How to capture button click in YAD? SOLVED

[wizard]

Just started using yad and read smokey01's tutorial which is great. I did not see an example of how to capture the OKCancel button clicks.

Thanks
wizard

[fredx181]

Just started using yad and read smokey01's tutorial which is great. I did not see an example of how to capture the OKCancel button clicks.

Thanks
wizard

Hi wizard, after the yad command;
[ $? -ne 0 ] && exit (exit if not equal to 0)
So will exit when clicking Cancel ($? is return value, in case of Cancel it will return value 1, so exit the script)
The OK button will return value 0, so then the script will continue.
EDIT: But if you mean how to capture a variable output from yad, that's another thing and possibly required that you share your code.

[snoring_cat]

Hi fredx181,

continuing on with what wizard said, there is another way to interact with buttons. You can run actions, such as call a function, when a button is clicked. However, wizard's methods of interaction are more commonly used.

As an FYI, I have made new YAD documentation in Notecase format. It is at https://github.com/w00fpack/YAD_Guides.

[wizard]

@fredx181

When I run this in a script and click OK I get no echo message in the terminal. Something wrong?

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yad [ $? -ne 0 ] && exit
echo OK was clicked

Thanks
Wizard

[snoring_cat]

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yad [ $? -ne 0 ] && exit
echo OK was clicked

Usually OK returns 0 and Cancel returns 1. Not sure why it reverses with your example. maybe yad and the [ ] sections are being evaluated instead of just [ ].

For your example, the code can be shortened to

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yad && exit
echo OK was clicked

This alternate example might be helpful if your buttons have different return codes

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yad
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
  exit
else
  echo OK was clicked
fi

[MochiMoppel]

When I run this in a script and click OK I get no echo message in the terminal. Something wrong?

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yad [ $? -ne 0 ] && exit
echo OK was clicked

You need a ; after yad:

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yad ; [ $? -ne 0 ] && exit

For your example, the code can be shortened to

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yad && exit
echo OK was clicked

Should be rather

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yad || exit
echo OK was clicked

[wizard]

@MochiMoppel

syntax, syntax, syntax, rules, rules, rules

drives me crazy, LOL

Merry Christmas

Thanks
wizard