline in --informative-text?

[Thomas P. <tp...@gm...>]

Hello Mark:

Yes.  That works.  It is a bit brute force, but it works.  A discrete call
for a newline without --informative text would be nice for the next
release.  The informative text does wrap VERY nicely and does support large
amounts of text (just what i needed here).  I am writing a simple job
termination little app with Platpus/CocoaDialog and echoing out the
parameters of the job (pulled from separate calls) that the user is going to
be terminating (to ensure that they are killing the RIGHT job).

It seems to work OK using the syntax below, but the final line is not
printed out in the dialog box.  Any ideas why?

CD="CocoaDialog.app/Contents/MacOS/CocoaDialog"
rv=`"$1"/Contents/Resources/$CD yesno-msgbox --no-cancel --float
--string-output --no-newline \
--title "Firefly for Mac Job Termination Prompt" \
--text  "Do you want to cancel this Firefly Job? Job $COUNT of $NO_ITEMS" \
--informative-text "Job Type Summary : $JOBTYPE
Run Time (Minutes:Seconds) : $TIME
Input File : $INPUTFILE
Number of CPU Cores : $NCPU
Firefly Process ID : $MAINFIREFLYPID"`

Cheers,

Thomas

On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Mark A. Stratman <ma...@sp...>wrote:

> I'm sure there's a cleaner way to do it, but you can just hard-code a
> newline in there:
> CocoaDialog yesno-msgbox --text "Hi" --informative-text "hello,
> world"
>
> That will work just fine, but I admit it's not the most elegant way.  But
> anyway, it definitely supports multiple lines, both forced, and wrapped if
> you have a really long informative-text.  This was a feature/fix I added to
> the 2.1.0 release.
>
> The informative-text label in the nib file will allow for an extremely
> large amount of text.  It wraps lines automatically, and will extend itself
> vertically to allow for as much as text as you need (within reason).
>
> - mark
>
> Thomas Patko wrote:
>
>> Hello CocaDialog Users:
>>
>> Is it possible to print out multiple lines in the --informative-text
>> portion of a CocoaDialog call?  In my particular case it is for a
>> yesno-msgbox type call.
>>
>> I would like to be able to do something like:
>>
>> --informative-text "Process ID: $MAINFIREFLYPID \n Run Time: $TIME"`
>>
>> But obviously this will not work.  Is there a syntax that support newline
>> calls from within the --informative-text option and if so what is the
>> syntax?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Thomas
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Re: [Cocoadialog-users] Newline in --informative-text?

[Mark A. S. <ma...@sp...>]

Well, the problem with sending the newline isn't one for CocoaDialog.  
CocoaDialog takes exactly what you give it, newlines included, and 
displays it. Finding an elegant way to send a newline to a program in 
command-line arguments is a problem with the shell.

In Perl, for example, you can do `cocoadialog yesno-msgbox 
--informative-text "one\ntwo"` without a problem.

Regarding the last line being cut off... do you mean the one that says 
"Filefly Process ID : " ?  If so, I just tested it, copying and pasting 
that command exactly as you typed it, and it worked just fine.  So I 
don't know what the problem might be.  Are you using the newest version 
of cocoadialog (i added auto-resizing to dialogs in one of the later 
releases)?

- mark

Thomas Patko wrote:
> Hello Mark:
>
> Yes.  That works.  It is a bit brute force, but it works.  A discrete 
> call for a newline without --informative text would be nice for the 
> next release.  The informative text does wrap VERY nicely and does 
> support large amounts of text (just what i needed here).  I am writing 
> a simple job termination little app with Platpus/CocoaDialog and 
> echoing out the parameters of the job (pulled from separate calls) 
> that the user is going to be terminating (to ensure that they are 
> killing the RIGHT job).
>
> It seems to work OK using the syntax below, but the final line is not 
> printed out in the dialog box.  Any ideas why?
>
> CD="CocoaDialog.app/Contents/MacOS/CocoaDialog"
> rv=`"$1"/Contents/Resources/$CD yesno-msgbox --no-cancel --float 
> --string-output --no-newline \
> --title "Firefly for Mac Job Termination Prompt" \
> --text  "Do you want to cancel this Firefly Job? Job $COUNT of 
> $NO_ITEMS" \
> --informative-text "Job Type Summary : $JOBTYPE
> Run Time (Minutes:Seconds) : $TIME
> Input File : $INPUTFILE
> Number of CPU Cores : $NCPU
> Firefly Process ID : $MAINFIREFLYPID"`
>
> Cheers,
>
> Thomas
>
> On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Mark A. Stratman <ma...@sp... 
> <mailto:ma...@sp...>> wrote:
>
>     I'm sure there's a cleaner way to do it, but you can just
>     hard-code a newline in there:
>     CocoaDialog yesno-msgbox --text "Hi" --informative-text "hello,
>     world"
>
>     That will work just fine, but I admit it's not the most elegant
>     way.  But anyway, it definitely supports multiple lines, both
>     forced, and wrapped if you have a really long informative-text.
>      This was a feature/fix I added to the 2.1.0 release.
>
>     The informative-text label in the nib file will allow for an
>     extremely large amount of text.  It wraps lines automatically, and
>     will extend itself vertically to allow for as much as text as you
>     need (within reason).
>
>     - mark
>
>     Thomas Patko wrote:
>
>         Hello CocaDialog Users:
>
>         Is it possible to print out multiple lines in the
>         --informative-text portion of a CocoaDialog call?  In my
>         particular case it is for a yesno-msgbox type call.
>
>         I would like to be able to do something like:
>
>         --informative-text "Process ID: $MAINFIREFLYPID \n Run Time:
>         $TIME"`
>
>         But obviously this will not work.  Is there a syntax that
>         support newline calls from within the --informative-text
>         option and if so what is the syntax?
>
>         Thanks,
>
>         Thomas
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