Messageboxes and dialogs

[rdbende]

TODO:

• Messageboxes
  • Native dialogs when native theme is used
  • Custom dialogs when app is themed (Sun-Valley-messageboxes)
• Filedialogs
  • Open file
  • Save file
  • Select directory
• Color selection
• Input dialog
  • String
  • Number
  • Slider
• Font chooser
  • Native dialogs on Windows and mac
  • Custom font chooser on X11
• Calendar dialog
• About dialog
• Task dialog
• Progress dialog
• Notifications
• Credentials dialog
• Print dialog
• Custom dialog API

Implementation:

• Use KDialog if available
• Use Zenity if available
• Use notify-send if available

[Moosems]

Can we try and add the Mac printer dialog? It would also be nice to have a built-in way to make dialogs

[rdbende]

It would also be nice to have a built-in way to make dialogs

Yup, it isn't in the TODO, but actually I've implemented it.

Can we try and add the Mac printer dialog?

Definitely, amazing good idea! I'll have to do some research, because it's probably not that straightforward, but it would be nice to have a print dialog (not only on Mac :)

[Moosems]

Definitely, amazing good idea! I'll have to do some research, because it's probably not that straightforward, but it would be nice to have a print dialog (not only on Mac :)

Yeah its not built into tk and haven't been able to find anything yet but that would be an amazing add

[rdbende]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72370788/bring-up-macos-print-file-dialog

@Moosems Here are your requested links:

• https://github.com/tcltk/tk/blob/main/library/print.tcl
• https://github.com/tcltk/tk/blob/main/macosx/tkMacOSXPrint.c

I haven't read through them, just found the files, but it looks like there is indeed going to be some printing stuff in Tk8.7

https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Tcl/Tk+Printing+Support

[Moosems]

That's awesome! You know that TRCK on stackoverflow is me right?

[rdbende]

Yes :)

[Moosems]

Haha I just thought it was kinda funny how you had pulled up my question

[Moosems]

How can I call messageboxes?

[rdbende]

In theory you could do this:

from tukaan.dialogs import FileDialog


dir = FileDialog.get_directory()

file_to_open = FileDialog.get_open_filenames()
file_to_save = FileDialog.get_save_filenames()


with FileDialog.get_open_file() as file:
    print(file.read())

with FileDialog.get_save_file() as file:
    file.write("asdf")

but something is broken, so you can't ATM.

Edit: Yea, these aren't messageboxes, but only filedialogs are implemented currently.

[Moosems]

Oh ok. How can I help get them working?

[rdbende]

At the moment I don't you could help, because I don't know what causes the error either. But if you can figure it out, then...

[Moosems]

Ok. Where is the code for it located?

[rdbende]

https://github.com/tukaan/tukaan/blob/424570b7b938cedf4a47e3eeb6cc2f6dcd23fd68/tukaan/dialogs/filedialog.py

[Moosems]

Thanks

[rdbende]

Windows toast notifications: https://github.com/mohabouje/WinToast