osdialog-zig

Cross-platform utility module for Zig to open native dialogs for the filesystem, message boxes, color-picking.

Quickstart

• Installation
• Usage
  • Example
• Credits

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Installation

# ~/<ProjectsPath>/your-awesome-projct
zig fetch --save https://github.com/ttytm/osdialog-zig/archive/main.tar.gz

// your-awesome-projct/build.zig
const std = @import("std");

pub fn build(b: *std.Build) void {
	// ..
	const osdialog_dep = b.dependency("osdialog", .{});
	const exe = b.addExecutable(.{
		.name = "your-awesome-projct",
		// ..
	});
	exe.root_module.addImport("osdialog", osdialog_dep.module("osdialog"));
	// ...
}

Usage

Ref.: osdialog-zig/src/lib.zig

/// Opens a message box and returns `true` if `OK` or `Yes` was pressed.
pub fn message(text: [*:0]const u8, opts: MessageOptions) bool

/// Opens an input prompt with an "OK" and "Cancel" button.
pub fn prompt(allocator: std.mem.Allocator, text: [*:0]const u8, opts: PromptOptions) ?[:0]u8

/// Opens an RGBA color picker and returns the selected `Color` or `null` if the selection was canceled.
pub fn color(options: ColorPickerOptions) ?Color

/// Opens a file dialog and returns the selected path or `null` if the selection was canceled.
pub fn path(allocator: std.mem.Allocator, action: PathAction, options: PathOptions) ?[:0]u8

Example

Ref.: osdialog-zig/examples/src/main.zig

const std = @import("std");
const osd = @import("osdialog");

pub fn main() void {
	var gpa = std.heap.GeneralPurposeAllocator(.{}){};
	const allocator = gpa.allocator();
	defer _ = gpa.deinit();

	_ = osd.message("Hello, World!", .{});
	if (!osd.message("Do you want to continue?", .{ .buttons = .yes_no })) {
		std.process.exit(0);
	}
	if (osd.prompt(allocator, "Give me some input", .{})) |input| {
		defer allocator.free(input);
		std.debug.print("Input: {s}\n", .{input});
	}
	if (osd.color(.{ .color = .{ .r = 247, .g = 163, .b = 29, .a = 255 } })) |selected| {
		std.debug.print("Color RRR,GGG,BBB,AAA: {d},{d},{d},{d}\n", .{ selected.r, selected.g, selected.b, selected.a });
	}
	if (osd.path(allocator, .open, .{})) |path| {
		defer allocator.free(path);
		std.debug.print("Selected file: {s}\n", .{path});
	}
	if (osd.path(allocator, .open_dir, .{})) |path| {
		defer allocator.free(path);
	}
	if (osd.path(allocator, .save, .{ .path = ".", .filename = "myfile.txt" })) |path| {
		defer allocator.free(path);
		std.debug.print("Save location: {s}\n", .{path});
	}
}

# osdialog/examples
zig build run

Credits

• AndrewBelt/osdialog - The C project this library is leveraging