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CocoaDialog

by Scott McNulty Nov 18th 2005 at 10:00AM

CocoaDialogHow many times has thing happened to you? You've just put the finishing touches on a sweet shell script that you want to roll out to your entire enterprise, but you know that most of y our users aren't going to want to launch Terminal to input the answers that your script requires. If only there was some way of  accessing commonly used OS X GUI elements  with your shell script without having to use Applescript.

Enter CocoaDialog, which let's you do exactly that. This opensource project looks like it has been languishing a bit, but hopefully development will pick up soon.
 

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spiralscratch

Or, make a simple little app using AppleScript Studio in xCode (or whatever the whole setup may be called now). Just use basic "do shell script" calls to the script contained within the .app.

November 18 2005 at 3:19 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
cpryce

Pashua looks similar, though I haven't used either one to compare: http://www.bluem.net/downloads/pashua_en/

November 18 2005 at 11:57 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
brian

You can name any shell script with a '.command' suffix and it will run when double-clicked.

November 18 2005 at 10:26 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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