YAD

I was looking for an upgraded Zenity when I found YAD.

I was looking for a version that allows boxes to be pre-populated with defaults.

YAD is a graphical dialog program for shell scripts.

Th first websiteI found was discussing Puppy Linux menus (https://www.linux.org/threads/create-a-simple-gui-to-run-scripts-from.44473/).

From there I when to http://smokey01.com/yad/, this was a basic beginners guide.

I tried a simple script:

#!/bin/bash

RESULT=$(yad --borders=10 --title="simple form" --text="Please enter:"\
  --form --field="Last Name": "AlanX" --field="First Repo" --field="Date"\
)

echo $RESULT

Worked great. YAD was even installed by default.

This website has all the documentation (https://yad-guide.ingk.se/YAD_Guide.html).

I found that the "HTML" option did not work, but I believe the option needs to be turned on during compilation.

The format of the results string will make interfacing in C simpler.

AlanX