zenity/src/gdialog

#!/usr/bin/perl

# gdialog -> zenity conversion wrapper
#
# by Mike Newman <mikegtn@gnome.org>
#
# This is all, of course, horrible - but it should translate
# most commond gdialog types to zenity equivalents. It will drop
# the pointless and unused (even by gdialog!) size arguments
# but hopefully will pass all the others.
#
# For testing purposes, I've used a couple of the nautilus scripts
# available at http://g-scripts.sourceforge.net - what is sometimes
# unclear is what is a gdialog/zenity translation problem, and what is
# a problem with the script

my $command = "zenity ";	# the command line we build up to execute
my $element = "";		# current bit of command line
my $argn = 0;			# counter for walking args
my $args = $#ARGV + 1;		# total number of command line arguments

# this just loads the current arg into $element

sub get_arg () { 
	$element = $ARGV[$argn];
}

# walk the command line

ARG: while ($argn < $args) {

	get_arg;
	
	if ($element eq "--title") {
	
		# --title argument is almost analogous in gdialog and
		# zenity - so pass it almost entirely as is
		
		$argn++;
		get_arg;
		$command .= "--title=\"$element\" ";
		$argn++;
		
		# keep processing args
		
		next ARG;
	}
	
	if ($element eq "--msgbox" || $element eq "--infobox") {
	
		# This bit is common to almost all of the dialogs
		# the arg following the dialog type in gdialog is usually
		# equivalent to zenity's --text arg.
		
		$argn++;
		get_arg;
		$command .= "--info --text=\"$element\" ";
		
		# this also happens a lot - gdialog accepted size args
		# for dialog compatability - which it pretty much ignored
		# and we will do the same
 
		$argn+=2;
		last ARG;
	}
	
	if ($element eq "--yesno") {

		# this will silently ignore the gdialog option to set
		# the default button in question dialogs - which is
		# highly hig-norant anyway!
		
		$argn++;
		get_arg;
		$command .= "--question --text=\"$element\" ";
		last ARG;
	}
	
	if ($element eq "--inputbox") {
		$argn++;
		get_arg;
		$command .= "--entry --text=\"$element\" ";
		
		# ignore size elements and maybe there is some
		# default text to initialize the entry with?
		
		$argn+=3;
		get_arg;
		$command .= "--entry-text=\"$element\" ";
		last ARG;
	}
	
	if ($element eq "--textbox") {
		$argn++;
		get_arg;
		$command .= "--text-info ";
		
		# the arg immediately following the dialog type in
		# gdialog is the filename, so pass this to zenity
		
		$argn++;
		get_arg;
		$command .= "--filename=\"$element\" ";
		last ARG;
	}
	
	if ($element eq "--checklist" || $element eq "--radiolist") {
		$list=$element;
		$argn++;
		get_arg;
		
		# Conveniently, zenity and gdialog use the same names
		# for list types, so pass this to zenity intact along with
		# an untitled column for the check or radio buttons
		
		$command .= "--list $list --column='' --column $element ";
			
		# Skip to the first 'name' arg of the list content

		$argn += 6; 
		
		# Loop over the remainder of the commandline
		# discarding the 'status' and 'tag' args of each item 
		# and using the 'name' for display in our second column
		
		while ($argn < $args) {
			get_arg;
			$command .= "$element ";
			$argn += 3;
		}
		last ARG;
	} 
	
	if ($element eq "--gauge") {
		$argn++;
		get_arg;
		$command .= "--progress --text=\"$element\" ";
		
		# discard the size args as usually, and see if
		# a percentage value was supplied to initialize the
		# dialog
		
		$argn += 3;
		get_arg;
		if ($element) {
			$command .= "--percentage=$element ";
		}
		last ARG;
	}
	
	$argn++;
}

# execute the constructed zenity command line
 
system($command);