1 -- $Id: CHANGES,v 1.360 2011/07/07 23:35:10 tom Exp $
2 -- Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
4 This version of dialog was originally from a Debian snapshot. I've done this
8 + modify util.c to work better with old versions of ncurses:
9 + suppress use of wchgat() before fix in 20060715 which is needed
10 for simple shadow manipulation used here in 2011/06/30 (report
12 + add a null-pointer check in dlg_print_scrolled()
13 + fix a regression in dlg_getc() introduced by changes to intercept
14 F1 for help-popup (report by xDog Walker).
17 + correct license statement for prgbox.c (Debian #632198).
18 + correct layout when "--colors" is used, by discounting characters in
19 the escape sequences from the column counts (report by xDog Walker).
20 + modify dlg_checklist() so that only one item in the list can
21 initially be selected (report by xDog Walker).
22 + add/use macro dlg_enter_buttoncode() to improve implementation of
23 "--nook" option (report by xDog Walker).
24 + add option "--no-nl-expand" to suppress the conversion of "\n"
25 strings into newlines (request by xDog Walker).
26 + modify LIB_CREATE symbol in makefile.in to include the library
27 dependencies such as ncurses. This is needed when dynamically
28 loading the library (report/analysis by xDog Walker).
29 + modify dlg_exit_label() to suppress the Cancel button, for
31 + modify dlg_exit_label() to honor the --nook option, except when there
32 is no other button, e.g., the help-button.
33 + modify dlg_exit_buttoncode() so that it returns the proper code for
34 help-button (report by xDog Walker).
35 + correct loop limit when processing "--column-separator" (report by
37 + modify handling of "--version" and "--help" to ensure that they are
38 processed, and exit before widgets. Separate "--print-version"
39 from "--version", allowing its output to be interspersed with
40 widget output (report by xDog Walker).
41 + correct a few places where "--version" or "--help" options went
42 always to stdout rather than allowing redirection with the "--stderr"
43 option (report by xDog Walker).
44 + improve repainting after erasing a widget and its shadow.
45 + add "--hline" and "--hfile" options for compatibility with FreeBSD
46 dialog (request by Devin Teske).
47 + add dialog version message when opening a trace file (request by
49 + show filename of rc-file in traces.
50 + add piped-in data for gauge widget to traces.
51 + add entrypoints to gauge widget, for allocating, updating and freeing
52 the widget (adapted from patch by Stephen Hurd).
53 + fix a reference to freed memory in the gauge widget.
54 + fix --no-mouse option by actually closing the mouse (report by
57 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
58 + limit Solaris xpg4 portability fix for redefinition of ERR to cover
59 the specific value found in <sys/regset.h>, in case an application
60 includes dialog.h after curses.h (FreeBSD #156601, report by Jaakko
61 Heinonen, Stephen Hurd).
62 + updated configure macros:
64 + CF_CURSES_LIBS, make checks for special libraries on hpux10 and
66 + CF_CURSES_FUNCS, workaround for bug in gcc 4.2.1 (FreeBSD 8.1)
67 which caused part of test program to be omitted, i.e., when it saw
68 two return-statements in a row it omitted the _first_ one. Also
69 add expression to pointer check to help FreeBSD's linker decide it
70 should be validated. Just an assignment was not enough. Also, add
72 + CF_CURSES_HEADER, change order for curses.h / ncurses.h pairs to
73 put ncurses.h first, which will tend to provide the same #define's
74 as in CF_NCURSES_HEADER (report by Dennis Preiser).
75 + CF_CURSES_TERM_H, modify to avoid spurious check for
76 <curses.hterm.h> if there is no ncurses version. Look for
77 ncurses's term.h anyway, to work around breakage by packagers who
78 separate ncurses' header files.
79 + CF_DISABLE_RPATH_HACK, fix garbled message
80 + CF_LD_RPATH_OPT, add mirbsd
81 + CF_MAKEFLAGS, filter out GNU make's entering/leaving messages.
82 This only appeared when using the macro in a dpkg script, though it
83 should have in other cases.
84 + CF_RPATH_HACK, add a check for libraries not found, e.g., from
85 suppressed functionality of gcc in linking from /usr/local/lib, and
86 add a -L option to help work around this.
87 + CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, workaround for cygwin to get ncurses' configure
88 script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED (cygwin's features.h
89 doesn't do anything, so it needs a crutch).
90 + updated config.guess, config.sub
93 + add --prgbox and --programbox (adapted from patch by David Boyd).
95 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
96 + fix timeouts from 2011/01/18, which were being interpreted as
97 milliseconds rather than seconds (report by Luis Moreira).
100 + fix inconsistency in return-codes for textbox when help-button is
101 used by making dlg_exit_buttoncode() a wrapper for
103 + modify pause widget to use dlg_ok_buttoncode(), so help-button works.
104 + correct two infobox sample scripts, which did not pass extra
105 command-line parameters due to quoting problems.
106 + add a limit-check to the timebox widget (patch by Garrett Cooper).
107 + modify --trace option to also trace the command-line parameters.
108 + account for combining characters when wrapping text (Debian #570634).
109 + correct handling of SIGWINCH in gauge widget (Debian #305705).
110 + add gauge_color, to make guage's progress-bar distinct from
111 title_color (request by Dominic Derdau).
113 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
114 as well as resync line-numbers in the other po-files.
115 + modify configure script and dialog program to build with NetBSD's
116 wide-character curses functions, including workarounds for its
117 incorrect WACS_xxx definitions. Some of the UTF-8 examples work.
118 + add back-tab for traversal of tailboxbg widgets, for symmetry with
120 + reduce flicker in tailboxbg by checking if the input file size has
122 + modify internals of callbacks to avoid blocking reads of their
123 associated files by keyboard input.
124 + add command-line option --no-mouse, to suppress use of mouse.
125 + add configure option --enable-header-subdir to allow the header files
126 to be installed into a subdirectory named for the package.
127 + modify dlg_restore_vars() to retain the updated values of
128 input_result and input_length, eliminating the need for a caller to
129 provide their own user buffer (prompted by report by Thiago Bimbatti
131 + add a null-pointer check in show_result() for
132 dialog_vars.input_result, and ensure it is set to null after freeing
133 (prompted by report by Thiago Bimbatti Felicio).
134 + change order of -I options in CPPFLAGS (report by Michel Feldheim)
135 + modify pause-widget so that it no longer exits when an unrecognized
136 key is pressed (patch by Creidieki M Crouch).
137 + add --with-package option to configure script to allow renaming
138 of the dialog program and library, to support the package scripts.
139 + add Debian and RPM package scripts for test-builds.
140 + several improvements to configure script:
141 + quote params of ifelse()
142 + change obsolete ${name-value} to standard ${name:-value}
143 + use new macros CF_ADD_LIB/CF_ADD_LIBS to enforce consistency.
144 + AM_GNU_GETTEXT, drop $MKINSTALLDIRS, use "mkdir -p" consistently.
145 + CF_ADD_SUBDIR_PATH, workaround - if $prefix was not mkdir'd yet, no
146 directories were added.
147 + CF_BUNDLED_INTL, add --with-textdomain option, to use with lynx-dev
149 + CF_FIND_LINKAGE, simplify save/restore of $LIBS
150 + CF_GCC_WARNINGS, fix for Mac OS X (compiler makes conftest.dSYM
152 + CF_HEADER_PATH, don't search for variations of everything in the
154 + CF_WITH_CURSES_DIR, move the calls to CF_ADD_INCDIR and
155 CF_ADD_LIBDIR for the curses-directory here, from
156 CF_NCURSES_CPPFLAGS and CF_NCURSES_LDFLAGS, so it will work even
157 with the default checking, e.g., no --with-ncurses, etc.
158 + updated config.guess, config.sub
161 + several improvements to configure script:
162 + modify CF_CURSES_TERM_H to handle cases such as cygwin where
163 packager has installed curses.h and term.h in different
164 directories, e.g., to wedge in a termcap library.
165 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, adding special case for OpenSolaris
166 + modify CF_MAKE_TAGS to add check for exctags and exetags, prefer to
167 ctags and etags to work around pkgsrc (NetBSD) renaming.
168 + correct CF_FIND_LINKAGE, setting cache variable for library_file in
169 the special case where no directory search is made.
170 + improve CF_GCC_VERSION, suppress stderr for c89 alias of gcc.
171 + improve CF_GCC_WARNINGS, moving -W and -Wall into the list to
172 check, since c89 alias for gcc complains about these options.
173 + modify CF_HEADER_PATH, to not search for variations of everything
174 in the current include-path
175 + use "mkdir -p", remove mkdirs.sh
176 + use CF_CURSES_HEADER to fill in possible subdirectory used for
177 ncurses header filename.
178 + modify CF_XOPEN_CURSES to work around current ncurse header loss of
179 predefinition of _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
180 + add "--disable-rpath-hack" option, along with scripting to add
181 rpath option to libraries found in unusual places.
182 + modify pause widget to autosize like gauge, and to omit the area for
183 buttons when none are displayed.
184 + fix an infinite loop in dlg_button_layout() if there are no buttons
185 to display (Debian #579390).
186 + add makefile rules for generating html, etc., documentation from
188 > patches by Samuel MartÃn Moro
189 + reset errors in tailbox before reading new character.
190 + modify dlg_draw_scrollbar(), omitting hiding percentages in boxes
191 when no arrows or scrollbar are needed.
192 + correct value of row for scrollbars in formbox.
194 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
197 + split up binding tables in inputbox and similar widgets to avoid
198 conflict between cursor-key use for input-string versus navigation
199 (report by slakmagik).
200 + if strftime() is available, support --time-format option for timebox
202 + if strftime() is available, support --date-format option for calendar
203 widget (request by Walter Harms).
204 + build-fixes for linking to intl library in /usr/local
205 + add --scrollbar option, use in most widgets to show a scrollbar on
206 the right margin of the data. That is cosmetic, does not respond to
208 + reuse functions from msgbox to allow prompt for yesno box to be
209 scrolled in a too-small window.
210 + correct mapping of button-codes with --nook option (report by Lebedev
212 + cleanup sample scripts using new utility scripts setup-* and report-*,
213 and allow command-line parameters to be added, for ad hoc testing.
214 + correct change to tailbox widget from 2009/02/22 using
215 dlg_button_layout(), which broke that widget.
216 + document some of the portability caveats.
217 + modify gauge widget to service callbacks (prompted by patch and
218 comments by Frank Sorenson).
219 + modify editbox to allow its input buffer to be larger than MAX_LEN
220 unless bounded by the --max-input option, and add limit-checks for
221 the buffer (report by slakmagik).
222 + improve manpage description of --checklist (report by Isaac Good).
223 + several improvements to configure script macros: CF_ADD_CFLAGS
224 CF_CURSES_FUNCS CF_DISABLE_ECHO CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES CF_MATH_LIB
225 CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE CF_REMOVE_DEFINE CF_WITH_LIBTOOL CF_XOPEN_SOURCE
226 + add is.po, lv.po, sw.po from
227 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
228 + update de.po, id.po, pl.po, pt_BR.po, vi.po from
229 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
232 + do not display top-arrows for scrolling if they would overwrite the
233 title (report by slakmagik)
234 + consistently use dlg_button_layout() when autosizing widgets (report
236 + add "-" and "+" bindings to timebox widget.
237 + add "-" and "+" bindings to calendar widget (OpenSolaris #6739031).
238 + review/fix other widgets to ensure that they exit on error, e.g.,
240 + modify check in dlg_getc() to treat closure of either stdin or stdout
241 as an error, rather than both. This is more stringent than the check
243 + modify dlg_result_key() to map curses ERR to dialog's error exit
244 (adapted from patch by Domagoj Pensa).
245 + updated several configure script macros:
246 + consistently append, rather then prepend, to $CFLAGS
247 + add cases for AIX 6, mint, and dragonfly to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE
248 + use $PATH_SEPARATOR rather than $PATHSEP
249 + improve CF_FIND_LINKAGE, use in checks for more libraries, e.g.,
250 libutf8 and libiconv.
251 + update da.po, ru.po from
252 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
253 + updated config.guess, config.sub
256 + amend changes to quoting; by default, the checklist widget quotes its
257 output except when --separate-output is used (Debian #495600).
259 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
262 + add pointer-check when closing piped input (cf: 2007/03/25)
263 + use here-documents rather than echo, when passing backslashes in
264 strings, to accommodate the Debian shell "dash" (Debian #489563).
265 + recode several ".po" files to UTF-8 for consistency.
266 + change --separator to be an alias for --output-separator, for
267 compatibility with Xdialog.
268 + add --output-separator option to allow scripts to change the output
269 separator from a newline (for --separate-output) or a space. This
270 applies to other widgets such as forms and editboxes which normally
272 + add --column-separator option, to tell where column-aligned data for
273 radio/checkboxes or menus should be split into columns (request by
275 + add id.po, ku.po, lt.po, nb.po and update ca.po, fr.po, gl.po, ja.po,
277 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
278 + add "--quoted" option, to quote values returned by formbox, etc.
279 + change names of EX/ES macros in dialog.1 to work around name-
280 pollution caused by changes in Debian #470729.
283 + modify dlg_mouse_wgetch() to loop only on errors that it detects,
284 rather than on errors forwarded from dlg_getc(), in case those are
285 due to a disconnected terminal (report by Anatoli Sakhnik).
286 + allow "default" color in dialogrc file (request by Dashing).
287 + fix an indexing error in formbox (Debian #469190, report by Dmitry
288 Gomerman, patch by Vladimir Mezentsev).
289 + add bindings for CTL/N, CTL/P to checklist, fselect and menubox
290 widgets (prompted by discussion with John Gatewood Ham).
291 + add be@latin.po, th.po and update zh_TW.po from
292 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
293 > patches by Peter Astrand:
294 + modify dlg_auto_sizefile() to ensure the computed height and width
295 do not extend beyond the screen size.
296 + use unctrl() to make inputstr.c work with Solaris curses.
297 > patches by Yura Kalinichenko:
298 + extend pause widget to use ok/cancel buttons (the former giving the
299 same result as a timeout), rather than an exit-button.
300 + fix initialization parameter of inputbox for multibyte characters.
303 + improve layout of checklist.c, menubox.c, ensuring that the list fits
304 within the available space (report by Gordon Schumacher).
305 + undo removal of redundant chunk from checklist.c in 2007/02/27,
306 since some scripts depend on this (Debian #443077).
308 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
311 + correct cursor position in editbox after deleting past left margin
312 (report by Joe McDonagh).
313 + add "--no-ok" option (patch by Klaus Knopper).
314 + modify "--file" option to allow it to read from sources other than
315 a regular file (patch by Pieter van Beek).
316 + improved hi.po (Hindi) (from Klaus Knopper).
317 + fix masking of attributes in dlg_draw_shadow() which lost
318 line-drawing bit (report by David Everly).
319 + fix editbox widget to handle zero-length files (report by Joe
321 + update "po" files eu.po ga.po it.po ms.po sv.po vi.po wa.po zh_CN.po
323 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
326 + revise the resizable shadows so textbox's search dialog has text
327 visible in the shadow again.
328 + improve the prefixing of autoconf-related symbols in the installed
329 header files, taking into account symbols which are not mentioned in
331 + add a check when ERR returned from wgetch() to ensure that the
332 input/output streams are still valid. If that happens, force
333 ESC to be returned, quitting dialog (report by Reiner Huober).
334 + add extern "C" declarations to dlg_keys.h so the corresponding
335 function declarations are exported to C++ as C symbols.
336 + updated config.guess, config.sub
339 + fix a memory leak in editbox.c
340 + revise change from 2007/02/27 which moved the logic for trimming
341 option text out of the loop because that moved it before
342 initialization of the "--trim" option. Put it back in the loop, but
343 limit the tokens which are trimmed to cover only those for the
344 current widget. Also ensure that all tokens for a widget are
345 trimmed, rather than only the first, which is usually text (report by
347 + add _FILE_OFFSET_BITS definition in CF_LARGEFILE configure macro.
350 + revise changes needed to make textbox's searchbox handle ncurses
351 resizing events, e.g., by handling the ERR in that code rather than
352 in dlg_getc() (Debian #423732).
355 + supply a repaint_text() call in tailbox.c which was bypassed because
356 dlg_getc() now retries on ERR (Debian #423732, cf: 2007/02/27).
357 + modify dlg_getc() to fix regression in 2007/02/27 for use of
358 timeouts, broken by fixes to allow resizing of textbox (patch by
359 Arnaud Fontaine, Debian #418905).
360 + modify dlg_getc() to fix regression in use of TAB for traversal of
361 tailboxbg widgets due to changes for user-definable key bindings
362 (Debian #418917, cf: 2005/12/07).
365 + add case in dlg_getc() to handle tab for traversing between widgets
366 as in the samples/tailboxbg1 script. Normally the key binding
367 overrides, except for the special case where multiple widgets are
369 + add configure --with-libtool-opts, which passes its value to the
370 library creation and linkage passes, e.g.,
371 --with-libtool-opts=-static
372 to force the result to be static libraries (prompted by a related
373 request by Santiago Vila).
374 > several fixes based on Coverity scan:
375 + fix memory leak in timebox, calendar widgets if the widget cannot
377 + fix memory leak in dlg_key.c if a user binding's storage cannot
379 + fix improperly delinked entry in dlg_del_window().
382 + improve mkdirs.sh to ignore error from mkdir if the target directory
383 happens to already exist (suggested by Harald van Dijk).
384 + amend documentation for --gauge to reflect longstanding quirk which
385 allows it to read percentage from the first line after an "XXX"
387 + fix makefile dependency so "configure && make install-lib" works.
388 + fix resizing of msgbox; the message was not repainted (Debian
389 #415022, patch by Brian Rolfe).
390 + fix typo in makefile LIB_OBJECT symbol from 2007/02/27 changes.
391 + improve CF_MBSTATE_T by including stdio.h, needed on Tru64 to make
392 the test-compile work.
393 + change makefile to install dialog.3 as part of install-lib rather
394 than install-man (report by Thomas Klausner).
395 + use $(INSTALL_SCRIPT) for installing dialog-config (report by
399 + add dialog-config script, which provides applications with compile-
400 and link-information for using the dialog library.
401 + move calls to dlg_trim_string() out of loop in dialog.c, so each
402 string is trimmed once (report by Ivanov Makcim).
403 + modify textbox.c to allow resizing while the search box is presented.
404 This relies on bug-fix in ncurses 5.6 20070224.
405 + use dgettext() rather than gettext() to allow libdialog to use the
406 messages installed for dialog (patch by Vajna Miklos).
407 + modify inputbox to position the cursor initially at the end of any
408 initial-text (request by Klaus Knopper).
409 + add configure --with-valgrind for testing.
410 + add --trace option, for debugging.
411 + add --ascii-lines and --no-lines options to control the way the
412 line-drawing characters are rendered (request by Klaus Knopper).
413 + add --keep-tite option, to override suppression of smcup/rmcup
414 (termcap ti/te) strings which would switch to xterm's alternate
415 screen (Debian #380665).
416 + modify fselect/dselect to use space-character as a completion
417 operator like tab in shells (patch by Yoram Bar Haim).
418 + remove a redundant chunk from checklist.c which reported status a
419 second time if the help-button was pressed but no item-help option
420 was in effect (Andre C Barros).
421 + fix return-status from "dialog --pause" (Debian #409254).
422 + add --mixedform and --mixedgauge dialogs based on patch from
424 + add some notes on compatibility to the manpage.
425 + add editbox dialog (compatible with Xdialog, Debian #368478).
426 + add dselect dialog (compatible with Xdialog).
427 + remove an incorrect initialization of .text_flen from 2005/12/07
428 changes, which made all fields in a form editable (Debian #404045).
429 + report error and exit if a filename given for the --file option
430 cannot be opened (report by "Dog Walker").
431 + make --program-prefix, etc., work in configure script, e.g., to make
432 program install as "cdialog". This does not alter the library name.
433 + add install-bin, install-man (and uninstall) rules to makefile.
434 + updates for configure script macros (originally vile, lynx, xterm):
435 AM_PATH_PROG_WITH_TEST, AM_WITH_NLS, CF_CURSES_CPPFLAGS,
436 CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_INCLUDE_DIRS, CF_LARGEFILE, CF_MAKEFLAGS,
437 CF_PATH_SYNTAX, CF_SUBDIR_PATH, CF_SUBST, CF_WITH_DBMALLOC,
438 CF_WITH_DMALLOC, CF_WITH_LIBTOOL and CF_XOPEN_SOURCE.
439 + updated config.guess, config.sub
440 > adapted fixes from SuSE package (Werner Fink):
441 + add some limit-checks in dlg_draw_shadow().
442 + make shadows resizable, using new dlg_move_window() in msgbox.c
444 + add dialog_state.input, use this in end_dialog() to decide whether
445 to close pipe inputs and call _exit(), or simply call exit().
446 + modify dlg_ctl_size() to check if the reason for failure is because
447 shadows were used; retry in that case without shadows.
448 + add signal catcher for SIGSEGV.
451 + fix logic in split-out dlg_menu() to separate inputmenu and menu
452 handling (report by Auke Kok).
455 + fix fselect.c to compile properly with Intel compiler and largefile
457 + improve configure script checks for curses headers to work around
458 breakage in some packages, e.g., cygwin.
459 + amend correction to menubox, fixes normal menus (Debian #349969).
462 + completed dialog.3 manpage
463 + modify configure script option --with-gauge to cover all flavors of
464 the gauge (gauge, pause, progressbox).
465 + add progressbox widget, a hybrid of gauge and tailbox (Reznic Valery).
466 + fix a comparison in checklist.c to avoid unneeded arrows when the
467 list happens to fit in the window (patch by Peter Postma).
468 + correct wrapping computation in print_line() from 2005/11/07 changes
469 (report by Barry Kauler).
470 + update sv.po (comments only).
471 http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/maint/dialog/
472 + correct logic that passes the callback for menubox to do inputmenu
473 operations from 2005/12/7 changes (report by Reznic Valery).
476 + add a null-pointer check in dlg_register_buttons(), needed for the
477 tailboxbg (Debian #345524).
478 + fix a few memory leaks reported by valgrind.
481 + correct return-values of new functions dlg_default_listitem() and
482 dlg_default_formitem() (Debian #344002).
483 + add Swedish translation (Debian #343303, by Daniel Nylander)
484 + begin function-summaries in dialog.3
485 + update config.guess, config.sub
488 + change license to LGPL.
489 + change naming convention in dlg_colors.h to make it easier to read,
490 and incidentally remove the last chunk of code preventing relicense.
491 + add --passwordform (request by Reznic Valery).
492 + modify pause.c, msgbox.c to work with --help-button.
493 + modify formbox.c, inputbox.c, textbox.c, yesno.c to work with extra
494 button (adapted from Reznic Valery patch).
495 + modify dlg_exit_label(), dlg_yes_labels() and dlg_ok_label() to allow
496 help-button (prompted by Reznic Valery patch).
497 + add zh_CN.po file from
498 http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/maint/dialog/
499 + provide alternate interfaces for dialog_checklist(), dialog_menu()
500 and dialog_form(): dlg_checklist(), dlg_menu() and dlg_form()
501 (discussion with Michael Gebetsroither).
502 + add/use dlg_result_key() to allow binding function keys to the
504 + implement user-definable key bindings in the rc-file.
505 + modify inline cases for KEY_xxx values to use binding tables in new
507 + add several DIALOG_STATE items to the rc file: aspect,
508 separate_widget, tab_len and visit_links
509 + add a tab-adjustment to dlg_print_text() to improve solution from
510 2005/10/30, e.g., in the samples/form* scripts.
511 + fix an off-by-one which made mouse-selection not work for menu items
512 past the first page (GenToo #112024, patch by Harald van Dijk).
515 + extend dlg_add_result() to allow caller to pass a null pointer
516 for dialog_vars.input_result (Debian #336986).
517 + correct length used for text portion of radio/checkboxes (report by
519 + modify msgbox, textbox and center_label() to work properly for
520 LANG=bg_BG.utf8 examples by Valentin Stoykov.
521 + modify use of freopen() to work with opaque FILE type on DragonFly
522 (report by Jeremy C Reed).
523 + modify print_line() to compute columns, use that for the call to
524 dlg_print_line(). Fix a few places where strlen() was used instead
525 of dlg_count_columns() (reports by Valentin Stoykov).
528 + reviewed changes since beginning development in 1999, decided that
529 there are no appreciable portions of original code remaining.
530 Marked sources to correspond.
531 + improve cache performance for inputstr.c using tsearch() rather than
532 a linked-list search (Debian #294853).
533 + remove a special case for darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
534 + add ms.po file from
535 http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/maint/dialog/
536 + remove an assignment that caused the cursor to appear initially on a
537 form field rather than button (Debian #333506).
538 + modify buttons.c to count columns rather than bytes, fixing case
539 where buttons were laid out incorrectly (report by Valentin Stoykov).
540 + change dlg_print_text() to count columns rather than bytes, fixing
541 case where fewer columns were displayed in menu than expected
542 (report by Valentin Stoykov).
545 + improve fix for dlg_does_output(), eliminating redundant leading
547 + fill background color for item-help text (report by Peter Postma).
548 + correct interaction between --separate-output and --output-separator
549 broken in 2005/09/11 fix for Debian #326918 (Debian #331440).
550 + update config.guess, config.sub
553 + undo doubled adjustment for left/right margins when wrapping text
554 for msgbox, gauge and pause (report by Xyba).
555 + correct position of scrolled text in formbox broken by 2004/12/19
556 changes (report by Konrad Jelen).
557 + call dlg_does_output() from dlg_add_result(), ensuring that
558 separators are used when combining widgets such as formbox (report by
560 + fix marker in textbox.c to make it disappear at the top of the file
561 (report by Patrick J. Volkerding).
562 + fix marker shown in arrows.c for checklists, etc., which was "(+)"
563 where it should have been "(-)" (report/patch by Patrick J.
565 + fix --input-fd (changes in glibc since 2003 made dialog hang on exit
566 due to the way dialog updated stdin).
567 + restore default value (a tab) for --separator or --separate-widget
568 lost in 2003/11/26 changes (Debian #326918).
569 + make several widgets handle SIGWINCH (calendar, checklist, formbox,
570 fselect, inputbox, menubox, pause, tailbox, textbox, timebox). Only
571 msgbox and yesno had been done before. Note that some still have
572 fixed geometry requirements, so they cannot be shrunk below a given
573 threshold. Also, these changes do not address traversal, e.g., for
575 + make gauge widget handle SIGWINCH with ncurses (Debian #305705).
576 + add configure option to control whether largefile support is
577 compiled-in (Debian #298882).
578 + update eu.po (Debian #312622, patch by Piarres Egana).
579 + add/update po files from
580 http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/maint/dialog/
581 fi.po, rw.po, sr.po, tr.po, zh_TW.po
582 + fixes for configure script:
583 + improve script for determining gcc version
584 + improve checks for Intel compiler and related warning options
585 + improve checks for defining _XOPEN_SOURCE (or alternatives) and
587 + update config.guess, config.sub
590 + add/update po files from
591 http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/maint/dialog/
593 + revert last change for da.po; it was from an older version (report by
594 Morten Brix Pedersen).
597 + modify makefile.in so --disable-echo applies to libtool builds.
598 + corrected malloc size used for editable fields in formbox widget to
599 match the function which updates the corresponding buffer.
600 + modify formbox widget's use of flen to allow negative values to be
601 used to limit the length of the displayed field.
602 + improve description in manpage of output from formbox widget
604 + modify formbox widget to allow fields with flen==0 to display
606 + improved configure macros CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE and CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, to
607 avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
608 + fix a typo in inputmenu-stdout found via "sh -n" (report by Steve
610 + add/update po files from
611 http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/maint/dialog/
612 ca.po, da.po, hu.po, nl.po, rm.po, ro.po, vi.po
615 + add --args option to help with debugging scripts.
616 + adapted some new po files from Debian package for whiptail: ar.po,
617 bg.po, gl.po, hi.po, hr.po, mg.po, mk.po, ro.po, sq.po and zh_TW.po
618 + update da.po (Morten Brix Pedersen).
619 + add configure check for Intel 8.0 compiler, to set appropriate
621 + update config.guess, config.sub
624 + correct a typo in 2004/12/19 changes which caused width of multibyte
625 characters to be incorrectly computed in some locales.
626 + modify --version and --help options to write consistently to the
627 standard output (report by Santiago Vila).
628 + modify tailboxbg by resetting tty modes at the point where it forks a
629 process to update the screen, rather than waiting until that process
630 exits. This improves user feedback by making it apparent that dialog
631 is no longer processing input after that point (Redhat Bugzilla
633 + minor updates to some .po files using Babel Fish, comparing with lynx.
634 + update es.po (Santiago Vila).
635 + work around bug in NetBSD 1.6 curses which seems to be confused by
636 reusing color pairs with different video attributes. The problem
637 does not appear in NetBSD 2.0 curses (but its headers do not provide
638 version info, so color-caching is not available for that
640 + modify pause and gauge widgets to ensure that reverse-video progress
641 bar is visible when the background is reversed, e.g., using the
642 default non-color attributes.
643 + use chtype rather than attr_t, to build with old Solaris curses,
644 used in save/restore operation from 2004/09/20.
647 + add pause-widget (patch by Yura Kalinichenko).
648 + modify exit-code returned on selecting the "Help"-button when the
649 --item-help option is given. Previously this returned the same code
650 as "OK", since it combines output for "OK" with the help status. It
651 now returns the help-code, but this can be overridden by setting the
652 environment variable $DIALOG_ITEM_HELP (reports by Erika Pacholleck
653 and Sebastian Muesch).
654 + modify formbox widget so input-length is not limited to field-length
655 (report by David Liebermann).
656 + localize the label on the search box for textbox widget (report by
658 + correct usage message detail for fselect, which listed an extra
659 parameter (Debian #284008).
660 + add include for <sys/select.h> in ui_getc.c to build with QNX 4.25
661 using Watcom 10.6 (patch by Len Meakin).
662 + modify behavior when no locale (or POSIX locale) is set to allow
663 legacy interpretation of Latin-1 character set (Debian #284795).
666 + correct computation of column width for menubox/checkbox tags, for
667 multicolumn characters, e.g., the menubox-utf8 example.
668 + correct calls to wbkgdset(), which set the background attribute but
669 not the corresponding character (ncurses uses blank if none is given).
670 + improve configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE and _POSIX_C_SOURCE.
671 + improved limit-computation in show_message() to allow for scrolling
673 + adjust scrolling logic in msgbox to account for the one-line offset
674 used by the logic which wraps text in a box, thus avoiding leaving
675 an extra blank line (report by Maxim Sobolev).
678 + add samples/whiptail.rc
679 + add samples/dialog.py (noting that a later version of this exists
680 as pythondialog, but this is relatively self-contained). Modified
681 the script to accept the $DIALOG environment variable like the other
682 sample scripts, to specify the path of the program to use.
683 + modify the install rule for header-files so the autoconf names in
684 dlg_config.h (and corresponding usage in dialog.h, etc), are altered
685 from "HAVE_xxx" to "DLG_HAVE_xxx", etc.
686 + add a check for getenv("HOME") in rc.c
687 + add a call to end_dialog() in signal_handler for tailboxbg (from
688 patch by Werner Fink).
689 + correct initialization in checklist and radiobox for --default-item,
691 + modify --visit-items option so that it puts the cursor initially on
692 the list (in menubox, checklist and radiobox), accepts abbreviations
693 for the buttons when the cursor is on the button-row, and otherwise
694 (when --visit-items is given) abbreviations apply only to the list
695 (report by Erika Pacholleck).
696 + modify a few widgets (inputbox, textbox, yesno) to beep on unexpected
698 + modify some msgbox widget to accept abbreviations of its button
699 label, for consistency with other widgets (request by Erika
701 + corrected logic of dlg_char_to_button(), making it check only the
702 first uppercase letter in each button label rather than all uppercase
703 letters (report by Erika Pacholleck, cf: 2003/09/10).
704 + improved description of --clear and --keep-window options (adapted
705 from Erika Pacholleck).
706 + move discussion of --beep and --beep-signal options to Obsolete
707 Options section of manpage, remove these from the help-message
708 (report by Erika Pacholleck).
709 + bracket extern's in dialog.h with C++ extern "C" declaration, in case
710 the library is used from a C++ application.
711 + modify inputmenu examples to allow ESC to cancel the script.
712 + modify inputmenu widget to cancel edit on a TAB or ESC.
713 + modify inputmenu widget to use the same color scheme for the editable
714 text as the inputbox widget.
715 + modify samples/killall to work around differences in "cut" versions.
716 + use the color-caching from the \Z logic when loading the ".rc" file,
717 thereby reducing the number of color pairs required, and making it
718 less likely that deriving color pairs for drawing arrows on a given
719 background will run out of colors.
720 + save/restore window attributes in dlg_draw_arrows() and similar
721 functions, to allow widgets to draw arrows using the widget's
722 background rather than a common/fixed value (request by Erika
724 + modify textbox widget so the down-arrow will be hidden when at the
725 end of the file. (Modifying the up-arrow to be hidden is harder -
726 will do this when implementing scrollbars).
727 + correct off-by-one in fselect.c which left down-arrows showing at
728 the bottom of directory- and file-lists (report by Erika Pacholleck).
729 + improve display of percentages by omitting blanks where lines should
731 + modify logic for \Z escapes to make those that set video attributes
732 not clear the colors (report by Erika Pacholleck).
733 + modify logic for \Z escapes to allow foreground and background
734 colors to be the same, provided that bold attribute is set.
735 Also improved the logic for choosing a background color when the
736 foreground and background are the same (report by Erika Pacholleck).
737 + updated configure script macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, ensuring that the
738 _POSIX_C_SOURCE value is defined with a specific value (bug report
739 originally for lynx).
740 + fix configure script so that po/makefile is generated properly when
741 the configure --srcdir --enable-nls options are used.
742 + modify makefile.in to allow build/install from another directory,
743 i.e., using configure --srcdir (patch by Mike Castle).
744 + updated da.po (Debian #262587, Morten Brix Pedersen).
745 + modify some sample scripts to avoid using grave quotes nested within
746 double quotes with multiple file redirection, which does not work
747 with Solaris /bin/sh (report/analysis by Eric Haller).
748 + check for end of string immediately after a \Z escape to avoid
749 displaying the null terminator as a ^@ (report by Erika Pacholleck).
750 > patches by Erika Pacholleck:
751 + modify calendar.c, fselect.c and timebox.c to use color scheme like
752 other lists, using menubox colors rather than dialog colors.
753 + correct charset for po/de.po, translate messages for "Help" and
755 + omit parentheses around percentage in textbox.c
756 + correct a few mismatched attributes, e.g., searchbox_attr in textbox.c,
757 percentage in msgbox.c,
761 + add test scripts to cover zero-width column case.
762 + remove limit checks from checklist.c and menubox.c (cf: 2004/07/28),
763 since some scripts use zero-width columns (Debian #262411 and report
767 + modify msgbox.c to only reserve space for percentage shown as part
768 of scrollable text for the msgbox widget. This makes infobox look
769 as it did before 2004/06/06 changes (report by Vinesh Christopher)
772 + remove redundant calls to wtimeout() from widgets since wtimeout()
773 is properly called from ui_getc() where it is controlled by the
774 --timeout option (bug report by juanjo).
775 + add limit checks in checklist.c and menubox.c for very narrow screens
776 (prompted by Steve Grubb patch).
777 + initialize step in dlg_draw_buttons() in case it is used to draw
778 a vertical list of buttons (prompted by Steve Grubb patch).
779 > fixes by Steve Grubb:
780 + correct logic in checklist.c (cf: 2003/11/26 changes) which turned
781 quoting on unnecessarily for radiobox, breaking some old scripts.
782 + increase size of array in dlg_ok_labels() to avoid overrun if extra
783 and help buttons are used (cf: 2002/06/12 changes).
784 + initialize fkey variable in menubox.c and textbox.c (cf: 2003/07/12).
786 2004/07/21 - release 1.0
787 + minor updates for configure script, i.e., CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
788 CF_NCURSES_LIBS macros.
789 + update config.guess, config.sub
790 + add nl.po (Jacques Weewer).
793 + add --visit-items option, which allows the user to tab to the item
794 list in the checklist/radiobox and menubox widgets (request by
796 + use wide-character line-drawing for up/down arrows when configured
797 for wide-characters, gives better results with uxterm.
798 + limit the number of times a --file option can be used, to prevent
799 runaway recursion if a --file option is embedded within a file which
801 + improve discussion of wrapping in the manpage (Debian #251937).
802 + modify msgbox to allow it to scroll vertically like textbox (Debian
803 #233276). This only works with ncurses.
804 + implement $DIALOGVARS environment variable to apply common options to
805 dialog_vars when it is reset before processing other common options.
806 + add --single-quoted option to control whether output is double-quoted
807 with '"' or single-quoted with single-quotes.
808 + revert the default quoting behavior of checklists to use
809 double-quotes (report by Mark K Post regarding Slackware scripts).
810 + add eu.po (Basque) (Piarres Beobide Egaa).
811 + add ca.po (Catalan) (Jordi Mallach).
814 + add a call to flushinp() to init_dialog(), to discard any typeahead
815 before dialog is invoked (Debian #244746).
816 + correct dlg_match_char() function, which was broken during rewrite
817 to support wide-characters (Debian #244777).
818 + improved ru.po, uses UTF-8 charset (Leonid Kanter, Redhat Bugzilla
820 + correct position of shadow drawn for dialogs, which appeared to work
821 for most versions of curses (other than NetBSD) but would have been
822 visible for certain color schemes (discussion with Julian Coleman).
823 + correct loop-exit in longest_word() (Tomas Heredia, forwarded by
825 + add cy.po (Welsh) (Dafydd Harries).
828 + modify quoting of results to use single-quote rather than double
829 quote, and ensure that results containing a quote or backslash
830 character are escaped (report by Florent Rougon)
831 + remove an incorrect comparison from checklist which made cursor
832 stick on the last line, from 2004/03/01 changes.
835 + add a dependency to install library if "--with-libtool" is used.
836 + add manpage for the library.
838 + modify formbox.c to support "--help-status" like menubox.
839 + modify checklist.c to add item name to the "HELP" string when
840 "--help-button" is used and no --item-help option is given (Debian
841 #236841, report/patch by Jorg Sommer).
842 + rename colors.h to dlg_colors.h, install that when the library is
844 + add copyright notice to usage ("--help") message.
845 + correct a missing bounds check for mouse-clicks in menubox (prompted
847 + updated several configure-script macros: AM_GNU_GETTEXT,
848 AM_WITH_NLS, CF_OUR_MESSAGES, CF_PROG_EXT, CF_WITH_DBMALLOC,
849 CF_WITH_DMALLOC, CF_WITH_LIBTOOL, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE.
852 + improve layout of calendar widget to allow for very long button
853 labels (report by Santiago Vila).
854 + correct logic for $DIALOG_TTY, broken in 2003/11/30. The environment
855 variable must evaluate to a nonzero integer (report by Florent
857 + document interaction between "--default-no" and "--no-cancel" options
858 in manpage (Debian #223488).
859 + change configure script to use autoconf 2.52+patch, to work around
860 issues with Estonian locale (report by Seemant Kulleen).
861 + add uk.po (Ukrainian) (Debian #232441).
862 + make --default-item apply to checklist widget (Debian #225255).
863 + correct a missing check for --item-help when --help-status was given
864 for checklist (Debian #232921).
865 + correct a missing bounds check for mouse-clicks in checklist (Debian
867 + update config.guess, config.sub
870 + correct infinite loop in yesno widget when "--defaultno" option is
871 combined with "--no-cancel" (Debian #223077).
874 + suppress double-quotes added for "--help-status" option if the
875 string does not contain any special characters.
878 + add samples/sourcemage.rc, for comparison with slackware.rc
879 + add "--insecure" option (request by Sean Mathews (DrWho@f34r.com)).
880 + make "--defaultno" option apply to widgets which use OK/Cancel
881 buttons as well (Debian #209030).
882 + improve documentation of exit-codes for each widget in the manpage
884 + add option "--keep-window" to suppress repainting after completing
885 each widget (request by Ingo van Lil).
886 + add options "--yes-label" and "--no-label" to allow override of the
887 "Yes" and "No" strings (request by Christoph Zwerschke).
888 + add option "--help-status" to allow script to restore a checklist
889 or radiolist after processing an item-help string (Debian #209031).
890 + modify width-calculation for non-formatted text to ensure it is
891 wide enough for the longest word in the text (patch by Andrew Gaul).
892 + modify dlg_index_columns() to count a newline as a single cell rather
893 than 2 for the normal curses case. This fixes an off-by-one for
894 the text-justification, shown in screen 2 of msgbox1 sample script.
895 + fix dlg_char_to_button(); 2003/09/10 changes made it incorrectly
896 ignore case of the labels.
897 + change calendar's use of arrow keys so they are (as before 2002/06/22)
898 interpreted within the day-grid as movement within that grid (request
900 + correct missing initialization of last_getc variable in dlg_getc()
901 (report/analysis by Victor Wodecki).
902 + modify main program to make
903 dialog --no-shadow --print-maxsize
904 work. Normally dialog prints the screen size after subtracting the
905 area reserved for shadows, but some applications may need the actual
906 screen size (Debian #213424).
907 + several related changes (Debian #213425):
908 + separate the examples using "--stdout" and "--output-fd" from the
909 normal usage examples.
910 + add "--input-fd" option, provide a sample of its use.
911 + modify init_dialog() to use initscr() unless a "--stdout" option
912 was used. Some scripts relied on the coincidence that redirecting
913 standard output from dialog would "work". Before this change
914 init_dialog() assumed that redirected standard output was
915 synonymous with "--stdout" option (not the intended behavior).
916 + modify command-line parsing to look for "--stdout" and "--stderr"
917 options first, allowing only one.
918 + add a check for an environment variable $DIALOG_TTY which provides
919 the older behavior, i.e., try to open the terminal directly if
920 stdout is redirected.
921 + interface changes, to make libdialog simpler to use:
922 + rename all of the internal functions to begin with "dlg_", but
923 provide compatibility with older names if the application defines
924 __DIALOG_OLD_NAMES__.
925 + add dialog_version() function, and corresponding DIALOG_VERSION and
926 DIALOG_PATCHDATE definitions to dlg_config.h
927 + eliminate remaining global variables such as screen_initialized in
928 favor of dialog_state and dialog_vars.
929 + move some data such as dialog_vars.output to dialog_state, since
930 they are normally not reset between widgets.
931 + change interfaces of dialog_yesno() and dialog_checklist() to use
932 dialog_state.defaultno and dialog_vars.separate_output, making it
933 simpler and more consistent.
934 + improve configure script and related definitions:
935 + add "--with-libtool" option to provide shared library support by
937 + rename generated "config.h" to "dlg_config.h", so it can be
938 installed without naming conflict. Added "dlg_config.h" to
940 + modify configure script and makefile to use EXEEXT and OBJEXT.
941 + add "--enable-widec" option to control whether wide-curses features
942 are compiled-in, rather than check for the existence of those in
943 the curses library. This allows building with HPUX curses, which
944 has abandoned legacy features while not quite supporting X/Open
946 + add configure check for getbegx(), etc., which are not provided on
948 + update config.guess, config.sub
951 + update hu.po (Arpad Biro).
952 + revert part of the 2003/08/18 change to "--stdout" option. Using
953 stderr for screen output does not work well on several platforms
954 since stdout's settings are affected (report by Kent Robotti).
957 + modify tailbox to allow it to display files with arbitrarily long
959 + fix an infinite loop in tailbox, broken when making interface changes
960 to dlg_getc() (report by Ingo van Lil).
961 + amend fix for "--and-widget" to not treat "---" as an option (report
963 + updated es.po (Santiago Vila).
966 + correct "RENAMED" result from inputmenu widget, which did not reset
967 the result buffer, and did not account for scroll-offset (Debian
969 + modify button, menu and checklist logic that matches a character to
970 the beginning of a text field to support wide-characters (completes
972 + modify configure script to not use "head -1".
975 + modify searchbox popup in textbox widget so one can simply press
976 return on an empty input to cancel the popup.
977 + modify error reporting to avoid clearing screen if a problem is
978 found in the ".rc" file.
979 + add color/attribute combinations for form widget (based on patch by
981 + combine rc-file colors, attribute- and color-tables to obtain a
982 single table for color values, which requires less work to add new
984 + modify fselect widget to make back-tab work again, since it was
985 broken by the rewrite of dlg_edit_string().
986 + modify howmany_tags() so it will quit searching when it finds any
987 option, not only "--and-widget" (Debian #206636).
988 + correct call to dlg_print_text() in print_line(), which did not
989 account for hidden characters (report/patch by David Poole).
990 + modify print_button() to display properly if locale defines ok/cancel
991 or yes/no buttons that contain multibyte characters.
994 + correct an indexing error when deleting from the end of a line using
995 KEY_DC; it happened to work on Linux because malloc() clears memory
997 + add '\r' to case statement where '\n' is translated to KEY_ENTER to
998 work around defect in NetBSD curses.
999 + modify configure check for getparyx(), etc., which are implemented
1000 by NetBSD curses as functions rather than macros.
1001 + correct configure check for term.h, which may be <ncursesw/term.h>
1002 if ncursesw development headers are installed, but not ncurses
1003 development headers. Or they may not coincide (Debian #206287).
1006 + modify checklist.c and menubox.c to display tags properly if they
1007 contain wide-characters.
1008 + better solution for initializing curses when "--stdout" option is
1009 used, e.g., use stderr for the output if it is a tty. Also correct
1010 the error handling, so dialog exits with an error if it cannot
1011 find a way to do output (Debian #205509).
1012 + modify sample scripts to use consistent definition of $DIALOG
1014 + add UTF-8 examples inputbox6-utf8, inputbox6-utf8 (from Tomohiro
1015 Kubota, Debian #195674).
1016 + modify print_line() to work with wide-characters, e.g., so it handles
1017 wrapping for double-width characters.
1018 + cache results from multibyte character indices, speeds up cursor
1020 + modify form widget to support scrolling and mouse-selection.
1021 + add form widget (based on patch by Reznic Valery).
1022 + correct mouse-handling for inputmenu widget.
1023 + corrections to menu.c: location of clearing operation, and height of
1024 rows in code for older ncurses versions (patch by Reznic Valery).
1025 + improve logic that compensates for xterm's alternate-screen by
1026 cancelling the rmcup/smcup strings after the rmcup has been issued.
1027 That ensures that dialog will not clear the screen on exit (report
1029 + modify initialization between widgets to retain the values for the
1030 --aspect, --separate-widget and --tab-len options.
1031 + add --separator as an alias for --separate-widget (compatible with
1033 + correct handling of Xdialog's --icon and --wmclass options, whose
1034 parameter was not ignored.
1035 + correct logic for --separate-widget so its string is written before
1036 each output, rather than only for --and-widget option (report by
1038 + improve limit-check in center_label() for buttons.c (report by Tor
1040 + correct layout of --menu widget, which reduced display width due to
1041 logic for --inputmenu being applied whether or not that configuration
1042 was used (reports by Javier Kohen, Dimitar Zhekov and MAL
1043 <mal@komcept.com>). Fixes Debian #201215.
1044 + modify gauge widget to support --begin option (Hans-Joachim Baader).
1045 + updated pl.po (Jaroslaw Swierczynski).
1046 + hide cursor while painting gauge.
1047 + add auto-sizing logic to gauge widget (reports by Javier Kohen and
1051 + rewrote inputstr.c, allowing it to enter and display wide-characters.
1052 Some nonprinting characters such as control/B can be edited as well.
1053 + modify timebox to allow user to type numbers into the fields.
1054 + change interfaces of dlg_getc(), mouse_wgetch(), etc., to add
1055 parameter that returns whether the result is really a function-key.
1056 This is needed to work with wide-character curses.
1057 + correct computation of week-number in calendar widget (report by
1059 + updated configure script macros:
1060 + suppress -Winline with gcc 3.3, since it is broken.
1061 + fix caching bug in CF_UTF8_LIB
1062 + improved script for CF_BUNDLED_INTL.
1063 + update config.guess, config.sub
1066 + add null-pointer checks to some malloc calls which were overlooked.
1067 + correct logic in dlg_add_result(), which did not copy content of
1068 non-allocated buffer to the first allocation (report by Daniel
1072 + correct an uninitialized value in dlg_add_result() (Debian #182683).
1075 + corrected print_line(), which subtracted the margin twice from the
1076 right-limit, making a string wrap unnecessarily (Debian #168823).
1077 + correct initial limit-check for arrows in checklist.c, which used
1078 the wrong variable, showing the bottom arrow when it should not
1080 + modify driver to always call show_result(), to simplify updates.
1081 + fix several memory leaks, important if dialog is run with a large
1082 number of widgets (report by albert.veli@telia.com forwarded by
1084 + check if the screen output is actually to the terminal before trying
1085 to suppress xterm's alternate screen mode (see 2000/01/18) (report by
1087 + use dialog_vars.input_result consistently to return the text which is
1088 printed after a widget completes. In many cases, dialog now
1089 allocates enough space to hold the text, rather than use a fixed
1090 buffer. The checklist widget was writing directly to the output to
1091 avoid limits of the fixed buffer.
1092 + modify dialog.c to also write dialog_vars.input_result if the
1093 Help-button was pressed (request by Amon Ott).
1094 + add hu.po (Arpad Biro).
1095 + update fr.po, pt.po, pt_BR.po to add strings for "Help" button (patch
1096 by Frederic L W Meunier).
1097 + fix off-by-one error in menu.c, checklist.c (reported by
1098 Tomasz Wasiak 2002/09/15 and others:
1099 Andrew Gaul 2002/11/12,
1100 Tobias C Rittweiler 2002/11/19,
1101 Arpad Biro 2003/01/21).
1102 + updated configure script, improving checks for ncurses in various
1103 locations, updated NLS script to match lynx. Added --with-curses-dir
1105 > Tobias C Rittweiler:
1106 + make ifdef in mousewget.c consistent with usage in dialog.h
1107 + use beep() rather than flash() in dlg_edit_string(), for consistency
1108 with the other functions.
1109 + change order of buttons so extra button falls between Ok/Cancel.
1110 + fix so "dialog --print-maxsize" exits from curses.
1111 + add --inputmenu option.
1114 + modify checklist.c and menubox.c to treat the extra button like the
1115 "Ok" button by making dialog print the chosen items (request by
1116 Tobias C Rittweiler).
1117 + add examples checklist6 and menubox6 to illustrate the --colors
1119 + implement -colors option, which allows one to highlight words in the
1120 titles and most text areas with color or video attributes (adapted
1121 from patch by Tobias C Rittweiler).
1122 + add examples inputbox4, inputbox5 to illustrate how to use the
1123 --output-fd option, and how to use dialog without any temporary
1125 + add --output-fd option (Debian #153984).
1126 + documented vi-style keys for calendar, textbox widgets in manpage.
1129 + improve mouse handling, e.g., for up/down scrolling in calendar,
1131 + add --extra-button and --extra-label options (adapted from patch
1132 by Tobias C Rittweiler).
1133 + correct displayed cursor position in inputbox when returning to the
1134 input area after traversing the buttons with tabs, etc.
1135 + add left/right arrows for traversal in calendar and timebox dialogs.
1136 + implement two new functions dlg_next_ok_buttonindex() and
1137 dlg_prev_ok_buttonindex(), using these to hide details about the
1138 traversal over buttons in several widgets.
1139 + modify checklist.c and menubox.c to verify if both --help-button and
1140 --item-help are specified before assuming that selecting the help
1141 button should cause the "HELP {item-help}" message to be printed
1142 (reported by Marcel Ritter).
1143 + modify init_dialog() to work around HP's broken tty driver (report by
1144 John Mudd). Specifically, the problem is that when opening /dev/tty
1145 directly (to support the --stdout option), the terminal does not
1146 change to raw mode. The workaround opens /dev/tty only as needed;
1147 the --stdout option does not work on HPUX but otherwise dialog works.
1148 + updated el.po (patch by kromJx <kromJx@crosswinds.net>).
1151 + add --no-collapse option to allow one to retain tabs and repeated
1152 blanks in a message box (request by Roberto Simoni).
1153 + use DLG_EXIT_ESC constant rather than -1's in several places. This
1154 has the effect of changing some exit-with-error cases to denote that
1155 the exit was because ESC was pressed (patch by Diego Alvarez,
1156 forward by Santiago Vila).
1157 + bump package version to 0.9b (with patch-date, as usual).
1158 + add --exit-label option (request by Roberto Simoni).
1159 + updated de.po to correct translation for "Cancel" (from Michael
1160 Piefel, Debian #146402).
1161 + use definitions from autoconf macro AC_HEADER_TIME to ensure that
1162 time() is properly prototyped.
1163 + update pl.po, adding translation for "Help" (patch by Jaroslaw
1164 Swierczynski <swiergot@hacking.pl>).
1165 + update COPYING file, to reflect address change of FSF (reported by
1167 + update some configuration script macros: CF_CHECK_CACHE,
1168 CF_CURSES_CPPFLAGS, CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_MAKEFLAGS.
1169 + correct misuse of "$with_XXX" variables in the configure script,
1170 which prevented configuration against curses library as opposed to
1172 + update config.guess, config.sub
1175 + modify geometry of samples/fselect scripts to allow them to run in
1176 a 24x80 screen (report/patch by Santiago Vila).
1177 + correct exit-code for menubox.c when Cancel is pressed. This was
1178 unintentionally altered when adding --help-button (reported by
1179 Patrick J Volkerding)
1182 + add --timeout option, which forces the program to exit with an error
1183 if no user response is given within the specified number of seconds
1184 (request by <andrew@argoncorp.com>).
1185 + modify calendar widget to allow day/month/year values to default to
1186 the current date (request by <Ron.Perrella@bellsouth.com>).
1187 + modify display of buttons in checklist.c and menubox.c to handle the
1188 case where the button label is empty (Debian #134388).
1189 + extended logic for ok/cancel/help to make this work with checklist
1191 + revert pt_BT.po, apply changes to pt.po (report by Frederic L W
1193 > several changes from Stanislav Ievlev:
1194 + add options --help-button and --help-label to make menubox display a
1195 third button which can be used to return an exit code causing the
1196 calling script to show extended help information.
1197 + use home/end keys in input string-editing, e.g., inputbox.
1198 + add option --max-input to limit length of string returned by inputbox
1199 and other widgets which allow the user to edit a string.
1202 + add --ok-label and --cancel-label options (request by Kyle Sallee).
1203 + correct usage message for --fselect option (reported by Patrick J
1205 + add samples/debian.rc, for comparison with slackware.rc
1206 + corrected samples/slackware.rc, which was just the compiled-in
1207 default values (patch by Patrick J Volkerding).
1208 + modify search rule for rc-file to add a global rc file /etc/dialogrc
1209 (patch by Patrick J Volkerding).
1210 + updated pt_BR.po with modified entries for fselect.c (Frederic L W
1212 + add pl.po (Swiergot <swiergot@l02.ids.czest.pl>).
1215 + modify command-line parsing to allow a "--" argument to act as an
1216 escape, so the next argument is not recognized as an option if it
1217 begins with "--". This is apparently one of popt's undocumented
1218 features, upon which some Debian scripts depend (Debian #116642).
1219 + add da.po (Morten Brix Pedersen <morten@wtf.dk>).
1220 + add an install-strip rule to makefile, changing the normal install
1221 rule to not strip the installed executable (based on discussion with
1223 + initialize my_output variable if user cannot open /dev/tty, e.g., if
1224 su'd to another user (patch by Richard Braakman (<dark@ssh.com>), Debian
1226 + add configure option --with-ncursesw, to allow configure/build with
1227 wide-character version of ncurses.
1230 + add option --ignore, to make dialog be ignore options that it does
1232 + add option --trim, to trim literal newlines and repeated spaces from
1233 text that will be displayed. Add samples/msgbox2, which is the
1234 same as msgbox1, but using --trim (cf: change for Debian #102942).
1235 + minor correction to attributes for buttons.c to use active_attr on
1236 the right-side of a button.
1237 + add a sample dialog rc-file slackware.rc based on diffs in hdasetup
1239 http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/slackware/slackware/source/a/hdsetup/
1240 (discussion with Frederic L W Meunier).
1241 + modify dialog.pl to avoid using a statically-named tempfile, allowing
1242 multiple processes to use this script (patch by James Ranson
1243 (<euclid80@yahoo.com>), Debian #110609).
1244 + correct fprintf() call in j_menu() function, i.e., "--menu" option,
1245 which did not guard against expanding '%' embedded in the parameters
1246 (Stavros Chatzistefanidis <sxatz@yahoo.com>).
1247 + add et.po (Ivar Smolin <okul@trenet.ee>).
1248 + update fr.po (Frederic L W Meunier).
1249 + modify to allow scripts to alter the exit codes, mainly to
1250 distinguish ESC and ERROR exits. This is done by setting a shell
1251 variable such as DIALOG_ESC to a new value (request by Petr Vandrovec
1252 (<vandrove@vc.cvut.cz>), Debian #99264)
1255 + use VPATH in makefile to support build with configure --srcdir, if
1256 the make program supports that. Note that samples/install/makefile
1257 is not generated, due to awkward limitation of autoconf script
1258 (reported by Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>).
1259 + add po/pt_BR.po (Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>).
1260 + correct sense of --enable/--disable shown in configure --help (report
1261 by Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>).
1262 + correct logic for --clear option, broken in 2000/07/02 (fixes Debian
1266 + porting fixes to work on AIX: flush output to work around bug in
1267 curses library, use ./killall in scripts to avoid conflict with
1268 AIX program by that name.
1269 + modify dlg_trim_string() to retain literal newlines if the string
1270 does not contain "\\n" strings, and to retain leading blanks on the
1271 resulting lines, for compatibility with older scripts (Debian
1273 + add charset specification to cs.po
1274 + change dates in CHANGES to consistent format, add el.po for Greek
1275 (patch by kromJx <kromJx@crosswinds.net>).
1276 + eliminate static globals (bss, data) from modules rc, tailbox,
1277 textbox using better parameter-passing convention, and const.
1278 + cleanup temporary files in a few of the sample scripts.
1279 + rewrote tailboxbg using select() rather than fork(), thereby
1280 eliminating lock-files. Only one process should be trying to display
1281 on the screen at any given time.
1282 + add error check to ensure that numeric parameters are really numbers.
1283 + correct off-by-one in error messages reporting too-few or too-many
1284 tokens for a given option (reported by George Mirchev).
1285 + fix typo in manpage, "textboxbg" where "tailboxbg" was meant
1286 (reported by George Mirchev <la@mail.techno-link.com>).
1287 + use DLG_EXIT_xxx symbols consistently for all exit codes.
1288 + updated es.po (patch by Santiago Vila).
1289 + updates for some configure script macros from lynx: CF_MAKEFLAGS,
1290 CF_NCURSES_VERSION, CF_PROG_EXT.
1291 + fixes to compile if <term.h> is included, e.g., when building with
1292 AIX curses (report by Suzi Dowson <Suzi.Dowson@capgemini.co.uk>).
1295 + updated dialog.pot
1296 + modify fselect.c to work with autosize, i.e., given height and width
1297 zero (report by Martin Povolny).
1298 + add a null-pointer check in justify_text(), needed by fselect.c
1299 + add several more options which dialog can safely ignore, from
1301 + refinements for configure macros checking for $CPPFLAGS, from lynx.
1302 + update config.guess, config.sub to match autoconf 2.50
1303 > Martin Povolny <martin@solnet.cz>:
1305 + use nl_langinfo() to customize names for day-of-week, and month
1308 > Vincent Stemen <dialog@AdvancedResearch.org>:
1309 Fixed dialog.c to not pass menu items through dlg_trim_string().
1310 Stripping extra spaces out of the menu items broke some of my
1311 scripts by altering the string that it compared to know which menu
1312 item was selected. There should be no need to do justification on
1313 the menu items, which are always one line, anyway.
1316 > Vincent Stemen <dialog@AdvancedResearch.org>:
1317 + rewrote the text justification code to be able to have preformatted
1318 text in the prompts with extra spaces like the older versions of
1319 dialog. If there are "\n" strings in the text, then extra spaces are
1320 preserved. Lines are always wrapped on word boundaries.
1321 + fixed --cr-wrap to break lines on '\n' (newline) characters and not
1322 add an extra line at the top and bottom of the text. It now works
1323 as the manual says it should.
1324 + it is no longer necessary to use "\n\" at the end of lines to escape
1325 the '\n' character. "\n" now works. However, the old way, "\n\"
1327 + the fixes involved the following changes:
1328 - rewrote dlg_trim_string() to recognize preformatted text (know
1329 when not to strip extra spaces) and to pay attention to --cr-wrap.
1330 - rewrote justify_text() which now calls a new function in util.c,
1331 print_line(), to print each line and end it on a word boundary.
1332 - modified real_auto_size() to call a new function
1333 auto_size_preformated() to calculate the box size for preformatted
1335 - removed skip_blanks() and skip_text() since they are not used by
1336 the new justify_text().
1337 - modified dialog.c to not call dlg_trim_string() on title strings
1338 so that titles retain their spaces.
1339 + modified the following demo files in the sample directory:
1341 changed all "\n\" strings to "\n" to demonstrate the extra
1342 backslash is no longer needed.
1344 removed all the "\n\" strings from the end of the lines to
1345 properly demonstrate --cr-wrap.
1347 this sample was using "--aspect 9 --cr-wrap". Rewrote it to
1348 properly demonstrate --aspect. 9 is already dialog's default
1349 aspect ratio. It now creates several dialogs in sequence,
1350 demonstrating aspect ratios of 9, 12 and 6 and properly
1351 demonstrates --cr-wrap.
1352 + made the following changes to the manual (dialog.1).
1353 - rewrote the description of --aspect to be more understandable.
1354 - rewrote the description of --cr-wrap to be more correct and more
1355 detailed. It did say, "Otherwise, the text for each dialog will
1356 display on a single line.", which is not correct. It wraps the
1357 text to fit in the box.
1359 + use logic from menubox dialog in checklist to handle autosizing when
1360 list height is given as zero (fixes problem reported by Eric Veltman
1361 <eveltman@baan.nl>).
1362 + modify checklist and menubox dialogs to check for too-wide data, and
1363 truncate one or both of the name and text fields to fit (also
1364 reported by Eric Veltman).
1365 + corrected a few items from Vincent's patch:
1366 - use C89-style comments rather than C++
1367 - restore logic in justify_text() which checks for win==0, needed to
1368 work with standard curses implementations other than ncurses.
1369 The first call on justify_text() passes a null pointer as a flag
1370 to indicate that checking should be done, but no screen updates.
1371 - avoid modifying the buffer in decode_percent(), otherwise a message
1372 containing a space or newline would be truncated at the whitespace.
1373 - modify dlg_button_x_step() and dlg_button_layout() slightly to
1374 work with altered print_autowrap(), etc.
1375 + fixes to build/work with SunOS 4.x 5lib curses
1378 + fix a memory leak in mouse_region().
1379 + simplify handling of optional parameters with new functions
1380 optional_str() and optional_num().
1381 + add calendar and timebox dialogs (compatible with Xdialog).
1382 + correct typo in fallback definition for getparyx, and remove void
1383 cast for mouse_open and mouse_close which prevented build with
1384 Sun's Solaris compiler.
1385 + rename --enable-lxdialog configure option to --enable-Xdialog
1386 + modify CF_NCURSES_CPPFLAGS macro to match more variations of ncurses
1388 + update config.guess, config.sub
1389 + modify some configure script macros to avoid problems with buggy
1390 autoconf 2.49c which breaks changequote().
1393 + small fix to revised real_auto_size() and justify_text() to avoid
1394 adding origin to box-width, which broke samples/wheel.
1395 + apply 1999/12/25 tempfile change to wheel and copismall samples.
1396 + add sample script for tailboxbg.
1397 + revised lock-file management to better ensure that locks are actually
1398 created by the tailbox subprocess(es).
1399 + correct hardcoded signal 15 in tailbox to SIGHUP to match
1400 documentation. Signal 15 is usually SIGTERM, which cannot be caught.
1401 + correct off-by-one comparison of return-value for arg_rest() which
1403 dialog --gauge test 10 50
1404 dump core because it expected a 4th parameter (fixes Debian #80641).
1405 + resync config.sub, config.guess from
1406 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/config/ (which finally have
1407 cases for OS/2 EMX), minor tweaks to related configure script macros.
1410 + restore treatment of predefined height/width in real_auto_size()
1411 which was lost in 2000/12/12 rewrite (report by Raphael Halimi
1412 <raphaelh@easynet.fr>).
1413 + updates for configure script macros AM_PATH_PROG_WITH_TEST,
1414 CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_LIB_PREFIX, CF_PROG_EXT for $PATHSEP and $CFLAGS
1418 + correct change for create_lock(), which resulted in an infinite loop
1419 (patch by Chris Butler, <chrisb@debian.org>).
1422 + rewrote print_autowrap() and real_auto_size() to share common code
1423 justify_text(), which now does text flow even when the string
1424 contains newlines (fixes Debian #77199).
1425 + improve create_lock() function using open() with O_EXCL rather than
1426 fopen() (patch by Matt Kraai (<kraai@debian.org>), Debian #78951).
1427 + correct description of --fselect in man page (patch by Tomas Pospisek
1428 (<tpo@spin.ch>), Debian #77200).
1429 + add --no-cancel as alias for --nocancel for compatibility with
1430 Xdialog (report by Luis E Limon <luisl@abriasoft.com>).
1433 + some lint fixes using lclint (mostly void-casts, but some
1434 sign-extension fixes e.g., for ctype.h macros, and loop in
1435 dlg_char_to_button()).
1436 + modified to build/run on OS/2 EMX with ncurses.
1437 + minor changes to po/*.po (trim trailing blanks, provide explicit
1438 translation for "OK"), to work with Solaris gettext.
1439 + modified to allow this to build with archaic version (1.8.6)
1440 of ncurses on FreeBSD 3.1 (does not run).
1441 + update config.guess, config.sub from subversions.gnu.org
1444 + use new function sub_window() to check success/failure of calls to
1445 subwin(), printing an error message if it fails (fixes Debian #74903).
1446 + use combination of isatty/ttyname to look for workable tty device
1447 on systems which have no /dev/tty, e.g., BeOS.
1450 + change exiterr() to use stdarg.h, make some messages easier to
1452 + add dialog_clear()
1453 + make samples/install/setup build.
1454 + implemented mouse support for buttons, e.g., in yesno dialog using
1455 ncurses (the gpm support no longer works, but is useful for reference)
1456 + add a configure check for chtype.
1457 + updates for configure script macros (CF_BUNDLED_INTL, CF_CURSES_LIBS,
1458 CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_GCC_WARNINGS, CF_INCLUDE_DIRS), and scripts
1459 config.guess, config.sub
1460 + cleanup of item-help change, integrate with checklist and radiobox.
1461 + add ja.po, from Hirofumi Takeda <takepin@turbolinux.co.jp>.
1462 > patch by Marco Mariani <marcom@sferacarta.com>
1463 + add --item-help option, which makes menubox data interpreted as
1464 3 columns rather than 2. The third column is displayed on the
1465 last line of the screen as a help/status message for the currently
1468 + change TAG_KEY_HL to FALSE, making unselected items in checklist
1469 easier to read on Linux console.
1472 + change real_auto_size() to allow it to be used for dialogs that have
1473 no prompt, e.g., fselect. Also, rather than requiring both height
1474 and width to be given as -1 for maximizing the dialog, allow either
1476 + increase minimum height needed for autosized yesno dialog.
1477 + add --version as an alias for --print-version.
1478 + fix for build on Solaris without NLS (cannot redefine 'gettext()').
1479 + add fselect dialog (compatible with Xdialog).
1480 + add --enable-lxdialog configure option.
1481 + use new configure macro CF_ARG_MSG_ENABLE to show progress with
1482 enable/disable switches.
1485 + implement --stdout and --stderr options as in Xdialog.
1486 + move logic that translates "\\n" into '\n' into main program to
1487 simplify logic that formats text.
1488 + make ifdef's for rc-file not specific to ncurses.
1489 + correct logic making percent parameter of gauge optional.
1492 + add alternate test-script for gauge, adapted from Xdialog.
1493 + modify gauge to make optional a percentage which was read at the
1494 beginning of the XXX-delimited message text, since clones of dialog
1495 are written to assume this is text. If the line is not a simple
1496 integer, dialog will treat it as text.
1497 + make the percent parameter of gauge optional, as in Xdialog.
1498 + undo one use of CharOf() in guage.c, an error.
1499 + fix configure macro AM_WITH_NLS to refrain from attempting to make a
1500 symbolic link into/libintl.h if we are not using the bundled intl
1501 directory from gettext (reported by Julian Coleman
1502 <J.D.Coleman@newcastle.ac.uk>).
1503 + add ru.po, from Michael Sobolev <mss@transas.com>
1504 + updates for config.guess, config.sub from tin.
1505 + updates for configure script macros: CF_MATH_LIB (improperly nested
1506 brackets/parenthesis) and CF_XOPEN_CURSES (make include of
1507 <*curses.h> depend on configure tests).
1510 + repaint screen when a control/L is pressed.
1511 + apply CharOf() macro to avoid sign-extension on calls to waddch(),
1512 fixes a problem with accented characters (reported by Santiago Vila).
1513 + add es.po, from Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>
1516 + modified to use gettext (configure option --enable-nls). This uses
1517 gettext 0.10.35, which must be previously installed. (It can also
1518 use an included intl library, but I consider that to be a waste of
1520 + remove code in checklist/radiobox, menubox that try to use
1521 abbreviations for the OK/Cancel buttons since those conflict with the
1522 check for abbreviations in list entries, which are more useful.
1523 + moved padding of button labels out of string literals, into the
1524 logic of dlg_draw_buttons().
1525 + resync/update with configure macros CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_FIND_LIBRARY,
1526 CF_HEADER_PATH, CF_LIBRARY_PATH and CF_NCURSES_LIBS, as well as
1527 mkdirs.sh and config.guess.
1530 + add --default-item option, for menubox to set the default selection
1531 (fixes Debian #49796).
1532 + add sample scripts for --nocancel and --fb options with inputbox.
1533 + modify inputbox* sample scripts to show application errors, if any.
1534 + add --nocancel option, and ignore --noitem, --fb, --fullbutton, to
1535 make this compatible with whiptail scripts. (whiptail does not
1536 handle many dialog scripts however).
1537 + modify checklist/radiobox to handle home, end, nextpage, prevpage
1538 keys, as well as make the abbreviation search work for the whole
1539 list, not only the current page.
1540 + treat KEY_LL the same as KEY_END in checklist and textbox.
1541 + add logic for KEY_BTAB.
1542 + use new function dlg_draw_buttons() to better manage the layout of
1543 yes/no/ok/cancel buttons.
1544 + another pass of cleanup of dialog.c, makes it use a single table for
1545 lookup of option names and help-message. Eliminated numerous
1546 adjustments to 'offset' variable.
1547 + on initialization, check if standard input is from a terminal. If
1548 not, open /dev/tty (fixes Debian #57771)
1551 + implement inline editing in textbox.c search dialog.
1552 + revise inputbox.c, allowing inline editing with arrow-keys. removed
1553 redundant logic in that module.
1554 + correct a typo that prevented rc-file configuration from building.
1555 + correct ifdef's to compile/run if the curses implementation does not
1559 + improve test-case for gauge.
1560 + change gauge.c to show progress in reverse-video, add a check for
1561 end-of-file in the loop for reading new messages.
1562 + use curses whline() function to simplify print_arrows() logic in
1563 checklist.c and menubox.c
1564 + use curses beep() function rather than hardcoded strings.
1565 + correct several compiler warnings for gcc -pedantic (mismatch of
1566 const, signed/unsigned).
1567 + modify exiterr() to avoid possible expansion of '%'.
1568 + change CF_MATH_LIB configure macro to allow specifying a particular
1569 test-function. For dialog, this should be sqrt(). The macro was
1570 originally written for ncurses, which needs sin(). However, that is
1571 a builtin function on the m68k port (reported by Roman Hodek
1572 <Roman.Hodek@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>, this fixes Debian #55553).
1575 + update manpage (Debian #25648).
1576 + modify configure test for math library to avoid using a constant
1577 parameter to the test function, lest gcc optimize the call away
1578 (fixes Debian #55553).
1579 + restructure help-message so actual problem is indicated. The original
1580 help-message is shown if no parameters are given, or if the --help
1581 option is specified alone.
1582 + suppress xterm's alternate screen mode by sending an exit_ca_mode
1583 after initscr if the terminal looks like xterm, e.g., has key_mouse
1584 defined, and has private-mode escapes in both enter_ca_mode and
1585 exit_ca_mode (fixes Debian #55181).
1586 + change yellow lettering on white to blue on white, since it offers
1587 better contrast (fixes Debian #51196).
1588 + use napms() rather than sleep().
1589 + some cleanup/simplification of main program. Indent'd dialog.c and
1591 + eliminate several places where repeated options are treated as
1592 an error, since they are really executed once anyway.
1595 + remove pre-autoconf Makefile
1596 + remove sleep's from a few of the sample scripts, which left users
1597 thinking that dialog was slow to complete an action.
1598 + rewrote infobox sample script, using dialog's --sleep option and
1599 a loop in the script.
1600 + change 'ch' variable in tailbox.c to an integer, because it is
1601 compared against EOF (fixes Debian #53157).
1602 + corrected mandir variable in makefile.in (reported by Santiago Vila).
1603 + small changes to sample scripts, from Debian: rename "guage" script
1604 to "gauge", change path to copy of GPL used in textbox.
1605 + add uninstall rule to makefile.in, fixed some dependencies so
1606 "make install" works without first doing "make all".
1609 + use more portable scheme for tempfile generation in samples.
1610 + add a configure script, prefer to not use the original Makefile
1611 because it works only with GNU make.
1612 + correct prototype of 'main()', which misused const.
1613 + modify guage.c to use fgets() rather than gets().
1614 + merge changes from Debian package maintainer
1615 Santiago Vila <sanvila@ctv.es>:
1618 + add a password dialog box.
1619 + implement "--defaultno" option to specify if the default for
1620 the yes/no box is "No".
1622 + modify input.c to clear the input field to the right of the
1623 given string (unclear: this seems redundant, since the
1624 dialog is drawn in a new window).
1626 + check for list_height less than one in checklist.c
1628 + use function wscrl() in preference to scroll() in checklist.c
1629 and menubox.c (unclear: in ncurses, scroll() is a macro that
1631 + remove the "-I/usr/include/ncurses" option from Makefile
1632 since Debian does not install ncurses' header files into
1635 + simplify menubox.c using new functions print_arrows() and
1637 + add logic to handle KEY_NPAGE and KEY_PPAGE.
1638 + change sample scripts to use Debian tempfile utility rather
1639 than putting files into /tmp.
1640 + change sample scripts to use 'dialog' from user's path rather
1641 than in the parent directory as in the build directory.
1642 + use the system copy of GPL rather than that in the build
1643 directory as an example for the textbox script.
1646 + fix some gcc warnings about ambiguous use of "else"
1649 + cleaned up some of the redundant code with new functions:
1656 + modified msgbox.c and yesno.c to work with the KEY_RESIZE sigwinch
1657 handling in ncurses 4.2
1659 + corrected spelling of "gauge"
1661 The relevant portions of the Debian change log for the original version
1662 (dialog-0.9a-12) are abstracted here, omitting details of their packaging:
1666 + Replaced guage.c by the one in dialog 0.6z, which is known to work.
1667 Fixes Bug #18284: unstable dialog.
1671 + dialog.c: dialog_input_result printed with "%s" format. This was
1672 Bug #9913, fixed by Bill Mitchell, but the change was lost.
1673 + Pristine source, .depend is not removed in clean target. Instead, it
1674 is made zero lenght (otherwise it would not work *without* fakeroot).
1675 + Added '^U' support in input box (Bug #9915, patch by joey@debian.org).
1676 + Wrote patch to fix core-dumping problem (Bug #13170). Sven Rudolph
1677 <sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de>: