Any simple menuing dialogs callable from scripts?

[Christopher Browne]

On Dec 22, 2007 3:33 PM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>   Are there any simple menuing dialogs that are callable from scripts,
> without gaving to resort to C programming?

I'd look into dialog.

Grabbing from the man page:

       Dialog  is  a  program that will let you to present a variety
of questions or display messages using
       dialog boxes from a shell script.  These types of dialog boxes
are implemented (though not  all  are
       necessarily compiled into dialog):

              calendar, checklist, dselect, editbox, form, fselect,
gauge, infobox, inputbox, inputmenu,
              menu, mixedform, mixedgauge, msgbox (message),
passwordbox, passwordform, pause, progressbox,
              radiolist, tailbox, tailboxbg, textbox, timebox, and
yesno (yes/no).

This is what is typically used by Linux installation tools to provide
interactive configuration capabilities that are reasonably "user
friendly."

Here's an example of creating a list you can select items from:
 dialog --checklist "checklist" 40 80 8 t1 tag1 0 t2 tag2 1 t3 tag3 0 t4 tag4 1

I believe that RedHat created a version that uses the GTk toolkit to
give "Gooey goodness" with the very same coding interfaces.
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