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digitalmars.D.dwt - GUI text input dialog with few lines

reply Felipe Lema <felipelema topsort.com> writes:
Hey, D-langers

Is there a mostly-one-liner for getting text input (actually TOTP 
numbers) from user?

I'm looking into something like Qt's `QInputDialog::getText()` in 
which it returns a string and all things gui are handlend 
underneath (see code sample here: 
https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qinputdialog.html#details)

I was looking into DWT and dlangui without luck. Maybe they both 
have it, but it's called something else (TextFromUser, 
UserDialog...)?

I don't mind using any or other GUI framework, but I do aim to 
have a windows-exe-with-as-few-dlls-as-possible

Thanks y'all
Oct 20 2023
parent reply Adam D Ruppe <destructionator gmail.com> writes:
On Friday, 20 October 2023 at 20:43:21 UTC, Felipe Lema wrote:

 I don't mind using any or other GUI framework, but I do aim to 
 have a windows-exe-with-as-few-dlls-as-possible


My minigui.d can do this fairly easily:

```
import arsd.minigui;

void main() {
         // need to define the data you want in a struct,
         // it requires a struct even if you only want one item
         struct Data {
                 string code;
         }

         // then do the dialog function with the struct and it
         // auto-creates a dialog for all the parts of the struct
         // and calls the function you provide when the user hits 
OK
         dialog((Data received) {
                 // you got the number here
                 messageBox("You gave me " ~ received.code);

                 // note that if they hit cancel, this function is 
NOT
                 // called, the dialog is just closed without 
running
                 // this code.
         });

         // need to run the event loop explicitly, this will 
return when
         // all windows are closed
         EventLoop.get.run();
}
```

If you use dub you can add it as dependency:

https://code.dlang.org/packages/arsd-official%3Aminigui


arsd-official:minigui


If you don't use dub, it needs about 6 files out of the repo, but 
i suggest you clone the whole thing then use dmd -i.


But anyway, on Windows it uses the native text box so there's no 
dlls needed. On Linux, it uses my full custom stuff so no libs 
required there either.
Oct 20 2023
parent reply Felipe Lema <felipelema topsort.com> writes:
On Friday, 20 October 2023 at 21:03:53 UTC, Adam D Ruppe wrote:

 On Friday, 20 October 2023 at 20:43:21 UTC, Felipe Lema wrote:

 [...]


 My minigui.d can do this fairly easily:

 ```
 import arsd.minigui;

 [...]


O-M-D !

This is exactly what I needed. Many thanks
Oct 20 2023
parent reply Felipe Lema <felipelema topsort.com> writes:
On Friday, 20 October 2023 at 21:19:40 UTC, Felipe Lema wrote:

 On Friday, 20 October 2023 at 21:03:53 UTC, Adam D Ruppe wrote:

 On Friday, 20 October 2023 at 20:43:21 UTC, Felipe Lema wrote:

 [...]


 My minigui.d can do this fairly easily:

 ```
 import arsd.minigui;

 [...]


 O-M-D !

 This is exactly what I needed. Many thanks


Hey, I know this is stretching it out, but ... how can I do 
"Ctrl-v" to paste the clipboard content? (I'm mostly interested 
in windows, but any "handle ctrl-v with this code block" using 
`pbpaste` or `xclip` will do)
Oct 23 2023
next sibling parent Felipe Lema <felipelema topsort.com> writes:
On Monday, 23 October 2023 at 16:50:08 UTC, Felipe Lema wrote:

 On Friday, 20 October 2023 at 21:19:40 UTC, Felipe Lema wrote:

 On Friday, 20 October 2023 at 21:03:53 UTC, Adam D Ruppe wrote:

 On Friday, 20 October 2023 at 20:43:21 UTC, Felipe Lema wrote:

 [...]


 My minigui.d can do this fairly easily:

 ```
 import arsd.minigui;

 [...]


 O-M-D !

 This is exactly what I needed. Many thanks


 Hey, I know this is stretching it out, but ... how can I do 
 "Ctrl-v" to paste the clipboard content? (I'm mostly interested 
 in windows, but any "handle ctrl-v with this code block" using 
 `pbpaste` or `xclip` will do)


note: ctrl-v is working in windows automagically, but not in 
linux... can I do something like `handle("CTRL","v", ...)` ?
Oct 23 2023
prev sibling parent Adam D Ruppe <destructionator gmail.com> writes:
On Monday, 23 October 2023 at 16:50:08 UTC, Felipe Lema wrote:

 Hey, I know this is stretching it out, but ... how can I do 
 "Ctrl-v" to paste the clipboard content?


Ah, sorry, I missed this - I don't follow this forum daily (it 
was pure coincidence your first message came in when I happened 
to be looking at it, feel free to CC my destructionator gmail.com 
email if you need a quicker answer).

For text input, ctrl+v should just work automatically, it is 
handled by the widget itself. Can you check the version you have? 
On linux my thing was annoyingly buggy (like it'd usually work 
but not always) until i think version 11.1.

If we had to though you can add a addEventListener key press 
thing but it should just work...
Oct 28 2023