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Today's Topics:

  1. Bourne Shell Script Equivalent to Perl Script    Sample for
     CocoaDialog Dropdown (Thomas Patko)
  2. Re: Bourne Shell Script Equivalent to Perl    Script Sample for
     CocoaDialog Dropdown (Bill Larson)
  3. Re: Bourne Shell Script Equivalent to Perl    Script Sample for
     CocoaDialog Dropdown (Thomas Patko)
  4. Re: Bourne Shell Script Equivalent to Perl    Script Sample for
     CocoaDialog Dropdown (Bill Larson)

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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 11:35:17 -0800
From: "Thomas Patko" <tp...@gm...>
Subject: [Cocoadialog-users] Bourne Shell Script Equivalent to Perl
   Script    Sample for CocoaDialog Dropdown
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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,

Thomas Patko
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:27:10 -0700
From: Bill Larson <wl...@sw...>
Subject: Re: [Cocoadialog-users] Bourne Shell Script Equivalent to
   Perl    Script Sample for CocoaDialog Dropdown
To: Thomas Patko <tp...@gm...>
Cc: coc...@li...
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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.
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:44:04 -0800
From: "Thomas Patko" <tp...@gm...>
Subject: Re: [Cocoadialog-users] Bourne Shell Script Equivalent to
   Perl    Script Sample for CocoaDialog Dropdown
To: "Bill Larson" <wl...@sw...>
Cc: coc...@li...
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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.

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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 04:13:49 -0700
From: Bill Larson <wl...@sw...>
Subject: Re: [Cocoadialog-users] Bourne Shell Script Equivalent to
   Perl    Script Sample for CocoaDialog Dropdown
To: "Thomas Patko" <tp...@gm...>
Cc: coc...@li...
Message-ID: <316...@sw...>
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On Nov 30, 2008, at 11:44 PM, Thomas Patko wrote:

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.

An alternative, without using "awk", and having a "case...esac"  
statement to display the selected answer:

#!/bin/sh

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

result=`$CD dropdown \
    --title "Preferred OS" \
    --items "Mac OS X" "GNU/Linux" "Windows" \
    --button1 "That one!" \
    --button2 Nevermind`

return=`echo $result | cut -d" " -f1`
answer=`echo $result | cut -d" " -f2`

if [ $return -eq 1 ]; then
    case $answer in
        0)  echo "Mac OS X";;
        1)  echo "GNU/Linux";;
        2)  echo "Windows";;
    esac
else
    echo "Nevermind"
fi

The "--no-newline" really isn't necessary.  I originally included it  
because the original Perl script had it there.  I am using "cut" to  
parse the output rather than "awk".

My complaint with using "awk" is that it is a fairly heavy handed  
approach to a problem.  It is great when you need to do a lot of  
processing of the input but has a tremendous amount of overhead to use  
when the processing is quite simple.

I'm actually very impressed to see that someone is USING this mailing  
list.  The inactivity on this list implies that not much is happening  
with CocoaDialog, which I'm glad to see isn't totally correct.

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