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From: Brian Drummond <brian@shapes.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Qt or Gtk? (from an Ada perspective)
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:14:30 +0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 02:49:33 -0700, alb348 wrote:

>> Zenity looks interesting indeed. Only, it does not seem to support text
>> edit boxes (unless I am mistaken), which I really need.
> 
> I can now confirm it, after checking more thoroughly: no text edit boxes
> in Zenity. Too bad, because otherwise it would have been perfect for my
> needs.

Did you notice the text-info dialog has an --editable option?

> I am afraid that for a decent text edit box, the compelled choice will
> be either Qt or Gtk, after all.

for short text entry (single string, not necessarily single line)
zenity --entry \
--title="Add new profile" \
--text="Enter name of new profile:" \
--entry-text "NewProfile"

for text from file 
zenity --text-info \
       --title="Edit Me" \
       --editable \
       --width=640 \
       --height=480 \
       --filename=fred.txt 

May not be fancy enough but they certainly exist and they work.

- Brian