Questions tagged [dialog]
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Is there a Mac OSX equivalent of zenity?
I'm porting some simple X windows/bash scripts to Mac OSX, but I cannot find a build of Zenity (a Gnome app for basic GUI dialogs) for OSX. Is there some other command line driven dialog utility I can use? Basic operations:
notification dialog…
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How to quit without saving using just the keyboard?
When I quit an application (e.g., Excel) with Command-Q, a dialog box pops up, asking me to select between don't save, cancel and save.
I can hit Enter to select save, or I can navigate the mouse to don't save, but how do I get that without the…
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Big Sur - unresponsive dialogs to mouse actions
Sometimes at the beginning of 2021, I started to have a problem with the "File upload" dialogs in the web browser. The dialog is unresponsive to the mouse. I can use the keyboard for navigation, but the Tab key only switches between the left panel…
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What is the "Sign in with Apple ID - The password for "" needs to be updated" dialog?
I just encountered the dialog below. It looks a bit suspicious to me and I am wondering whether it is an authentical or some scam/virus. It just popped up after I had an issue with my computer running out of (application) space and I had to restart…
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Make iTunes stop prompting me for my username and password
On OSX Lion, iTunes keeps prompting me to enter my username and password to "sign in to enable this computer for automatic downloads." In the past I tried checking the box to remember my password but it kept forgetting, so now I just disabled the…
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Always show hidden in Open/Save dialogs
Is it possible to set by default to show hidden files and folders in Open and Save dialogs ?
I know it is possible to trigger to show hidden for dialog lifetime by press Command ⌘+Shift ⇧+..
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applescript: get answer and buttons of display dialog
How do I get both the answer and the button pressed of a display dialog on applescript?
The following code will get me the text, but not the button:
set myquestion to the text returned of (display dialog "hallo" ¬
buttons {"h", "a"}…
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Applescript - wait for window/dialog to appear/disappear
I am scripting iTunes and have bumped into two problems when I in one step of my script need to verify wether windows/dialogs are displayed or not.
According to Waiting until a window exists in Applescript? this should be valid code
repeat until…
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AppleScript progress bar bug: How to prevent progress dialog from lingering?
The bug:
When AppleScript's progress dialog is succeeded by a dialog, the progress dialog still lingers—even though all progress steps have completed, and the progress bar is full. It will linger until the script has been cancelled, until the script…
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How do you specify the type of file you're looking for in an 'open file' dialog with a pattern?
On every other operating system except MacOS, when you bring up an Open File dialog, you can type (for example) *.txt or even *recipe*.txt to narrow down the list shown on the screen.
On MacOS, there's just a predefined list of filename extensions…
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Prevent Open/Save dialog from solliciting external hard drives
I have several external drives, which I don't use constantly, and so they spin down, and rest.
Unfortunately for me, every time I have the "Open..." or "Save..." dialogs, Mac OS X spins these hard drives back up, even if the currently displayed…
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Banish "You have forced XXX to quit" from showing on my screen again
I never want to see this popup on my computer again.
Is it possible to prevent "do not ask again" this type of dialog?
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Can't select files or folders in dialog box
Every time I want to save or open a file from any program (Chrome, Keynote, Numbers, Safari,...) on my 2021 MBP, when the dialog box opens I can't click on any of the folders or files, nor can I click on the filename for changing it. I can only…
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macOS Catalina: "file already exists, replace it?" popup, how to select Replace with keyboard?
When trying to save a file that already exists, macOS typically shows the "File already exists, replace it?" popup, like this:
In previous versions of macOS (like Mojave, High Sierra, etc) I was always able to choose either Cancel or Replace using…
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Codesign dialog does not allow "accept"
Whenever I run codesign from the command line (or a pre-existing script tries to run it) – e.g. by running codesign -s "Local Developer" foo the following dialog appears.
Clicking 'Deny' cancels it just fine, but clicking 'Allow' or 'Always Allow'…
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