Zerenity¶ ↑

Version¶ ↑

1.5.0

Author¶ ↑

Farrel Lifson www.lifson.info www.aimred.com

Contributors¶ ↑

Daniel Lucraft www.daniellucraft.com
Kacper Cieśla (comboy)

Synopsis¶ ↑

Zerenity is an almost clone of Zenity(freshmeat.net/projects/zenity) for Ruby. It allows for the easy creation of simple graphical dialogs from a Ruby script.

Features¶ ↑

Zerenity allows for the creation of the following dialogs

Date selection
Text entry
Error display
File/directory selection
Information display
List display and selection
Progress display
Question display
Text information display and editing
Warning display
Sliding scales
Color selection

Dependencies¶ ↑

Zerenity requires GTK2(www.gtk.org) and Ruby/GTK2(ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi).

Installation¶ ↑

Zerenity is avaiable as a Ruby gem. Links to the latest release can be found at www.aimred.com/files/projects/zerenity.

The code is also available via it’s Github repository at github.com/farrel/zerenity/tree/master

Example Usage¶ ↑

User Input and Display¶ ↑

require 'zerenity'

if (name = Zerenity::Entry(:text=>"What is your name?"))
  Zerenity::Info(:text=>"Hello #{name}")
else
  puts "No name entered"
end

Progress¶ ↑

require 'zerenity'

fileList = filesToProcess(folder)
Zerenity::Progress(:text=>'Processing files',:autoClose=>true) do |progress|
 fileList.each_index do |file,index|
   processFile(file)
   progress.update(index/fileList.length,"#{100*index/fileList.length}% processed...")
 end
end

License¶ ↑

Zerenity is released under the BSD license.

farrel/zerenity