Re: [Cocoadialog-users] Bourne Shell Script Equivalent to Perl Script Sample for CocoaDialog Dropdown

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

On Nov 30, 2008, at 12:35 PM, Thomas Patko wrote:

> Hello CocoaDialog Users:
>
> I am trying to integrate CocoaDialog with some drag and drop run  
> applications that I am building with Platypus.  I saw one of the  
> Cocoa dialog that would be quite useful for such a purpose, the  
> dropdown.  I am however using Bourne shell script to build these  
> little applications rather than Perl.  Is there an example of a  
> Bourne shell script equivalent to the perl scrip example provided?
>
> http://cocoadialog.sourceforge.net/examples/dropdown.pl.txt
>
> I would be appreciative of any assistance towards this end.
>
> Best Regards,

You need to play around a little.  There are examples provided of  
using CocoaDialog with shell scripts.  Take these, along with the  
documentation for the dropdown function and put together a shell  
script and test it out.

I tossed together the following script that duplicates the function of  
the Perl script that provides a dropdown menu.  Use it as an example.

#!/bin/sh

CD="/Applications/CocoaDialog.app/Contents/MacOS/CocoaDialog"

result=`$CD dropdown \
         --title "Preferred OS" \
         --no-newline \
         --items "Mac OS X"  "GNU/Linux" "Windows" \
         --button1 'That one!' \
         --button2 Nevermind`

return=`echo $result | awk '{print $1}'`
answer=`echo $result | awk '{print $2}'`

if [ $return -eq 1 ]; then
   echo "Answer: $answer"
fi
if [ $return -eq 2 ]; then
   echo "Nevermind"
fi

Please note, I make NO claims that this is a "good" script, nor do I  
like using "awk" in this manner, but it does seem to work.