Creating dialog box in HPUX

[Henry Chua]

Hi Guys,

May I know what is the simplest way to create a dialog box with an [ok] button for u to click to close it (common in window base program) in HPUX?

Thanks!!

[Senthil Kumar .A_1 · Accepted solution]

Hi Henry,

The answer entirely depends on, where u want the buttons/widget to be displayed. In HPUX u could come across 3 scenarios..

1) Command prompt: This can be widely termed as TUI(terminal user interface) environment. For you creation you need TCL toolkit that could be downloaded from the following link...

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Tcl/tcltk-8.4.11/

2) GUI: You have 2 options ..

a) Ximian gnome,

You will have to install the GTK+ graphics libraries and gnome from you Application CD that accompanies you core OS CD/DVD for 11i.

for more details.. refer..

http://docs.hp.com/en/GNOME/

b) CDE

Not very intuitive though, I havent tried what you are attempting to in CDE,.. I hope the following link could be some help...

http://www.cs.arizona.edu/computer.help/policy/DIGITAL_unix/ProgrammersGuide/programmersguide_3.html

Regards,
Senthil Kumar .A

[blubrick]

Hi Henry,

In addition to the tcl option above, there's a nice little utility simply called dialog. Another TUI solution, it's available from http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Shells/dialog-0.9b/
or from http://invisible-island.net/dialog/ if you prefer to compile the source yoursef. dialog provides a simple way of creating a range of dialog-boxes from simple yes/no questions to more complex radio buttons, picklists, and scrollable text viewers.

There used to be a similar but simpler Motif program under HP-UX 10.20 called xdialog, but I'm not sure whether it still exists under 11.0 and later. "man xdialog" will give details if it still exists.

Good luck

[Muthukumar_5]

To give simply solution use html + javascript and put into web server or run in web browser. It is easy and simply solution to create dialog box with an ok button.


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Muthu

[Oviwan]

Hi

check this link, there are some GUI examples:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=984784

Regards

[NARENDRA JG]

Hi

You can also use Tcl/Tk script to create the dialog box.

naren