How to use CreateDialog in .wls file

Question

I have following code, which can run in notebook.

CreateDialog[
 ExpressionCell[
  Plot3D[Sin[x + y^2], {x, -3, 3}, {y, -2, 2}, 
   SphericalRegion -> True], Selectable -> True, Deployed -> False]]

It will pop out a window.

I tried to run it in .wls file, but it said that

FrontEndObject::notavail:
     A front end is not available; certain operations require a front end.

So I add UsingFrontEnd , but still get nothing.

UsingFrontEnd[
CreateDialog[
 ExpressionCell[
  Plot3D[Sin[x + y^2], {x, -3, 3}, {y, -2, 2}, 
   SphericalRegion -> True], Selectable -> True, Deployed -> False]]
]

How to solve this problem?

Rolf Mertig · Accepted Answer

Well, CreateDialog just cannot work. However, e.g. on Linux it is easy to let the image being popped up by the wls script, supposed that ImageMagick is installed and you can use the display function: This is the script test.wls #!/usr/bin/env wolframscript Echo @ ("starting " <> $Version <> " in " <> Directory[]); (* generating the plot *) plot = Plot3D[Sin[x + y^2], {x, -3, 3}, {y, -2, 2}, SphericalRegion -> True]; (* exporting it to, e.g. JPG, just works: *) file = Export["sinPlot.jpg", plot]; (* this displays the file name *) Echo @ file; (* one possibility to open the file from within this script *) Run["/usr/bin/display " <> file]; On Windows, with ImageMagick installed as usual: #!/usr/bin/env wolframscript plot = Plot3D[Sin[x+y^2],{x,-3,3},{y,-2,2},SphericalRegion->True]; file = Export["sinPlot.jpg",plot] fName = FileNameJoin[{Directory[],file}] RunProcess[{"cmd","/c",""C:Program FilesImageMagickimdisplay.exe"",fName}]

How to use CreateDialog in .wls file

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