From: 12 34 <rubyforum@...>
Date: 2007-07-29T08:40:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Best OS-X GUI creator for non-programmer

John Joyce wrote:
> On Jul 28, 2007, at 5:11 PM, 12 34 wrote:
> 
>>
>> OK found it. CocoaDialog. 
>> And it can be used directly from Ruby.
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>>
> Cool, let me know how it goes with that! I myself would like to try
> using it in the near future.

http://cocoadialog.sourceforge.net/

The download is one file, a Mac application which I put in my Utilities 
folder

Here's a cleaned up testing script I put together from the Perl examples 
(TextMate just crashed on me and now won't run scripts, so I hope this 
script is all good. I was doing some final polishing before posting.):

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# The Perl script seemed to have a path to the file, but
# Ruby / OS X seems to have found it without any help.

response = `CocoaDialog yesno-msgbox --title "Delete backups--test 1" 
--text "Delete all the backups?" --informative-text "This cannot be 
un-done"`
puts "Delete backups--test 1"
puts response

response2 =`CocoaDialog inputbox --title "Search--Test 2" --no-newline 
--informative-text "Enter your search term"   --text "foobar"  --button1 
"Search" --button2 "Search all"    --width 600`
puts "Search--Test 2"
puts response2
puts

searchText = "foobar"
resp=`CocoaDialog inputbox --title "Search--Test 3" --no-newline 
--informative-text "Enter your search term"   --text #{searchText} 
--button1 "Search" --button2 "Search all" --width 600`
response4 = resp.split
puts "Search--Test 3"
if response4[0]=="1"
  puts " You asked to search for #{response4[1]}"
elsif response4[0]=="2"
   puts " You asked to search ALL for #{response4[1]}."
else
   puts "response4[0]: #{response4[0]}, but not working like it should. 
"
end
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