Text input boxes with scripts and KDE

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 10:17:33 -0500
Joel Hammer <Joel at hammershome.com> wrote:

> I am writing some bash scripts. They will run in the background and when
> they detect certain conditions they will activate and do certain useful
> things.
> 
> I would like to be able to let these scripts send popup messages to the
> user and to allow the user to enter text for the program to process.
> 
> I am using X windows and KDE.
> 
> Is there a way to do this? If not with bash, can perl do this?

I personally would use tk, which is en extension to tcl.
However, I believe that there is a perl/Tk, providing the commands, but
accessable from perl.

A command something like:

	message .msg -message "Wake up" -type alert -icon question

pops up a message box of one of many types.

Check Perl/Tk. If you are doing this from bash, why not use Tcl? Still, the
message command is the same from both languages.

I bet if Tcl/Tk is installed on your distro (usually is), 'man message'
gives some info.

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