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akallabeth opened this issue Apr 10, 2025 · 2 comments · May be fixed by #13120
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Support for input dialogs #12792

akallabeth opened this issue Apr 10, 2025 · 2 comments · May be fixed by #13120

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@akallabeth
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Hi, hope I did not miss anything, but as far as I can tell this was not discussed yet (in this decade at least):

The library supports file input dialogs (SDL_ShowFileDialogWithProperties) and message boxes (SDL_ShowSimpleMessageBox) but there is no way to ask for input with any kind of dialog.

(most common would likely be some kind of credential dialog or some URL)

Is that something that can/will be implemented in the library or is it one of the out of scope things?
@Semphriss
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Did you have a specific list of input types in mind?

I checked with Zenity, and it offers a plethora of formats, from flat text input/password input to calendar date picking and a progress bar dialog. I can give this a try, if it would be good to have in SDL, but I'd have to check which options are supported cross-platform. (I note for example that Zenity doesn't seem to have a color picker.)

@akallabeth
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@Semphriss for my use case simple credential dialogs would do.
but would like to have something easy to integrate without lots of dependencies, preferably in SDL

@Semphriss Semphriss linked a pull request May 25, 2025 that will close this issue
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Add various input dialogs Semphriss/SDL
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