Folder selection/creation with Zenity or similar

pickarooney

I'm trying to make a script a little more user-friendly by letting him/her select a folder to copy files into or create one if it doesn't exist. I've been able to use Zenity to select a specific file but there doesn't seem to be an option for folders. Is there any other similar packages to zenity that will allow folder creation or a hidden option in zenity?

Johnboy1951

--directory option appears to be what you need .... ?

From the man page ....

File selection options
--filename=FILENAME
Set the file or directory to be selected by default
--multiple
Allow selection of multiple filenames in file selection dialog
--directory
Activate directory-only selection
--save
Activate save mode
--separator=SEPARATOR
Specify separator character when returning multiple filenames
--confirm-overwrite
Confirm file selection if filename already exists
--file-filter=NAME | PATTERN1 PATTERN2
Sets a filename filter

zenity --file-selection --directory

pickarooney

Ah, a command within a command. I needed to go deeper than the --help switch. Thanks!

pickarooney

Still on zenity, does anyone know how or if it's possible to get the progress bar to work for file copying? It just seems to have two states, empty and full, when I pass a copy job to it, either with a large file or a set of small files.

Johnboy1951

pickarooney wrote: »

Still on zenity, does anyone know how or if it's possible to get the progress bar to work for file copying? It just seems to have two states, empty and full, when I pass a copy job to it, either with a large file or a set of small files.

Try something like this ....

	(
        echo ; sleep 3 

<copy command or a series of commands>

	echo ; sleep 3
	) |
		zenity --window-icon=$ICON --progress --pulsate --title="   $TITLE   " --text " <Your text here>" --auto-close --auto-kill ;

Note: That is a 'pipe' after the closing bracket. Replace the variables with your own of course.

Hope that works for you.

regards.

pickarooney

I had tried it with just one sleep 1 command inside a copy for loop but I'll fiddle around with longer settings and see.

Johnboy1951

pickarooney wrote: »

I had tried it with just one sleep 1 command inside a copy for loop but I'll fiddle around with longer settings and see.

The sleep commands should make no difference.
Watch the syntax and it should work .... run in a terminal to see if it reports errors.

Try this small script to see if it runs and closes properly

#!/bin/bash

(
        echo ; sleep 3 

echo  # in place of a command

	echo ; sleep 3
	) |
		zenity  --progress --pulsate --width=360 --title="   TEST   " --text "             Test Progress Window" --auto-close --auto-kill ;

EDIT:
Omitting 'auto-close' will cause the progress window to stay displayed until you click the 'OK' button.

pickarooney

Your test example works fine but with the following (just moving photos from a camera to hard drive) I get the same as earlier - just 0 progress for ages and then complete.

(
mv $CAM/DCIM/*/*.* "$DIRPATH"/tmp
echo; sleep 1
)|zenity --progress --pulsate --width=360 --title="File Copy " --text "Copying files..." --auto-close

Johnboy1951

pickarooney wrote: »

Your test example works fine but with the following (just moving photos from a camera to hard drive) I get the same as earlier - just 0 progress for ages and then complete.

(
mv $CAM/DCIM/*/*.* "$DIRPATH"/tmp
echo; sleep 1
)|zenity --progress --pulsate --width=360 --title="File Copy " --text "Copying files..." --auto-close

I would suspect the command so .... for instance it works fine here when moving files between partition.

Does the command work without the progress window?

Is the source path OK? Are there any spaces in the path?
Maybe enclose the source path in "<path>" ?

Is the destination writeable by the owner of the script?

I suggest you create a small script with static paths .... or use the variables and apply the path to the variable in the script.
Then launch it from a terminal and see if any errors are reported.
Without such there is not much else to do ...

pickarooney

The move command works fine; I've been using it for years. It's just that rather than having the progress bar move it stays at 0 until the files have been transferred and then it jumps to 100% and closes. I guess it's something to do with the move command itself not sending back any info as to how far it has progressed so zenity has nothing to work with. I'll test by replacing mv with rsync.

Johnboy1951

pickarooney wrote: »

The move command works fine; I've been using it for years. It's just that rather than having the progress bar move it stays at 0 until the files have been transferred and then it jumps to 100% and closes. I guess it's something to do with the move command itself not sending back any info as to how far it has progressed so zenity has nothing to work with. I'll test by replacing mv with rsync.

There is no problem with the mv command itself.
I have used it in such situations.

It is probably something to do with the paths used in the command.

Try it moving a file from one fixed partition to another ..... it will work.

As I posted previously .... put that section in a small script and run it from a terminal and see what errors are thrown up.

Everything else is guesswork.