Text Entry Dialog

• Zenity Manual

Use the --entry option to create a text entry dialog. Zenity returns the contents of the text entry to standard output.

The text entry dialog supports the following options: --text=text

Specifies the text that is displayed in the text entry dialog. --entry-text=text

Specifies the text that is displayed in the entry field of the text entry dialog.--hide-text

Hides the text in the entry field of the text entry dialog.

The following example script shows how to create a text entry dialog:

        #!/bin/sh

        if zenity --entry \
        --title="Add an Entry" \
        --text="Enter your _password:" \
        --entry-text "password" \
        --hide-text
          then echo $?
          else echo "No password entered"
        fi

Figure 10 Text Entry Dialog Example