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

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

Hello Bill:

Thank you very much for the Bourne shell script code and concept.  I agree
that it is not necessarily the most elegant approach but the combination of
--no-newline and the awk '{print $X}' code reliably script out the multiple
variables passed back by CocoaDialog.  I have made it work quite well for my
application, wherein I was only really interested in the second variable.

Cheers,

Thomas

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 9:27 PM, Bill Larson <wl...@sw...> wrote:

> 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.
>