Thread: [GD-Linux] portable MessageBox

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Does anybody knows of a replacement for the win32 MessageBox function?

Thanks in advance,

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Ignacio Castaño
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On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 02:04:18 +0200, Ignacio Casta=F1o wrote:
> Does anybody knows of a replacement for the win32 MessageBox
> function?

Um, use wxWindows?

-Hook

Brian Hook wrote:
>>Does anybody knows of a replacement for the win32 MessageBox
>>function?
> 
> 
> Um, use wxWindows?

well, wx message box would be fine. My main concern is that I don't want 
to distribute the wx libraries (that are >1Mb) with my application. I 
have been thinking about using gtk, but it might not be available on the 
target machine either and in that case I would have the same problem. Do 
you know of a simpler library that just provides a messagebox on top of 
xlib only?

Now that I think about it, in this case fltk could be a better 
alternative, specially because it can be statically linked.

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Ignacio Castaño
cas...@ya...

> application. I have been thinking about using gtk, but it might not
> be available on the target machine either and in that case I would
> have the same problem. Do you know of a simpler library that just
> provides a messagebox on top of xlib only?

How about just extracting the source code you need from wxWindows, 
assuming the license allows that?  I'm sure deep down in there is 
probably a snippet you can use without carrying over all the other wx 
stuff.

Brian

Brian Hook wrote:
> How about just extracting the source code you need from wxWindows, 
> assuming the license allows that?  I'm sure deep down in there is 
> probably a snippet you can use without carrying over all the other wx 
> stuff.

I don't know how easy would that be. wxMessageBox seems to use the 
wxGenericMessageDialog class that depends on many wx headers: 
dialog/button/stattext/statbmp/layout/intl/icon/sizer/app...

Appart from that, wx still depends on gtk, so the problem remains.

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Ignacio Castaño
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> Appart from that, wx still depends on gtk, so the problem remains.

I swore wx-on-GTK was an _optional_ implementation?  If not, I guess 
there's always looking at fltk and GTK like you said.

Brian

Brian Hook wrote:
> I swore wx-on-GTK was an _optional_ implementation?  If not, I guess 
> there's always looking at fltk and GTK like you said.

Yes, you are right, there's a wxX11 backend for wxUniversal, that uses 
only xlib calls. I don't know if it's mature enough, though. I will give 
it a try to see which options suits better my needs.

Thanks for your help.

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Ignacio Castaño
cas...@ya...

Hi,

I've finally found a very simple solution that should work on most cases.

Currently most distributions provide dialog programs, those programs are 
designed to be used from shell scripts, and provide a very simple 
interface to create different kind of dialogs. Some examples of those 
programs are: kdialog, zenity and xdialog.

So, to create a simple message box, you can do:

system( format("kdialog --title %s --msgbox %s", title, text) );

If none of those programs are available, you can still use a little 
utility called xmessage that I think should be available on most systems.

Hope that helps,

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Ignacio Castaño
cas...@ya...

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