The EasyDialogs module contains some simple dialogs for
the Macintosh. All routines have an optional parameter id with
which you can override the DLOG resource used for the dialog, as long
as the item numbers correspond. See the source for details.
The EasyDialogs module defines the following functions:
Ask the user to input a string value, in a modal dialog. prompt
is the prompt message, the optional default arg is the initial
value for the string. All strings can be at most 255 bytes
long. AskString() returns the string entered or None
in case the user cancelled.
Ask the user to input a string value, in a modal dialog. Like
AskString, but with the text shown as bullets. prompt
is the prompt message, the optional default arg is the initial
value for the string. All strings can be at most 255 bytes
long. AskString() returns the string entered or None
in case the user cancelled.
Present a dialog with text question and three buttons labelled
``yes'', ``no'' and ``cancel''. Return 1 for yes, 0 for
no and -1 for cancel. The default return value chosen by
hitting return is 0. This can be changed with the optional
default argument.
Display a modeless progress dialog with a thermometer bar. title
is the text string displayed (default ``Working...''), maxval is
the value at which progress is complete (default
100). label is the text that is displayed over the progress
bar itself. The returned object has two methods,
set(value), which sets the value of the progress bar, and
label(text), which sets the text of the label. The bar
remains visible until the object returned is discarded.
The progress bar has a ``cancel'' button. [NOTE: how does the cancel
button behave?]
Displays a dialog which aids the user in constructing a command-line
argument list. Returns the list in sys.argv format, suitable for
passing as an argument to getopt.getopt(). addoldfile,
addnewfile, and addfolder are boolean arguments. When
nonzero, they enable the user to insert into the command line paths to
an existing file, a (possibly) not-yet-existent file, and a folder,
respectively. (Note: Option arguments must appear in the command line
before file and folder arguments in order to be recognized by
getopt.getopt().) Arguments containing spaces can be
specified by enclosing them within single or double quotes. A
SystemExit exception is raised if the user presses the
``Cancel'' button.
optionlist is a list that determines a popup menu from which the
allowed options are selected. Its items can take one of two forms:
optstr or (optstr, descr). When present,
descr is a short descriptive string that is displayed in the
dialog while this option is selected in the popup menu. The
correspondence between optstrs and command-line arguments is:
optstr format
Command-line format
x
-x (short option)
x: or x=
-x (short option with value)
xyz
--xyz (long option)
xyz: or xyz=
--xyz (long option with value)
commandlist is a list of items of the form cmdstr or
(cmdstr, descr), where descr is as above. The
cmdstrs will appear in a popup menu. When chosen, the text of
cmdstr will be appended to the command line as is, except that a
trailing ":" or "=" (if present) will be trimmed
off.