dialog Alternatives

dialog is described as 'Display dialog boxes from shell scripts. Curses based. Works in console mode' and is a Shell in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to dialog for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD and Python apps. The best dialog alternative is Zenity, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like dialog are Modern Message Box Generator, Glade, Yad and KDialog.

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dialog alternatives page was last updated Nov 18, 2020

gxmessage
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a GTK-based xmessage clone.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Shell
Origin
United Kingdom
Platforms
Windows
Linux
Is gxmessage a good alternative to dialog?
xmessage
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display a message or query in a window (X-based /bin/echo).
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Shell
Platforms
Linux
Is xmessage a good alternative to dialog?
Batch MessageBox
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This is a tiny hack to display message boxes from Windows batch files and command line programs. There are many like it but the developer didn't find any that was open source, non-copyleft and had no external dependencies (.NET Framework, GTK+, etc.).
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Platforms
Windows
Is Batch MessageBox a good alternative to dialog?
CocoaDialog
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CocoaDialog is an OS X application that allows the use of common GUI controls such as file selectors, text input, progress bars, yes/no confirmations and more with a command-line application. It requires no knowledge of Cocoa, and is ideal for use in shell and Perl scripts (or...
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Shell
Origin
United States
Platforms
Mac
Is CocoaDialog a good alternative to dialog?
XRCed
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XRCed is a simple resource editor for wxWidgets/wxPython GUI development which supports creating and editing files in XRC format It is written in Python and uses wxPython GUI toolkit.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Alerts
Discontinued
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
Is XRCed a good alternative to dialog?
DialogBlocks
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Anthemion DialogBlocks is a sizer-based resource editor that quickly gets you creating professional-looking dialogs, wizards and frames for deployment on Windows, Linux, Mac or any other supported wxWidgets platform.
Cost / License
Free
Proprietary
Origin
United Kingdom
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
Is DialogBlocks a good alternative to dialog?
9menu
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create a menu to run commands.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Shell
Platforms
Linux
Is 9menu a good alternative to dialog?
xdialog
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Xdialog is designed to be a drop in replacement for the "dialog" or "cdialog" programs. It converts any terminal based program into a program with an X-windows interface. The dialogs are easier to see and use while adding even more functionalities (e.g.
22 xdialog alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Shell
Platforms
Windows
Linux
Is xdialog a good alternative to dialog?
Gtkdialog
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Gtkdialog is a small utility for fast and easy GUI building. It can be used to create dialog boxes for almost any interpreted and compiled programs which is a very attractive feature since the developer does not have to learn various GUI languages for the miscellaneous...
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Shell
Platforms
Linux
Is Gtkdialog a good alternative to dialog?
PyDialog
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My problem was that the KDialog code is still not ported to Qt5 and it depends on various Qt4/KDE4 components. The kdialog has big dependency sizes so we made an alternate dialogs like kdialog switches, options.
9 PyDialog alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Origin
Hungary
EU
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
Python
Qt
Is PyDialog a good alternative to dialog?