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- I have uploaded cdialog-0.9a.tar.gz to sunsite. It should be moved
- to pub/Linux/utils/shell, I think.
-
- Starting point for cdialog v.0.9a was dialog-0.6c. Many new features
- like as Resolution-independence, Auto-sizing, Maximizing, more widget
- on the same screen (multi-widget), etc. were added. New widget are
- tailbox and tailbox-in-background. Here are the options:
-
- Usage: dialog <Common options> <Box options>
- { --and-widget <Common options> <Box options> }
-
- Common options: <Global options>
- [--backtitle <backtitle>] [--sleep <secs>] [--beep] [--beep-after]
- [--clear] [--begin <y> <x>] [--aspect <ratio>] [--print-size]
- [--print-maxsize] [--size-err] [--separate-output] [--cr-wrap]
- [--tab-len <n>] [--tab-correct] [--print-version] [--no-kill]
- [--title <title>]
-
- Global options: [--shadow] [--no-shadow] [--separate-widget "<str>"]
-
- At the moment, mouse support with libgpm can't be added because it
- does't implement the wtimeout() function of ncurses. Wtimeout() is
- needed to have more widgets (es.tailbox) cooperating on the same
- screen... I don't know if with newer versions of libgpm it's possible.
-
- I have no more time to write docs for this new version...Is there
- anyone, that looking at the code, can do it??? Ouch! :-)
- Don't flame me!
-
- For the future, if any volunteer want, the way to evolve cdialog is to
- 1) make a daemon for a better support of multi-tasking or implementing
- multithreading.
- 2) add an option that could permit to read commands (--options) from a
- file, like as in a normal programming language, but maintaining
- compatiblity with older version of dialog.
-
- I no longer could maintain cdialog...
- Executable and library name of cdialog are the same of dialog, for
- compatiblity.
-
- I think that only one directive should be follow: don't use a resource
- like stdin, stdout when you'll write new options for cdialog; these
- resources have to be shared from all widgets on the command line.
- Guage uses stdin :-/ so that can't be mixed for example with an inputbox,
- but it was made before of multi-widget. However this is not a big problem!
-
- THERE ARE NO *KNOWN* BUGS. If anyone has much time and can find the way
- to add wtimeout() support to libgpm, also mouse could be supported.
-
- Please use ncurses-1.9.4 or newer.
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