1 -- $Id: CHANGES,v 1.476 2013/09/24 00:06:47 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 + fix samples/inputbox6-utf8, which had depended unnecessarily on bash.
9 + improve memory caching for wide-character manipulation in gauge
10 widget (report by Devin Teske).
11 + add dlg_reallocate_gauge (discussion with Devin Teske).
12 + updated configure macros to use msys changes from ncurses.
13 + update config.guess, config.sub
16 + modify makefile rule to make the ".png" filenames created by groff
18 + add option --help-tags to allow scripts to get the item's tag field
19 consistently from help- and help-item button results rather than
20 getting the item's text for the latter (discussion with Florent
22 + correct manpage discussion of DIALOG_ITEM_HELP versus --item-help,
23 as well as --help-button return status (report by Florent Rougon).
24 + correct limit used for --hline option (report by Devin Teske,
26 + do not print empty "[]" if a --hline option was given with an empty
27 value (report by Devin Teske).
28 + miscellaneous configure script fixes/updates. In particular, add
29 option --with-shared which builds shared libraries without a libtool
31 + add FreeBSD port-files for test-builds.
32 + update lt.po, add fa.po from
33 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
34 + update config.guess, config.sub
37 + modify ifdef in arrows.c to work around packages which use the
38 wide-character ncursesw headers with the ncurses library (report
40 + correct workaround for xterm alternate-screen to work with/without
41 the fix made in ncurses that makes putp() always write to the
42 standard output (Debian #708829).
43 + improve limit-checks for checklist, in case the dialog is resized
44 (report by Ilya A Arkhipov).
45 + add --last-key option (adapted from patch by Jordi Pujol, Debian
49 + update zh_TW.po, add an.po from
50 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
52 2012/12/30 - release 1.2
53 + improve some older changelog entries to help with HTML'izing content.
54 + various fixes/improvments for scrollbar appearance.
55 + add mappings for some equivalent options provided by whiptail;
56 add configure option --disable-whiptail to allow suppressing these.
57 + add configure option --disable-Xdialog2 to allow suppressing the
58 newer features, i.e., for cdialog 1.2
59 + add --no-items option, for consistency.
60 + add --no-tags option, like Xdialog.
61 + add buildlist, rangebox and treeview dialogs, like Xdialog.
62 + remove obsolete workaround for ncurses 4.2 scrolling in checklist
64 + improve dialog_helpfile() by preventing it from showing extra buttons
65 (suggested by xDog Walker).
66 + correct logic in formbox's scroll_next() function (report by xDog
68 + fix a case with inputbox widget where preset input text is not shown
69 until moving the cursor within the text (report by xDog Walker).
70 + handle SIGCHLD in dialog_prgbox() to eliminate defunct processes
71 (report by xDog Walker).
72 + improve the way "hotkeys" are assigned to widget buttons by checking
73 if a given key has already been used in the row of buttons (Debian
75 + amend fix for --trace parsing from 2012/07/03, which sometimes
76 skipped a parameter (report by xDog Walker).
77 + drop copismall and install files from samples, which were essentially
79 + correct secondary border colors in samples/slackware.rc and
81 + update gl.po, add ia.po from
82 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
83 + fix various issues reported by coverity scan.
84 + miscellaneous configure script fixes/updates:
85 + require autoconf 2.52+patches
86 + support --datarootdir option
87 + check for clang compiler
88 + check for tinfo library when looking for ncurses
89 + add 3rd parameter to AC_DEFINE for autoheader
90 + remove unused macros from aclocal.m4
91 + update config.guess, config.sub
94 + modify samples/setup-tempfile to work with Tru64's shell.
95 + modify inputmenu sample scripts to make them more portable:
96 + use "id" rather than "$GROUPS", use sed to work with Solaris.
97 + use sed to split-up the rename results to work with HPUX.
98 + fix regression in msgbox (ArchLinux #30574)
101 + modify prgbox widget to work with --extra-button, etc.
102 + add case values to several widgets to allow for mouse-clicks with
103 "--extra-button" and "--help-button" additions.
104 + correct timebox widget's exit code for "--extra-button" when handing
106 + modify msgbox widget to honor "--extra-button".
107 + corrected processing of "--trace" option, which did not update the
108 index into command-line to point past its value.
109 + add a check in dialog program for valid characters used in option,
110 e.g., to generate an error if a script attempts to add option value
111 using "=" rather than with whitespace.
112 + add new command-line option --default-button and library function
113 dlg_default_button() to retrieve the value set by the option
114 to provide a way to set the default button directly rather than
115 by combining --nook, etc. (patch by Zoltan Kelemen).
116 + amend include of unctrl.h to apply only to the case where curses.h
117 is included, to avoid conflict of ncurses' unctrl.h with a system
118 implementation (report by Martin Roedlach)
119 + add limit-check to dlg_toupper() in non-wide curses mode to work
120 when non-character values such as arrow-key codes are passed to
121 it (patch by Zoltan Kelemen).
122 + override timeout value, e.g., as set via --timeout command-line
123 option in pause widget because that interferes with pause's behavior
124 (report by Jan Spitalnik).
125 + modify samples/inputmenu* to allow ":" in renamed text (report by
127 + modify double-quoting to make it more consistent, i.e., checklist
128 output is quoted only when needed. This fixes the case where
129 single-quotes were used whether or not needed, but also modifies
130 older checklist behavior for double-quoting which always added those
132 + correct exit-code used in inputmenu for "rename" button (Debian
133 #673041, forwarded from Ubuntu #333909, patch by Lebedev Vadim).
134 + update el.po and hr.po from
135 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
136 + use checkbashisms to clean up sample scripts.
139 + modify menubox.c to use the same improvement as in checklist.c
140 + improve auto width computation for checklist widget by using
141 dlg_calc_list_width as in the non-auto case (Edho Arief).
142 + eliminate some bashisms in the sample scripts (Pedro Giffuni).
143 + makefile fixes from FreeBSD ports (Li-Wen Hsu):
144 + make --with-package option of configure script work.
145 + get LIBTOOL_VERSION from configure script, needed by
146 ${LIBTOOL_VERSION} in LIBTOOL_CREATE (LIB_CREATE in configure and
148 + update cs.po and sr.po from
149 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
150 + updated configure script macros, improving CF_XOPEN_SOURCE among
154 + fix --analyze warnings for clang versions 2.8, 2.9.
155 + add configure check for lint program.
156 + add check in dlg_getc() in case its window is freed as a side effect
157 of removing callbacks.
158 + fix logic in freeing subwindows (report by xDog Walker).
159 + fix a regression in logic distinguishing between inputmenu and menu
160 widgets (report by xDog Walker).
161 + minor fixes to library manpage.
164 + modify header-sh.in to work around limit on sed script length on
166 + add a special case of parameter parsing for "--trace" to the
167 initialization done before calling init_dialog(), to allow users to
168 capture the initial state of the parameter list before any options
169 are processed and removed. This is only done if "--trace" is the
170 first option, otherwise it is handled in the common options as before
171 (report by xDog Walker).
172 + modify samples/testdata-8bit, discarding $1 from the parameter list
173 if it was used, so that the source'ing scripts can consistently use
174 "$@" to insert parameters before the widget, e.g., as an alternative
175 to using $DIALOGOPTS (report by xDog Walker).
176 + modify treatment of function pointers in menubox.c, make
177 dlg_renamed_menutext() and dlg_dummy_menutext() visible to library
178 users (request by xDog Walker).
179 + add dlg_count_real_columns(), use to modify centering for "--hline"
180 text to account for "\Z"s (report by xDog Walker).
181 + improve check in dlg_draw_arrows2() for conflict between the window
182 title and up-arrow marker to take into account that the given window
183 may not be the top-level window of the widget.
184 + change width of page up/down mouse areas in fselect panes to use the
185 full width of the panes rather than only the portion from the left
186 margin to the up/down arrow.
187 + add/use dlg_draw_box2() and dlg_draw_bottom_box2() to use the
189 + modify rc-file read/write to accept/generate color values that refer
190 to previously-processed items in the color table. This reduces the
191 number of distinct colors that must be specified to set up a color
193 + add color table entries for secondary borders, i.e., the ones that
194 are normally drawn with the dialog's text-colors (Debian #641168).
195 + modify fselect.c to scan the current directory if the input field
196 happens to be empty (Debian #640905).
197 + repeated the discussion of environment variables that can override
198 the exit-status values in the manpage's return-codes section
200 + add an example to the manpage showing how to override the form
201 widget's keys used for field/button traversal (Debian #642108).
202 + modify call to dlg_register_window() in formbox.c so that the editing
203 bindings are attached to the form sub-window rather than the
204 top-level dialog window. Also change the name by which the editing
205 bindings are bound for editbox.c, fselect.c and inputbox.c, so that
206 the editing and navigation bindings can be different.
207 + correct logic in dlg_lookup_key() so that it matches the widget name
208 before using a binding from .dialogrc, allowing the inner/outer
209 windows of form and other editing widgets to have different bindings.
210 + modify dlg_register_window() to call dlg_dump_window_keys() after
211 its updates, via the --trace output, to supplement the manpage
212 description of key bindings (Debian #642108).
213 + add DLGK_FORM_PREV and DLGK_FORM_NEXT key-bindings to form.c, to
214 allow binding a single key to traverse both form-fields and buttons
216 + modify dlg_parse_rc() to check for error return from
218 + add function dlg_dump_window_keys(), to help with debugging widgets.
219 + add CR, LF, TAB, FF and ESC to table of curses names to help make
220 key bindings more readable.
221 + update table of dialog key-names so that helpfile and trace are
223 + correct dlg_dump_keys(), which was showing only the first item in
224 the matched binding table.
225 + save/restore window current position in dlg_update_mixedgauge().
226 + pass return-code from pause_for_ok() from dlg_progressbox() when
227 pauseopt is set, rather than only DLG_OK.
228 + call setlocale() in init_dialog() rather than relying on on-demand
229 use within inputstr.c, since there are paths in textbox widget which
230 do not exercise the latter (report by xDog Walker).
231 + fix some places where checks for "\Z" were done without also checking
232 dialog_vars.colors (report by Moray Henderson).
233 + correct logic for DIALOGOPTS parsing so that the parse happens only
234 once unless memory leak checking is enabled (report by xDog Walker).
235 + remove an incorrect free() call in dlg_free_gauge() (report by xDog
237 + modify dlg_trace_win() to log wide-characters (report by xDog Walker).
238 + make traces shorter by skipping repeated ERR's, but showing the
239 number skipped (report by xDog Walker).
240 + improve description in manpage to distinguish program box and
241 progress box from tailboxes (adapted from email by xDog Walker).
242 + modify dlg_trace_win() so that it looks for the topmost window in a
243 dialog. Because subwindows share space with the top window, tracing
244 the latter shows the whole widget (report by xDog Walker).
245 + expand tracing so that each window is traced before soliciting input,
246 making the ^T feature to print a window on demand partly redundant
247 (suggested by xDog Walker).
248 + cosmetic change in dialog.h to avoid "*/*" strings from comments next
249 to "*" (report by xDog Walker).
250 + ensure result from dlg_align_columns() has trailing null on each
251 string. Analysis was hindered by libc6's continuance of libc5's
252 early-1990s misfeature of clearing the result from malloc, noting
253 that libc6's documentation incorrectly claims that it does not do
254 this (report by xDog Walker).
257 + modify util.c to work better with old versions of ncurses:
258 + suppress use of wchgat() before fix in 20060715 which is needed
259 for simple shadow manipulation used here in 2011/06/30 (report
261 + add a null-pointer check in dlg_print_scrolled()
262 + fix a regression in dlg_getc() introduced by changes to intercept
263 F1 for help-popup (report by xDog Walker).
266 + correct license statement for prgbox.c (Debian #632198).
267 + correct layout when "--colors" is used, by discounting characters in
268 the escape sequences from the column counts (report by xDog Walker).
269 + modify dlg_checklist() so that only one item in the list can
270 initially be selected (report by xDog Walker).
271 + add/use macro dlg_enter_buttoncode() to improve implementation of
272 "--nook" option (report by xDog Walker).
273 + add option "--no-nl-expand" to suppress the conversion of "\n"
274 strings into newlines (request by xDog Walker).
275 + modify LIB_CREATE symbol in makefile.in to include the library
276 dependencies such as ncurses. This is needed when dynamically
277 loading the library (report/analysis by xDog Walker).
278 + modify dlg_exit_label() to suppress the Cancel button, for
280 + modify dlg_exit_label() to honor the --nook option, except when there
281 is no other button, e.g., the help-button.
282 + modify dlg_exit_buttoncode() so that it returns the proper code for
283 help-button (report by xDog Walker).
284 + correct loop limit when processing "--column-separator" (report by
286 + modify handling of "--version" and "--help" to ensure that they are
287 processed, and exit before widgets. Separate "--print-version"
288 from "--version", allowing its output to be interspersed with
289 widget output (report by xDog Walker).
290 + correct a few places where "--version" or "--help" options went
291 always to stdout rather than allowing redirection with the "--stderr"
292 option (report by xDog Walker).
293 + improve repainting after erasing a widget and its shadow.
294 + add "--hline" and "--hfile" options for compatibility with FreeBSD
295 dialog (request by Devin Teske).
296 + add dialog version message when opening a trace file (request by
298 + show filename of rc-file in traces.
299 + add piped-in data for gauge widget to traces.
300 + add entrypoints to gauge widget, for allocating, updating and freeing
301 the widget (adapted from patch by Stephen Hurd).
302 + fix a reference to freed memory in the gauge widget.
303 + fix --no-mouse option by actually closing the mouse (report by
306 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
307 + limit Solaris xpg4 portability fix for redefinition of ERR to cover
308 the specific value found in <sys/regset.h>, in case an application
309 includes dialog.h after curses.h (FreeBSD #156601, report by Jaakko
310 Heinonen, Stephen Hurd).
311 + updated configure macros:
312 + CF_CURSES_CPPFLAGS,
313 + CF_CURSES_LIBS, make checks for special libraries on hpux10 and
315 + CF_CURSES_FUNCS, workaround for bug in gcc 4.2.1 (FreeBSD 8.1)
316 which caused part of test program to be omitted, i.e., when it saw
317 two return-statements in a row it omitted the _first_ one. Also
318 add expression to pointer check to help FreeBSD's linker decide it
319 should be validated. Just an assignment was not enough. Also, add
321 + CF_CURSES_HEADER, change order for curses.h / ncurses.h pairs to
322 put ncurses.h first, which will tend to provide the same #define's
323 as in CF_NCURSES_HEADER (report by Dennis Preiser).
324 + CF_CURSES_TERM_H, modify to avoid spurious check for
325 <curses.hterm.h> if there is no ncurses version. Look for
326 ncurses's term.h anyway, to work around breakage by packagers who
327 separate ncurses' header files.
328 + CF_DISABLE_RPATH_HACK, fix garbled message
329 + CF_LD_RPATH_OPT, add mirbsd
330 + CF_MAKEFLAGS, filter out GNU make's entering/leaving messages.
331 This only appeared when using the macro in a dpkg script, though it
332 should have in other cases.
333 + CF_RPATH_HACK, add a check for libraries not found, e.g., from
334 suppressed functionality of gcc in linking from /usr/local/lib, and
335 add a -L option to help work around this.
336 + CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, workaround for cygwin to get ncurses' configure
337 script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED (cygwin's features.h
338 doesn't do anything, so it needs a crutch).
339 + update config.guess, config.sub
342 + add --prgbox and --programbox (adapted from patch by David Boyd).
344 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
345 + fix timeouts from 2011/01/18, which were being interpreted as
346 milliseconds rather than seconds (report by Luis Moreira).
349 + fix inconsistency in return-codes for textbox when help-button is
350 used by making dlg_exit_buttoncode() a wrapper for
352 + modify pause widget to use dlg_ok_buttoncode(), so help-button works.
353 + correct two infobox sample scripts, which did not pass extra
354 command-line parameters due to quoting problems.
355 + add a limit-check to the timebox widget (patch by Garrett Cooper).
356 + modify --trace option to also trace the command-line parameters.
357 + account for combining characters when wrapping text (Debian #570634).
358 + correct handling of SIGWINCH in gauge widget (Debian #305705).
359 + add gauge_color, to make guage's progress-bar distinct from
360 title_color (request by Dominic Derdau).
362 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
363 as well as resync line-numbers in the other po-files.
364 + modify configure script and dialog program to build with NetBSD's
365 wide-character curses functions, including workarounds for its
366 incorrect WACS_xxx definitions. Some of the UTF-8 examples work.
367 + add back-tab for traversal of tailboxbg widgets, for symmetry with
369 + reduce flicker in tailboxbg by checking if the input file size has
371 + modify internals of callbacks to avoid blocking reads of their
372 associated files by keyboard input.
373 + add command-line option --no-mouse, to suppress use of mouse.
374 + add configure option --enable-header-subdir to allow the header files
375 to be installed into a subdirectory named for the package.
376 + modify dlg_restore_vars() to retain the updated values of
377 input_result and input_length, eliminating the need for a caller to
378 provide their own user buffer (prompted by report by Thiago Bimbatti
380 + add a null-pointer check in show_result() for
381 dialog_vars.input_result, and ensure it is set to null after freeing
382 (prompted by report by Thiago Bimbatti Felicio).
383 + change order of -I options in CPPFLAGS (report by Michel Feldheim)
384 + modify pause-widget so that it no longer exits when an unrecognized
385 key is pressed (patch by Creidieki M Crouch).
386 + add --with-package option to configure script to allow renaming
387 of the dialog program and library, to support the package scripts.
388 + add Debian and RPM package scripts for test-builds.
389 + several improvements to configure script:
390 + quote params of ifelse()
391 + change obsolete ${name-value} to standard ${name:-value}
392 + use new macros CF_ADD_LIB/CF_ADD_LIBS to enforce consistency.
393 + AM_GNU_GETTEXT, drop $MKINSTALLDIRS, use "mkdir -p" consistently.
394 + CF_ADD_SUBDIR_PATH, workaround - if $prefix was not mkdir'd yet, no
395 directories were added.
396 + CF_BUNDLED_INTL, add --with-textdomain option, to use with lynx-dev
398 + CF_FIND_LINKAGE, simplify save/restore of $LIBS
399 + CF_GCC_WARNINGS, fix for Mac OS X (compiler makes conftest.dSYM
401 + CF_HEADER_PATH, don't search for variations of everything in the
403 + CF_WITH_CURSES_DIR, move the calls to CF_ADD_INCDIR and
404 CF_ADD_LIBDIR for the curses-directory here, from
405 CF_NCURSES_CPPFLAGS and CF_NCURSES_LDFLAGS, so it will work even
406 with the default checking, e.g., no --with-ncurses, etc.
407 + update config.guess, config.sub
410 + several improvements to configure script:
411 + modify CF_CURSES_TERM_H to handle cases such as cygwin where
412 packager has installed curses.h and term.h in different
413 directories, e.g., to wedge in a termcap library.
414 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, adding special case for OpenSolaris
415 + modify CF_MAKE_TAGS to add check for exctags and exetags, prefer to
416 ctags and etags to work around pkgsrc (NetBSD) renaming.
417 + correct CF_FIND_LINKAGE, setting cache variable for library_file in
418 the special case where no directory search is made.
419 + improve CF_GCC_VERSION, suppress stderr for c89 alias of gcc.
420 + improve CF_GCC_WARNINGS, moving -W and -Wall into the list to
421 check, since c89 alias for gcc complains about these options.
422 + modify CF_HEADER_PATH, to not search for variations of everything
423 in the current include-path
424 + use "mkdir -p", remove mkdirs.sh
425 + use CF_CURSES_HEADER to fill in possible subdirectory used for
426 ncurses header filename.
427 + modify CF_XOPEN_CURSES to work around current ncurse header loss of
428 predefinition of _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
429 + add "--disable-rpath-hack" option, along with scripting to add
430 rpath option to libraries found in unusual places.
431 + modify pause widget to autosize like gauge, and to omit the area for
432 buttons when none are displayed.
433 + fix an infinite loop in dlg_button_layout() if there are no buttons
434 to display (Debian #579390).
435 + add makefile rules for generating html, etc., documentation from
437 > patches by Samuel MartÃn Moro
438 + reset errors in tailbox before reading new character.
439 + modify dlg_draw_scrollbar(), omitting hiding percentages in boxes
440 when no arrows or scrollbar are needed.
441 + correct value of row for scrollbars in formbox.
443 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
446 + split up binding tables in inputbox and similar widgets to avoid
447 conflict between cursor-key use for input-string versus navigation
448 (report by slakmagik).
449 + if strftime() is available, support --time-format option for timebox
451 + if strftime() is available, support --date-format option for calendar
452 widget (request by Walter Harms).
453 + build-fixes for linking to intl library in /usr/local
454 + add --scrollbar option, use in most widgets to show a scrollbar on
455 the right margin of the data. That is cosmetic, does not respond to
457 + reuse functions from msgbox to allow prompt for yesno box to be
458 scrolled in a too-small window.
459 + correct mapping of button-codes with --nook option (report by Lebedev
461 + cleanup sample scripts using new utility scripts setup-* and report-*,
462 and allow command-line parameters to be added, for ad hoc testing.
463 + correct change to tailbox widget from 2009/02/22 using
464 dlg_button_layout(), which broke that widget.
465 + document some of the portability caveats.
466 + modify gauge widget to service callbacks (prompted by patch and
467 comments by Frank Sorenson).
468 + modify editbox to allow its input buffer to be larger than MAX_LEN
469 unless bounded by the --max-input option, and add limit-checks for
470 the buffer (report by slakmagik).
471 + improve manpage description of --checklist (report by Isaac Good).
472 + several improvements to configure script macros: CF_ADD_CFLAGS
473 CF_CURSES_FUNCS CF_DISABLE_ECHO CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES CF_MATH_LIB
474 CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE CF_REMOVE_DEFINE CF_WITH_LIBTOOL CF_XOPEN_SOURCE
475 + add is.po, lv.po, sw.po from
476 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
477 + update de.po, id.po, pl.po, pt_BR.po, vi.po from
478 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
481 + do not display top-arrows for scrolling if they would overwrite the
482 title (report by slakmagik)
483 + consistently use dlg_button_layout() when autosizing widgets (report
485 + add "-" and "+" bindings to timebox widget.
486 + add "-" and "+" bindings to calendar widget (OpenSolaris #6739031).
487 + review/fix other widgets to ensure that they exit on error, e.g.,
489 + modify check in dlg_getc() to treat closure of either stdin or stdout
490 as an error, rather than both. This is more stringent than the check
492 + modify dlg_result_key() to map curses ERR to dialog's error exit
493 (adapted from patch by Domagoj Pensa).
494 + updated several configure script macros:
495 + consistently append, rather then prepend, to $CFLAGS
496 + add cases for AIX 6, mint, and dragonfly to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE
497 + use $PATH_SEPARATOR rather than $PATHSEP
498 + improve CF_FIND_LINKAGE, use in checks for more libraries, e.g.,
499 libutf8 and libiconv.
500 + update da.po, ru.po from
501 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
502 + update config.guess, config.sub
505 + amend changes to quoting; by default, the checklist widget quotes its
506 output except when --separate-output is used (Debian #495600).
508 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
511 + add pointer-check when closing piped input (cf: 2007/03/25)
512 + use here-documents rather than echo, when passing backslashes in
513 strings, to accommodate the Debian shell "dash" (Debian #489563).
514 + recode several ".po" files to UTF-8 for consistency.
515 + change --separator to be an alias for --output-separator, for
516 compatibility with Xdialog.
517 + add --output-separator option to allow scripts to change the output
518 separator from a newline (for --separate-output) or a space. This
519 applies to other widgets such as forms and editboxes which normally
521 + add --column-separator option, to tell where column-aligned data for
522 radio/checkboxes or menus should be split into columns (request by
524 + add id.po, ku.po, lt.po, nb.po and update ca.po, fr.po, gl.po, ja.po,
526 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
527 + add "--quoted" option, to quote values returned by formbox, etc.
528 + change names of EX/ES macros in dialog.1 to work around name-
529 pollution caused by changes in Debian #470729.
532 + modify dlg_mouse_wgetch() to loop only on errors that it detects,
533 rather than on errors forwarded from dlg_getc(), in case those are
534 due to a disconnected terminal (report by Anatoli Sakhnik).
535 + allow "default" color in dialogrc file (request by Dashing).
536 + fix an indexing error in formbox (Debian #469190, report by Dmitry
537 Gomerman, patch by Vladimir Mezentsev).
538 + add bindings for CTL/N, CTL/P to checklist, fselect and menubox
539 widgets (prompted by discussion with John Gatewood Ham).
540 + add be@latin.po, th.po and update zh_TW.po from
541 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
542 > patches by Peter Astrand:
543 + modify dlg_auto_sizefile() to ensure the computed height and width
544 do not extend beyond the screen size.
545 + use unctrl() to make inputstr.c work with Solaris curses.
546 > patches by Yura Kalinichenko:
547 + extend pause widget to use ok/cancel buttons (the former giving the
548 same result as a timeout), rather than an exit-button.
549 + fix initialization parameter of inputbox for multibyte characters.
552 + improve layout of checklist.c, menubox.c, ensuring that the list fits
553 within the available space (report by Gordon Schumacher).
554 + undo removal of redundant chunk from checklist.c in 2007/02/27,
555 since some scripts depend on this (Debian #443077).
557 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
560 + correct cursor position in editbox after deleting past left margin
561 (report by Joe McDonagh).
562 + add "--no-ok" option (patch by Klaus Knopper).
563 + modify "--file" option to allow it to read from sources other than
564 a regular file (patch by Pieter van Beek).
565 + improved hi.po (Hindi) (from Klaus Knopper).
566 + fix masking of attributes in dlg_draw_shadow() which lost
567 line-drawing bit (report by David Everly).
568 + fix editbox widget to handle zero-length files (report by Joe
570 + update "po" files eu.po ga.po it.po ms.po sv.po vi.po wa.po zh_CN.po
572 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
575 + revise the resizable shadows so textbox's search dialog has text
576 visible in the shadow again.
577 + improve the prefixing of autoconf-related symbols in the installed
578 header files, taking into account symbols which are not mentioned in
580 + add a check when ERR returned from wgetch() to ensure that the
581 input/output streams are still valid. If that happens, force
582 ESC to be returned, quitting dialog (report by Reiner Huober).
583 + add extern "C" declarations to dlg_keys.h so the corresponding
584 function declarations are exported to C++ as C symbols.
585 + update config.guess, config.sub
588 + fix a memory leak in editbox.c
589 + revise change from 2007/02/27 which moved the logic for trimming
590 option text out of the loop because that moved it before
591 initialization of the "--trim" option. Put it back in the loop, but
592 limit the tokens which are trimmed to cover only those for the
593 current widget. Also ensure that all tokens for a widget are
594 trimmed, rather than only the first, which is usually text (report by
596 + add _FILE_OFFSET_BITS definition in CF_LARGEFILE configure macro.
599 + revise changes needed to make textbox's searchbox handle ncurses
600 resizing events, e.g., by handling the ERR in that code rather than
601 in dlg_getc() (Debian #423732).
604 + supply a repaint_text() call in tailbox.c which was bypassed because
605 dlg_getc() now retries on ERR (Debian #423732, cf: 2007/02/27).
606 + modify dlg_getc() to fix regression in 2007/02/27 for use of
607 timeouts, broken by fixes to allow resizing of textbox (patch by
608 Arnaud Fontaine, Debian #418905).
609 + modify dlg_getc() to fix regression in use of TAB for traversal of
610 tailboxbg widgets due to changes for user-definable key bindings
611 (Debian #418917, cf: 2005/12/07).
614 + add case in dlg_getc() to handle tab for traversing between widgets
615 as in the samples/tailboxbg1 script. Normally the key binding
616 overrides, except for the special case where multiple widgets are
618 + add configure --with-libtool-opts, which passes its value to the
619 library creation and linkage passes, e.g.,
620 --with-libtool-opts=-static
621 to force the result to be static libraries (prompted by a related
622 request by Santiago Vila).
623 > several fixes based on Coverity scan:
624 + fix memory leak in timebox, calendar widgets if the widget cannot
626 + fix memory leak in dlg_key.c if a user binding's storage cannot
628 + fix improperly delinked entry in dlg_del_window().
631 + improve mkdirs.sh to ignore error from mkdir if the target directory
632 happens to already exist (suggested by Harald van Dijk).
633 + amend documentation for --gauge to reflect longstanding quirk which
634 allows it to read percentage from the first line after an "XXX"
636 + fix makefile dependency so "configure && make install-lib" works.
637 + fix resizing of msgbox; the message was not repainted (Debian
638 #415022, patch by Brian Rolfe).
639 + fix typo in makefile LIB_OBJECT symbol from 2007/02/27 changes.
640 + improve CF_MBSTATE_T by including stdio.h, needed on Tru64 to make
641 the test-compile work.
642 + change makefile to install dialog.3 as part of install-lib rather
643 than install-man (report by Thomas Klausner).
644 + use $(INSTALL_SCRIPT) for installing dialog-config (report by
647 2007/02/27 - release 1.1
648 + mark as "dialog 1.1"
649 + add dialog-config script, which provides applications with compile-
650 and link-information for using the dialog library.
651 + move calls to dlg_trim_string() out of loop in dialog.c, so each
652 string is trimmed once (report by Ivanov Makcim).
653 + modify textbox.c to allow resizing while the search box is presented.
654 This relies on bug-fix in ncurses 5.6 20070224.
655 + use dgettext() rather than gettext() to allow libdialog to use the
656 messages installed for dialog (patch by Vajna Miklos).
657 + modify inputbox to position the cursor initially at the end of any
658 initial-text (request by Klaus Knopper).
659 + add configure --with-valgrind for testing.
660 + add --trace option, for debugging.
661 + add --ascii-lines and --no-lines options to control the way the
662 line-drawing characters are rendered (request by Klaus Knopper).
663 + add --keep-tite option, to override suppression of smcup/rmcup
664 (termcap ti/te) strings which would switch to xterm's alternate
665 screen (Debian #380665).
666 + modify fselect/dselect to use space-character as a completion
667 operator like tab in shells (patch by Yoram Bar Haim).
668 + remove a redundant chunk from checklist.c which reported status a
669 second time if the help-button was pressed but no item-help option
670 was in effect (Andre C Barros).
671 + fix return-status from "dialog --pause" (Debian #409254).
672 + add --mixedform and --mixedgauge dialogs based on patch from
674 + add some notes on compatibility to the manpage.
675 + add editbox dialog (compatible with Xdialog, Debian #368478).
676 + add dselect dialog (compatible with Xdialog).
677 + remove an incorrect initialization of .text_flen from 2005/12/07
678 changes, which made all fields in a form editable (Debian #404045).
679 + report error and exit if a filename given for the --file option
680 cannot be opened (report by "Dog Walker").
681 + make --program-prefix, etc., work in configure script, e.g., to make
682 program install as "cdialog". This does not alter the library name.
683 + add install-bin, install-man (and uninstall) rules to makefile.
684 + updates for configure script macros (originally vile, lynx, xterm):
685 AM_PATH_PROG_WITH_TEST, AM_WITH_NLS, CF_CURSES_CPPFLAGS,
686 CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_INCLUDE_DIRS, CF_LARGEFILE, CF_MAKEFLAGS,
687 CF_PATH_SYNTAX, CF_SUBDIR_PATH, CF_SUBST, CF_WITH_DBMALLOC,
688 CF_WITH_DMALLOC, CF_WITH_LIBTOOL and CF_XOPEN_SOURCE.
689 + update config.guess, config.sub
690 > adapted fixes from SuSE package (Werner Fink):
691 + add some limit-checks in dlg_draw_shadow().
692 + make shadows resizable, using new dlg_move_window() in msgbox.c
694 + add dialog_state.input, use this in end_dialog() to decide whether
695 to close pipe inputs and call _exit(), or simply call exit().
696 + modify dlg_ctl_size() to check if the reason for failure is because
697 shadows were used; retry in that case without shadows.
698 + add signal catcher for SIGSEGV.
701 + fix logic in split-out dlg_menu() to separate inputmenu and menu
702 handling (report by Auke Kok).
705 + fix fselect.c to compile properly with Intel compiler and largefile
707 + improve configure script checks for curses headers to work around
708 breakage in some packages, e.g., cygwin.
709 + amend correction to menubox, fixes normal menus (Debian #349969).
712 + completed dialog.3 manpage
713 + modify configure script option --with-gauge to cover all flavors of
714 the gauge (gauge, pause, progressbox).
715 + add progressbox widget, a hybrid of gauge and tailbox (Reznic Valery).
716 + fix a comparison in checklist.c to avoid unneeded arrows when the
717 list happens to fit in the window (patch by Peter Postma).
718 + correct wrapping computation in print_line() from 2005/11/07 changes
719 (report by Barry Kauler).
720 + update sv.po (comments only).
721 http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/maint/dialog/
722 + correct logic that passes the callback for menubox to do inputmenu
723 operations from 2005/12/7 changes (report by Reznic Valery).
726 + add a null-pointer check in dlg_register_buttons(), needed for the
727 tailboxbg (Debian #345524).
728 + fix a few memory leaks reported by valgrind.
731 + correct return-values of new functions dlg_default_listitem() and
732 dlg_default_formitem() (Debian #344002).
733 + add Swedish translation (Debian #343303, by Daniel Nylander)
734 + begin function-summaries in dialog.3
735 + update config.guess, config.sub
738 + change license to LGPL.
739 + change naming convention in dlg_colors.h to make it easier to read,
740 and incidentally remove the last chunk of code preventing relicense.
741 + add --passwordform (request by Reznic Valery).
742 + modify pause.c, msgbox.c to work with --help-button.
743 + modify formbox.c, inputbox.c, textbox.c, yesno.c to work with extra
744 button (adapted from Reznic Valery patch).
745 + modify dlg_exit_label(), dlg_yes_labels() and dlg_ok_label() to allow
746 help-button (prompted by Reznic Valery patch).
747 + add zh_CN.po file from
748 http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/maint/dialog/
749 + provide alternate interfaces for dialog_checklist(), dialog_menu()
750 and dialog_form(): dlg_checklist(), dlg_menu() and dlg_form()
751 (discussion with Michael Gebetsroither).
752 + add/use dlg_result_key() to allow binding function keys to the
754 + implement user-definable key bindings in the rc-file.
755 + modify inline cases for KEY_xxx values to use binding tables in new
757 + add several DIALOG_STATE items to the rc file: aspect,
758 separate_widget, tab_len and visit_links
759 + add a tab-adjustment to dlg_print_text() to improve solution from
760 2005/10/30, e.g., in the samples/form* scripts.
761 + fix an off-by-one which made mouse-selection not work for menu items
762 past the first page (GenToo #112024, patch by Harald van Dijk).
765 + extend dlg_add_result() to allow caller to pass a null pointer
766 for dialog_vars.input_result (Debian #336986).
767 + correct length used for text portion of radio/checkboxes (report by
769 + modify msgbox, textbox and center_label() to work properly for
770 LANG=bg_BG.utf8 examples by Valentin Stoykov.
771 + modify use of freopen() to work with opaque FILE type on DragonFly
772 (report by Jeremy C Reed).
773 + modify print_line() to compute columns, use that for the call to
774 dlg_print_line(). Fix a few places where strlen() was used instead
775 of dlg_count_columns() (reports by Valentin Stoykov).
778 + reviewed changes since beginning development in 1999, decided that
779 there are no appreciable portions of original code remaining.
780 Marked sources to correspond.
781 + improve cache performance for inputstr.c using tsearch() rather than
782 a linked-list search (Debian #294853).
783 + remove a special case for darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
784 + add ms.po file from
785 http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/maint/dialog/
786 + remove an assignment that caused the cursor to appear initially on a
787 form field rather than button (Debian #333506).
788 + modify buttons.c to count columns rather than bytes, fixing case
789 where buttons were laid out incorrectly (report by Valentin Stoykov).
790 + change dlg_print_text() to count columns rather than bytes, fixing
791 case where fewer columns were displayed in menu than expected
792 (report by Valentin Stoykov).
795 + improve fix for dlg_does_output(), eliminating redundant leading
797 + fill background color for item-help text (report by Peter Postma).
798 + correct interaction between --separate-output and --output-separator
799 broken in 2005/09/11 fix for Debian #326918 (Debian #331440).
800 + update config.guess, config.sub
803 + undo doubled adjustment for left/right margins when wrapping text
804 for msgbox, gauge and pause (report by Xyba).
805 + correct position of scrolled text in formbox broken by 2004/12/19
806 changes (report by Konrad Jelen).
807 + call dlg_does_output() from dlg_add_result(), ensuring that
808 separators are used when combining widgets such as formbox (report by
810 + fix marker in textbox.c to make it disappear at the top of the file
811 (report by Patrick J. Volkerding).
812 + fix marker shown in arrows.c for checklists, etc., which was "(+)"
813 where it should have been "(-)" (report/patch by Patrick J.
815 + fix --input-fd (changes in glibc since 2003 made dialog hang on exit
816 due to the way dialog updated stdin).
817 + restore default value (a tab) for --separator or --separate-widget
818 lost in 2003/11/26 changes (Debian #326918).
819 + make several widgets handle SIGWINCH (calendar, checklist, formbox,
820 fselect, inputbox, menubox, pause, tailbox, textbox, timebox). Only
821 msgbox and yesno had been done before. Note that some still have
822 fixed geometry requirements, so they cannot be shrunk below a given
823 threshold. Also, these changes do not address traversal, e.g., for
825 + make gauge widget handle SIGWINCH with ncurses (Debian #305705).
826 + add configure option to control whether largefile support is
827 compiled-in (Debian #298882).
828 + update eu.po (Debian #312622, patch by Piarres Egana).
829 + add/update po files from
830 http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/maint/dialog/
831 fi.po, rw.po, sr.po, tr.po, zh_TW.po
832 + fixes for configure script:
833 + improve script for determining gcc version
834 + improve checks for Intel compiler and related warning options
835 + improve checks for defining _XOPEN_SOURCE (or alternatives) and
837 + update config.guess, config.sub
840 + add/update po files from
841 http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/maint/dialog/
843 + revert last change for da.po; it was from an older version (report by
844 Morten Brix Pedersen).
847 + modify makefile.in so --disable-echo applies to libtool builds.
848 + corrected malloc size used for editable fields in formbox widget to
849 match the function which updates the corresponding buffer.
850 + modify formbox widget's use of flen to allow negative values to be
851 used to limit the length of the displayed field.
852 + improve description in manpage of output from formbox widget
854 + modify formbox widget to allow fields with flen==0 to display
856 + improved configure macros CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE and CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, to
857 avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
858 + fix a typo in inputmenu-stdout found via "sh -n" (report by Steve
860 + add/update po files from
861 http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/maint/dialog/
862 ca.po, da.po, hu.po, nl.po, rm.po, ro.po, vi.po
865 + add --args option to help with debugging scripts.
866 + adapted some new po files from Debian package for whiptail: ar.po,
867 bg.po, gl.po, hi.po, hr.po, mg.po, mk.po, ro.po, sq.po and zh_TW.po
868 + update da.po (Morten Brix Pedersen).
869 + add configure check for Intel 8.0 compiler, to set appropriate
871 + update config.guess, config.sub
874 + correct a typo in 2004/12/19 changes which caused width of multibyte
875 characters to be incorrectly computed in some locales.
876 + modify --version and --help options to write consistently to the
877 standard output (report by Santiago Vila).
878 + modify tailboxbg by resetting tty modes at the point where it forks a
879 process to update the screen, rather than waiting until that process
880 exits. This improves user feedback by making it apparent that dialog
881 is no longer processing input after that point (Redhat #142538).
882 + minor updates to some .po files using Babel Fish, comparing with lynx.
883 + update es.po (Santiago Vila).
884 + work around bug in NetBSD 1.6 curses which seems to be confused by
885 reusing color pairs with different video attributes. The problem
886 does not appear in NetBSD 2.0 curses (but its headers do not provide
887 version info, so color-caching is not available for that
889 + modify pause and gauge widgets to ensure that reverse-video progress
890 bar is visible when the background is reversed, e.g., using the
891 default non-color attributes.
892 + use chtype rather than attr_t, to build with old Solaris curses,
893 used in save/restore operation from 2004/09/20.
896 + add pause-widget (patch by Yura Kalinichenko).
897 + modify exit-code returned on selecting the "Help"-button when the
898 --item-help option is given. Previously this returned the same code
899 as "OK", since it combines output for "OK" with the help status. It
900 now returns the help-code, but this can be overridden by setting the
901 environment variable $DIALOG_ITEM_HELP (reports by Erika Pacholleck
902 and Sebastian Muesch).
903 + modify formbox widget so input-length is not limited to field-length
904 (report by David Liebermann).
905 + localize the label on the search box for textbox widget (report by
907 + correct usage message detail for fselect, which listed an extra
908 parameter (Debian #284008).
909 + add include for <sys/select.h> in ui_getc.c to build with QNX 4.25
910 using Watcom 10.6 (patch by Len Meakin).
911 + modify behavior when no locale (or POSIX locale) is set to allow
912 legacy interpretation of Latin-1 character set (Debian #284795).
915 + correct computation of column width for menubox/checkbox tags, for
916 multicolumn characters, e.g., the menubox-utf8 example.
917 + correct calls to wbkgdset(), which set the background attribute but
918 not the corresponding character (ncurses uses blank if none is given).
919 + improve configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE and _POSIX_C_SOURCE.
920 + improved limit-computation in show_message() to allow for scrolling
922 + adjust scrolling logic in msgbox to account for the one-line offset
923 used by the logic which wraps text in a box, thus avoiding leaving
924 an extra blank line (report by Maxim Sobolev).
927 + add samples/whiptail.rc
928 + add samples/dialog.py (noting that a later version of this exists
929 as pythondialog, but this is relatively self-contained). Modified
930 the script to accept the $DIALOG environment variable like the other
931 sample scripts, to specify the path of the program to use.
932 + modify the install rule for header-files so the autoconf names in
933 dlg_config.h (and corresponding usage in dialog.h, etc), are altered
934 from "HAVE_xxx" to "DLG_HAVE_xxx", etc.
935 + add a check for getenv("HOME") in rc.c
936 + add a call to end_dialog() in signal_handler for tailboxbg (from
937 patch by Werner Fink).
938 + correct initialization in checklist and radiobox for --default-item,
940 + modify --visit-items option so that it puts the cursor initially on
941 the list (in menubox, checklist and radiobox), accepts abbreviations
942 for the buttons when the cursor is on the button-row, and otherwise
943 (when --visit-items is given) abbreviations apply only to the list
944 (report by Erika Pacholleck).
945 + modify a few widgets (inputbox, textbox, yesno) to beep on unexpected
947 + modify some msgbox widget to accept abbreviations of its button
948 label, for consistency with other widgets (request by Erika
950 + corrected logic of dlg_char_to_button(), making it check only the
951 first uppercase letter in each button label rather than all uppercase
952 letters (report by Erika Pacholleck, cf: 2003/09/10).
953 + improved description of --clear and --keep-window options (adapted
954 from Erika Pacholleck).
955 + move discussion of --beep and --beep-signal options to Obsolete
956 Options section of manpage, remove these from the help-message
957 (report by Erika Pacholleck).
958 + bracket extern's in dialog.h with C++ extern "C" declaration, in case
959 the library is used from a C++ application.
960 + modify inputmenu examples to allow ESC to cancel the script.
961 + modify inputmenu widget to cancel edit on a TAB or ESC.
962 + modify inputmenu widget to use the same color scheme for the editable
963 text as the inputbox widget.
964 + modify samples/killall to work around differences in "cut" versions.
965 + use the color-caching from the \Z logic when loading the ".rc" file,
966 thereby reducing the number of color pairs required, and making it
967 less likely that deriving color pairs for drawing arrows on a given
968 background will run out of colors.
969 + save/restore window attributes in dlg_draw_arrows() and similar
970 functions, to allow widgets to draw arrows using the widget's
971 background rather than a common/fixed value (request by Erika
973 + modify textbox widget so the down-arrow will be hidden when at the
974 end of the file. (Modifying the up-arrow to be hidden is harder -
975 will do this when implementing scrollbars).
976 + correct off-by-one in fselect.c which left down-arrows showing at
977 the bottom of directory- and file-lists (report by Erika Pacholleck).
978 + improve display of percentages by omitting blanks where lines should
980 + modify logic for \Z escapes to make those that set video attributes
981 not clear the colors (report by Erika Pacholleck).
982 + modify logic for \Z escapes to allow foreground and background
983 colors to be the same, provided that bold attribute is set.
984 Also improved the logic for choosing a background color when the
985 foreground and background are the same (report by Erika Pacholleck).
986 + updated configure script macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, ensuring that the
987 _POSIX_C_SOURCE value is defined with a specific value (bug report
988 originally for lynx).
989 + fix configure script so that po/makefile is generated properly when
990 the configure --srcdir --enable-nls options are used.
991 + modify makefile.in to allow build/install from another directory,
992 i.e., using configure --srcdir (patch by Mike Castle).
993 + updated da.po (Debian #262587, Morten Brix Pedersen).
994 + modify some sample scripts to avoid using grave quotes nested within
995 double quotes with multiple file redirection, which does not work
996 with Solaris /bin/sh (report/analysis by Eric Haller).
997 + check for end of string immediately after a \Z escape to avoid
998 displaying the null terminator as a ^@ (report by Erika Pacholleck).
999 > patches by Erika Pacholleck:
1000 + modify calendar.c, fselect.c and timebox.c to use color scheme like
1001 other lists, using menubox colors rather than dialog colors.
1002 + correct charset for po/de.po, translate messages for "Help" and
1004 + omit parentheses around percentage in textbox.c
1005 + correct a few mismatched attributes, e.g., searchbox_attr in textbox.c,
1006 percentage in msgbox.c,
1010 + add test scripts to cover zero-width column case.
1011 + remove limit checks from checklist.c and menubox.c (cf: 2004/07/28),
1012 since some scripts use zero-width columns (Debian #262411 and report
1016 + modify msgbox.c to only reserve space for percentage shown as part
1017 of scrollable text for the msgbox widget. This makes infobox look
1018 as it did before 2004/06/06 changes (report by Vinesh Christopher)
1021 + remove redundant calls to wtimeout() from widgets since wtimeout()
1022 is properly called from ui_getc() where it is controlled by the
1023 --timeout option (bug report by juanjo).
1024 + add limit checks in checklist.c and menubox.c for very narrow screens
1025 (prompted by Steve Grubb patch).
1026 + initialize step in dlg_draw_buttons() in case it is used to draw
1027 a vertical list of buttons (prompted by Steve Grubb patch).
1028 > fixes by Steve Grubb:
1029 + correct logic in checklist.c (cf: 2003/11/26 changes) which turned
1030 quoting on unnecessarily for radiobox, breaking some old scripts.
1031 + increase size of array in dlg_ok_labels() to avoid overrun if extra
1032 and help buttons are used (cf: 2002/06/12 changes).
1033 + initialize fkey variable in menubox.c and textbox.c (cf: 2003/07/12).
1035 2004/07/21 - release 1.0
1036 + minor updates for configure script, i.e., CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
1037 CF_NCURSES_LIBS macros.
1038 + update config.guess, config.sub
1039 + add nl.po (Jacques Weewer).
1042 + add --visit-items option, which allows the user to tab to the item
1043 list in the checklist/radiobox and menubox widgets (request by
1045 + use wide-character line-drawing for up/down arrows when configured
1046 for wide-characters, gives better results with uxterm.
1047 + limit the number of times a --file option can be used, to prevent
1048 runaway recursion if a --file option is embedded within a file which
1050 + improve discussion of wrapping in the manpage (Debian #251937).
1051 + modify msgbox to allow it to scroll vertically like textbox (Debian
1052 #233276). This only works with ncurses.
1053 + implement $DIALOGVARS environment variable to apply common options to
1054 dialog_vars when it is reset before processing other common options.
1055 + add --single-quoted option to control whether output is double-quoted
1056 with '"' or single-quoted with single-quotes.
1057 + revert the default quoting behavior of checklists to use
1058 double-quotes (report by Mark K Post regarding Slackware scripts).
1059 + add eu.po (Basque) (Piarres Beobide Egaa).
1060 + add ca.po (Catalan) (Jordi Mallach).
1063 + add a call to flushinp() to init_dialog(), to discard any typeahead
1064 before dialog is invoked (Debian #244746).
1065 + correct dlg_match_char() function, which was broken during rewrite
1066 to support wide-characters (Debian #244777).
1067 + improved ru.po, uses UTF-8 charset (Leonid Kanter, Redhat #119200).
1068 + correct position of shadow drawn for dialogs, which appeared to work
1069 for most versions of curses (other than NetBSD) but would have been
1070 visible for certain color schemes (discussion with Julian Coleman).
1071 + correct loop-exit in longest_word() (Tomas Heredia, forwarded by
1073 + add cy.po (Welsh) (Dafydd Harries).
1076 + modify quoting of results to use single-quote rather than double
1077 quote, and ensure that results containing a quote or backslash
1078 character are escaped (report by Florent Rougon)
1079 + remove an incorrect comparison from checklist which made cursor
1080 stick on the last line, from 2004/03/01 changes.
1083 + add a dependency to install library if "--with-libtool" is used.
1084 + add manpage for the library.
1086 + modify formbox.c to support "--help-status" like menubox.
1087 + modify checklist.c to add item name to the "HELP" string when
1088 "--help-button" is used and no --item-help option is given (Debian
1089 #236841, report/patch by Jorg Sommer).
1090 + rename colors.h to dlg_colors.h, install that when the library is
1092 + add copyright notice to usage ("--help") message.
1093 + correct a missing bounds check for mouse-clicks in menubox (prompted
1095 + updated several configure-script macros: AM_GNU_GETTEXT,
1096 AM_WITH_NLS, CF_OUR_MESSAGES, CF_PROG_EXT, CF_WITH_DBMALLOC,
1097 CF_WITH_DMALLOC, CF_WITH_LIBTOOL, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE.
1100 + improve layout of calendar widget to allow for very long button
1101 labels (report by Santiago Vila).
1102 + correct logic for $DIALOG_TTY, broken in 2003/11/30. The environment
1103 variable must evaluate to a nonzero integer (report by Florent
1105 + document interaction between "--default-no" and "--no-cancel" options
1106 in manpage (Debian #223488).
1107 + change configure script to use autoconf 2.52+patch, to work around
1108 issues with Estonian locale (report by Seemant Kulleen).
1109 + add uk.po (Ukrainian) (Debian #232441).
1110 + make --default-item apply to checklist widget (Debian #225255).
1111 + correct a missing check for --item-help when --help-status was given
1112 for checklist (Debian #232921).
1113 + correct a missing bounds check for mouse-clicks in checklist (Debian
1115 + update config.guess, config.sub
1118 + correct infinite loop in yesno widget when "--defaultno" option is
1119 combined with "--no-cancel" (Debian #223077).
1122 + suppress double-quotes added for "--help-status" option if the
1123 string does not contain any special characters.
1126 + add samples/sourcemage.rc, for comparison with slackware.rc
1127 + add "--insecure" option (request by Sean Mathews (DrWho@f34r.com)).
1128 + make "--defaultno" option apply to widgets which use OK/Cancel
1129 buttons as well (Debian #209030).
1130 + improve documentation of exit-codes for each widget in the manpage
1132 + add option "--keep-window" to suppress repainting after completing
1133 each widget (request by Ingo van Lil).
1134 + add options "--yes-label" and "--no-label" to allow override of the
1135 "Yes" and "No" strings (request by Christoph Zwerschke).
1136 + add option "--help-status" to allow script to restore a checklist
1137 or radiolist after processing an item-help string (Debian #209031).
1138 + modify width-calculation for non-formatted text to ensure it is
1139 wide enough for the longest word in the text (patch by Andrew Gaul).
1140 + modify dlg_index_columns() to count a newline as a single cell rather
1141 than 2 for the normal curses case. This fixes an off-by-one for
1142 the text-justification, shown in screen 2 of msgbox1 sample script.
1143 + fix dlg_char_to_button(); 2003/09/10 changes made it incorrectly
1144 ignore case of the labels.
1145 + change calendar's use of arrow keys so they are (as before 2002/06/22)
1146 interpreted within the day-grid as movement within that grid (request
1148 + correct missing initialization of last_getc variable in dlg_getc()
1149 (report/analysis by Victor Wodecki).
1150 + modify main program to make
1151 dialog --no-shadow --print-maxsize
1152 work. Normally dialog prints the screen size after subtracting the
1153 area reserved for shadows, but some applications may need the actual
1154 screen size (Debian #213424).
1155 + several related changes (Debian #213425):
1156 + separate the examples using "--stdout" and "--output-fd" from the
1157 normal usage examples.
1158 + add "--input-fd" option, provide a sample of its use.
1159 + modify init_dialog() to use initscr() unless a "--stdout" option
1160 was used. Some scripts relied on the coincidence that redirecting
1161 standard output from dialog would "work". Before this change
1162 init_dialog() assumed that redirected standard output was
1163 synonymous with "--stdout" option (not the intended behavior).
1164 + modify command-line parsing to look for "--stdout" and "--stderr"
1165 options first, allowing only one.
1166 + add a check for an environment variable $DIALOG_TTY which provides
1167 the older behavior, i.e., try to open the terminal directly if
1168 stdout is redirected.
1169 + interface changes, to make libdialog simpler to use:
1170 + rename all of the internal functions to begin with "dlg_", but
1171 provide compatibility with older names if the application defines
1172 __DIALOG_OLD_NAMES__.
1173 + add dialog_version() function, and corresponding DIALOG_VERSION and
1174 DIALOG_PATCHDATE definitions to dlg_config.h
1175 + eliminate remaining global variables such as screen_initialized in
1176 favor of dialog_state and dialog_vars.
1177 + move some data such as dialog_vars.output to dialog_state, since
1178 they are normally not reset between widgets.
1179 + change interfaces of dialog_yesno() and dialog_checklist() to use
1180 dialog_state.defaultno and dialog_vars.separate_output, making it
1181 simpler and more consistent.
1182 + improve configure script and related definitions:
1183 + add "--with-libtool" option to provide shared library support by
1185 + rename generated "config.h" to "dlg_config.h", so it can be
1186 installed without naming conflict. Added "dlg_config.h" to
1188 + modify configure script and makefile to use EXEEXT and OBJEXT.
1189 + add "--enable-widec" option to control whether wide-curses features
1190 are compiled-in, rather than check for the existence of those in
1191 the curses library. This allows building with HPUX curses, which
1192 has abandoned legacy features while not quite supporting X/Open
1194 + add configure check for getbegx(), etc., which are not provided on
1196 + update config.guess, config.sub
1199 + update hu.po (Arpad Biro).
1200 + revert part of the 2003/08/18 change to "--stdout" option. Using
1201 stderr for screen output does not work well on several platforms
1202 since stdout's settings are affected (report by Kent Robotti).
1205 + modify tailbox to allow it to display files with arbitrarily long
1207 + fix an infinite loop in tailbox, broken when making interface changes
1208 to dlg_getc() (report by Ingo van Lil).
1209 + amend fix for "--and-widget" to not treat "---" as an option (report
1211 + updated es.po (Santiago Vila).
1214 + correct "RENAMED" result from inputmenu widget, which did not reset
1215 the result buffer, and did not account for scroll-offset (Debian
1217 + modify button, menu and checklist logic that matches a character to
1218 the beginning of a text field to support wide-characters (completes
1220 + modify configure script to not use "head -1".
1223 + modify searchbox popup in textbox widget so one can simply press
1224 return on an empty input to cancel the popup.
1225 + modify error reporting to avoid clearing screen if a problem is
1226 found in the ".rc" file.
1227 + add color/attribute combinations for form widget (based on patch by
1229 + combine rc-file colors, attribute- and color-tables to obtain a
1230 single table for color values, which requires less work to add new
1232 + modify fselect widget to make back-tab work again, since it was
1233 broken by the rewrite of dlg_edit_string().
1234 + modify howmany_tags() so it will quit searching when it finds any
1235 option, not only "--and-widget" (Debian #206636).
1236 + correct call to dlg_print_text() in print_line(), which did not
1237 account for hidden characters (report/patch by David Poole).
1238 + modify print_button() to display properly if locale defines ok/cancel
1239 or yes/no buttons that contain multibyte characters.
1242 + correct an indexing error when deleting from the end of a line using
1243 KEY_DC; it happened to work on Linux because malloc() clears memory
1245 + add '\r' to case statement where '\n' is translated to KEY_ENTER to
1246 work around defect in NetBSD curses.
1247 + modify configure check for getparyx(), etc., which are implemented
1248 by NetBSD curses as functions rather than macros.
1249 + correct configure check for term.h, which may be <ncursesw/term.h>
1250 if ncursesw development headers are installed, but not ncurses
1251 development headers. Or they may not coincide (Debian #206287).
1254 + modify checklist.c and menubox.c to display tags properly if they
1255 contain wide-characters.
1256 + better solution for initializing curses when "--stdout" option is
1257 used, e.g., use stderr for the output if it is a tty. Also correct
1258 the error handling, so dialog exits with an error if it cannot
1259 find a way to do output (Debian #205509).
1260 + modify sample scripts to use consistent definition of $DIALOG
1262 + add UTF-8 examples inputbox6-utf8, inputbox6-utf8 (from Tomohiro
1263 Kubota, Debian #195674).
1264 + modify print_line() to work with wide-characters, e.g., so it handles
1265 wrapping for double-width characters.
1266 + cache results from multibyte character indices, speeds up cursor
1268 + modify form widget to support scrolling and mouse-selection.
1269 + add form widget (based on patch by Reznic Valery).
1270 + correct mouse-handling for inputmenu widget.
1271 + corrections to menu.c: location of clearing operation, and height of
1272 rows in code for older ncurses versions (patch by Reznic Valery).
1273 + improve logic that compensates for xterm's alternate-screen by
1274 cancelling the rmcup/smcup strings after the rmcup has been issued.
1275 That ensures that dialog will not clear the screen on exit (report
1277 + modify initialization between widgets to retain the values for the
1278 --aspect, --separate-widget and --tab-len options.
1279 + add --separator as an alias for --separate-widget (compatible with
1281 + correct handling of Xdialog's --icon and --wmclass options, whose
1282 parameter was not ignored.
1283 + correct logic for --separate-widget so its string is written before
1284 each output, rather than only for --and-widget option (report by
1286 + improve limit-check in center_label() for buttons.c (report by Tor
1288 + correct layout of --menu widget, which reduced display width due to
1289 logic for --inputmenu being applied whether or not that configuration
1290 was used (reports by Javier Kohen, Dimitar Zhekov and MAL
1291 <mal@komcept.com>). Fixes Debian #201215.
1292 + modify gauge widget to support --begin option (Hans-Joachim Baader).
1293 + updated pl.po (Jaroslaw Swierczynski).
1294 + hide cursor while painting gauge.
1295 + add auto-sizing logic to gauge widget (reports by Javier Kohen and
1299 + rewrote inputstr.c, allowing it to enter and display wide-characters.
1300 Some nonprinting characters such as control/B can be edited as well.
1301 + modify timebox to allow user to type numbers into the fields.
1302 + change interfaces of dlg_getc(), mouse_wgetch(), etc., to add
1303 parameter that returns whether the result is really a function-key.
1304 This is needed to work with wide-character curses.
1305 + correct computation of week-number in calendar widget (report by
1307 + updated configure script macros:
1308 + suppress -Winline with gcc 3.3, since it is broken.
1309 + fix caching bug in CF_UTF8_LIB
1310 + improved script for CF_BUNDLED_INTL.
1311 + update config.guess, config.sub
1314 + add null-pointer checks to some malloc calls which were overlooked.
1315 + correct logic in dlg_add_result(), which did not copy content of
1316 non-allocated buffer to the first allocation (report by Daniel
1320 + correct an uninitialized value in dlg_add_result() (Debian #182683).
1323 + corrected print_line(), which subtracted the margin twice from the
1324 right-limit, making a string wrap unnecessarily (Debian #168823).
1325 + correct initial limit-check for arrows in checklist.c, which used
1326 the wrong variable, showing the bottom arrow when it should not
1328 + modify driver to always call show_result(), to simplify updates.
1329 + fix several memory leaks, important if dialog is run with a large
1330 number of widgets (report by albert.veli@telia.com forwarded by
1332 + check if the screen output is actually to the terminal before trying
1333 to suppress xterm's alternate screen mode (see 2000/01/18) (report by
1335 + use dialog_vars.input_result consistently to return the text which is
1336 printed after a widget completes. In many cases, dialog now
1337 allocates enough space to hold the text, rather than use a fixed
1338 buffer. The checklist widget was writing directly to the output to
1339 avoid limits of the fixed buffer.
1340 + modify dialog.c to also write dialog_vars.input_result if the
1341 Help-button was pressed (request by Amon Ott).
1342 + add hu.po (Arpad Biro).
1343 + update fr.po, pt.po, pt_BR.po to add strings for "Help" button (patch
1344 by Frederic L W Meunier).
1345 + fix off-by-one error in menu.c, checklist.c (reported by
1346 Tomasz Wasiak 2002/09/15 and others:
1347 Andrew Gaul 2002/11/12,
1348 Tobias C Rittweiler 2002/11/19,
1349 Arpad Biro 2003/01/21).
1350 + updated configure script, improving checks for ncurses in various
1351 locations, updated NLS script to match lynx. Added --with-curses-dir
1353 > Tobias C Rittweiler:
1354 + make ifdef in mousewget.c consistent with usage in dialog.h
1355 + use beep() rather than flash() in dlg_edit_string(), for consistency
1356 with the other functions.
1357 + change order of buttons so extra button falls between Ok/Cancel.
1358 + fix so "dialog --print-maxsize" exits from curses.
1359 + add --inputmenu option.
1362 + modify checklist.c and menubox.c to treat the extra button like the
1363 "Ok" button by making dialog print the chosen items (request by
1364 Tobias C Rittweiler).
1365 + add examples checklist6 and menubox6 to illustrate the --colors
1367 + implement -colors option, which allows one to highlight words in the
1368 titles and most text areas with color or video attributes (adapted
1369 from patch by Tobias C Rittweiler).
1370 + add examples inputbox4, inputbox5 to illustrate how to use the
1371 --output-fd option, and how to use dialog without any temporary
1373 + add --output-fd option (Debian #153984).
1374 + documented vi-style keys for calendar, textbox widgets in manpage.
1377 + improve mouse handling, e.g., for up/down scrolling in calendar,
1379 + add --extra-button and --extra-label options (adapted from patch
1380 by Tobias C Rittweiler).
1381 + correct displayed cursor position in inputbox when returning to the
1382 input area after traversing the buttons with tabs, etc.
1383 + add left/right arrows for traversal in calendar and timebox dialogs.
1384 + implement two new functions dlg_next_ok_buttonindex() and
1385 dlg_prev_ok_buttonindex(), using these to hide details about the
1386 traversal over buttons in several widgets.
1387 + modify checklist.c and menubox.c to verify if both --help-button and
1388 --item-help are specified before assuming that selecting the help
1389 button should cause the "HELP {item-help}" message to be printed
1390 (reported by Marcel Ritter).
1391 + modify init_dialog() to work around HP's broken tty driver (report by
1392 John Mudd). Specifically, the problem is that when opening /dev/tty
1393 directly (to support the --stdout option), the terminal does not
1394 change to raw mode. The workaround opens /dev/tty only as needed;
1395 the --stdout option does not work on HPUX but otherwise dialog works.
1396 + updated el.po (patch by kromJx <kromJx@crosswinds.net>).
1398 2002/05/19 - release 0.9b
1399 + add --no-collapse option to allow one to retain tabs and repeated
1400 blanks in a message box (request by Roberto Simoni).
1401 + use DLG_EXIT_ESC constant rather than -1's in several places. This
1402 has the effect of changing some exit-with-error cases to denote that
1403 the exit was because ESC was pressed (patch by Diego Alvarez,
1404 forward by Santiago Vila).
1405 + bump package version to 0.9b (with patch-date, as usual).
1406 + add --exit-label option (request by Roberto Simoni).
1407 + updated de.po to correct translation for "Cancel" (from Michael
1408 Piefel, Debian #146402).
1409 + use definitions from autoconf macro AC_HEADER_TIME to ensure that
1410 time() is properly prototyped.
1411 + update pl.po, adding translation for "Help" (patch by Jaroslaw
1412 Swierczynski <swiergot@hacking.pl>).
1413 + update COPYING file, to reflect address change of FSF (reported by
1415 + update some configuration script macros: CF_CHECK_CACHE,
1416 CF_CURSES_CPPFLAGS, CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_MAKEFLAGS.
1417 + correct misuse of "$with_XXX" variables in the configure script,
1418 which prevented configuration against curses library as opposed to
1420 + update config.guess, config.sub
1423 + modify geometry of samples/fselect scripts to allow them to run in
1424 a 24x80 screen (report/patch by Santiago Vila).
1425 + correct exit-code for menubox.c when Cancel is pressed. This was
1426 unintentionally altered when adding --help-button (reported by
1427 Patrick J Volkerding)
1430 + add --timeout option, which forces the program to exit with an error
1431 if no user response is given within the specified number of seconds
1432 (request by <andrew@argoncorp.com>).
1433 + modify calendar widget to allow day/month/year values to default to
1434 the current date (request by <Ron.Perrella@bellsouth.com>).
1435 + modify display of buttons in checklist.c and menubox.c to handle the
1436 case where the button label is empty (Debian #134388).
1437 + extended logic for ok/cancel/help to make this work with checklist
1439 + revert pt_BT.po, apply changes to pt.po (report by Frederic L W
1441 > several changes from Stanislav Ievlev:
1442 + add options --help-button and --help-label to make menubox display a
1443 third button which can be used to return an exit code causing the
1444 calling script to show extended help information.
1445 + use home/end keys in input string-editing, e.g., inputbox.
1446 + add option --max-input to limit length of string returned by inputbox
1447 and other widgets which allow the user to edit a string.
1450 + add --ok-label and --cancel-label options (request by Kyle Sallee).
1451 + correct usage message for --fselect option (reported by Patrick J
1453 + add samples/debian.rc, for comparison with slackware.rc
1454 + corrected samples/slackware.rc, which was just the compiled-in
1455 default values (patch by Patrick J Volkerding).
1456 + modify search rule for rc-file to add a global rc file /etc/dialogrc
1457 (patch by Patrick J Volkerding).
1458 + updated pt_BR.po with modified entries for fselect.c (Frederic L W
1460 + add pl.po (Swiergot <swiergot@l02.ids.czest.pl>).
1463 + modify command-line parsing to allow a "--" argument to act as an
1464 escape, so the next argument is not recognized as an option if it
1465 begins with "--". This is apparently one of popt's undocumented
1466 features, upon which some Debian scripts depend (Debian #116642).
1467 + add da.po (Morten Brix Pedersen <morten@wtf.dk>).
1468 + add an install-strip rule to makefile, changing the normal install
1469 rule to not strip the installed executable (based on discussion with
1471 + initialize my_output variable if user cannot open /dev/tty, e.g., if
1472 su'd to another user (patch by Richard Braakman (<dark@ssh.com>), Debian
1474 + add configure option --with-ncursesw, to allow configure/build with
1475 wide-character version of ncurses.
1478 + add option --ignore, to make dialog be ignore options that it does
1480 + add option --trim, to trim literal newlines and repeated spaces from
1481 text that will be displayed. Add samples/msgbox2, which is the
1482 same as msgbox1, but using --trim (cf: change for Debian #102942).
1483 + minor correction to attributes for buttons.c to use active_attr on
1484 the right-side of a button.
1485 + add a sample dialog rc-file slackware.rc based on diffs in hdasetup
1487 http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/slackware/slackware/source/a/hdsetup/
1488 (discussion with Frederic L W Meunier).
1489 + modify dialog.pl to avoid using a statically-named tempfile, allowing
1490 multiple processes to use this script (patch by James Ranson
1491 (<euclid80@yahoo.com>), Debian #110609).
1492 + correct fprintf() call in j_menu() function, i.e., "--menu" option,
1493 which did not guard against expanding '%' embedded in the parameters
1494 (Stavros Chatzistefanidis <sxatz@yahoo.com>).
1495 + add et.po (Ivar Smolin <okul@trenet.ee>).
1496 + update fr.po (Frederic L W Meunier).
1497 + modify to allow scripts to alter the exit codes, mainly to
1498 distinguish ESC and ERROR exits. This is done by setting a shell
1499 variable such as DIALOG_ESC to a new value (request by Petr Vandrovec
1500 (<vandrove@vc.cvut.cz>), Debian #99264)
1503 + use VPATH in makefile to support build with configure --srcdir, if
1504 the make program supports that. Note that samples/install/makefile
1505 is not generated, due to awkward limitation of autoconf script
1506 (reported by Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>).
1507 + add po/pt_BR.po (Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>).
1508 + correct sense of --enable/--disable shown in configure --help (report
1509 by Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>).
1510 + correct logic for --clear option, broken in 2000/07/02 (fixes Debian
1514 + porting fixes to work on AIX: flush output to work around bug in
1515 curses library, use ./killall in scripts to avoid conflict with
1516 AIX program by that name.
1517 + modify dlg_trim_string() to retain literal newlines if the string
1518 does not contain "\\n" strings, and to retain leading blanks on the
1519 resulting lines, for compatibility with older scripts (Debian
1521 + add charset specification to cs.po
1522 + change dates in CHANGES to consistent format, add el.po for Greek
1523 (patch by kromJx <kromJx@crosswinds.net>).
1524 + eliminate static globals (bss, data) from modules rc, tailbox,
1525 textbox using better parameter-passing convention, and const.
1526 + cleanup temporary files in a few of the sample scripts.
1527 + rewrote tailboxbg using select() rather than fork(), thereby
1528 eliminating lock-files. Only one process should be trying to display
1529 on the screen at any given time.
1530 + add error check to ensure that numeric parameters are really numbers.
1531 + correct off-by-one in error messages reporting too-few or too-many
1532 tokens for a given option (reported by George Mirchev).
1533 + fix typo in manpage, "textboxbg" where "tailboxbg" was meant
1534 (reported by George Mirchev <la@mail.techno-link.com>).
1535 + use DLG_EXIT_xxx symbols consistently for all exit codes.
1536 + updated es.po (patch by Santiago Vila).
1537 + updates for some configure script macros from lynx: CF_MAKEFLAGS,
1538 CF_NCURSES_VERSION, CF_PROG_EXT.
1539 + fixes to compile if <term.h> is included, e.g., when building with
1540 AIX curses (report by Suzi Dowson <Suzi.Dowson@capgemini.co.uk>).
1543 + updated dialog.pot
1544 + modify fselect.c to work with autosize, i.e., given height and width
1545 zero (report by Martin Povolny).
1546 + add a null-pointer check in justify_text(), needed by fselect.c
1547 + add several more options which dialog can safely ignore, from
1549 + refinements for configure macros checking for $CPPFLAGS, from lynx.
1550 + update config.guess, config.sub to match autoconf 2.50
1551 > Martin Povolny <martin@solnet.cz>:
1553 + use nl_langinfo() to customize names for day-of-week, and month
1556 > Vincent Stemen <dialog@AdvancedResearch.org>:
1557 Fixed dialog.c to not pass menu items through dlg_trim_string().
1558 Stripping extra spaces out of the menu items broke some of my
1559 scripts by altering the string that it compared to know which menu
1560 item was selected. There should be no need to do justification on
1561 the menu items, which are always one line, anyway.
1564 > Vincent Stemen <dialog@AdvancedResearch.org>:
1565 + rewrote the text justification code to be able to have preformatted
1566 text in the prompts with extra spaces like the older versions of
1567 dialog. If there are "\n" strings in the text, then extra spaces are
1568 preserved. Lines are always wrapped on word boundaries.
1569 + fixed --cr-wrap to break lines on '\n' (newline) characters and not
1570 add an extra line at the top and bottom of the text. It now works
1571 as the manual says it should.
1572 + it is no longer necessary to use "\n\" at the end of lines to escape
1573 the '\n' character. "\n" now works. However, the old way, "\n\"
1575 + the fixes involved the following changes:
1576 - rewrote dlg_trim_string() to recognize preformatted text (know
1577 when not to strip extra spaces) and to pay attention to --cr-wrap.
1578 - rewrote justify_text() which now calls a new function in util.c,
1579 print_line(), to print each line and end it on a word boundary.
1580 - modified real_auto_size() to call a new function
1581 auto_size_preformated() to calculate the box size for preformatted
1583 - removed skip_blanks() and skip_text() since they are not used by
1584 the new justify_text().
1585 - modified dialog.c to not call dlg_trim_string() on title strings
1586 so that titles retain their spaces.
1587 + modified the following demo files in the sample directory:
1589 changed all "\n\" strings to "\n" to demonstrate the extra
1590 backslash is no longer needed.
1592 removed all the "\n\" strings from the end of the lines to
1593 properly demonstrate --cr-wrap.
1595 this sample was using "--aspect 9 --cr-wrap". Rewrote it to
1596 properly demonstrate --aspect. 9 is already dialog's default
1597 aspect ratio. It now creates several dialogs in sequence,
1598 demonstrating aspect ratios of 9, 12 and 6 and properly
1599 demonstrates --cr-wrap.
1600 + made the following changes to the manual (dialog.1).
1601 - rewrote the description of --aspect to be more understandable.
1602 - rewrote the description of --cr-wrap to be more correct and more
1603 detailed. It did say, "Otherwise, the text for each dialog will
1604 display on a single line.", which is not correct. It wraps the
1605 text to fit in the box.
1607 + use logic from menubox dialog in checklist to handle autosizing when
1608 list height is given as zero (fixes problem reported by Eric Veltman
1609 <eveltman@baan.nl>).
1610 + modify checklist and menubox dialogs to check for too-wide data, and
1611 truncate one or both of the name and text fields to fit (also
1612 reported by Eric Veltman).
1613 + corrected a few items from Vincent's patch:
1614 - use C89-style comments rather than C++
1615 - restore logic in justify_text() which checks for win==0, needed to
1616 work with standard curses implementations other than ncurses.
1617 The first call on justify_text() passes a null pointer as a flag
1618 to indicate that checking should be done, but no screen updates.
1619 - avoid modifying the buffer in decode_percent(), otherwise a message
1620 containing a space or newline would be truncated at the whitespace.
1621 - modify dlg_button_x_step() and dlg_button_layout() slightly to
1622 work with altered print_autowrap(), etc.
1623 + fixes to build/work with SunOS 4.x 5lib curses
1626 + fix a memory leak in mouse_region().
1627 + simplify handling of optional parameters with new functions
1628 optional_str() and optional_num().
1629 + add calendar and timebox dialogs (compatible with Xdialog).
1630 + correct typo in fallback definition for getparyx, and remove void
1631 cast for mouse_open and mouse_close which prevented build with
1632 Sun's Solaris compiler.
1633 + rename --enable-lxdialog configure option to --enable-Xdialog
1634 + modify CF_NCURSES_CPPFLAGS macro to match more variations of ncurses
1636 + update config.guess, config.sub
1637 + modify some configure script macros to avoid problems with buggy
1638 autoconf 2.49c which breaks changequote().
1641 + small fix to revised real_auto_size() and justify_text() to avoid
1642 adding origin to box-width, which broke samples/wheel.
1643 + apply 1999/12/25 tempfile change to wheel and copismall samples.
1644 + add sample script for tailboxbg.
1645 + revised lock-file management to better ensure that locks are actually
1646 created by the tailbox subprocess(es).
1647 + correct hardcoded signal 15 in tailbox to SIGHUP to match
1648 documentation. Signal 15 is usually SIGTERM, which cannot be caught.
1649 + correct off-by-one comparison of return-value for arg_rest() which
1651 dialog --gauge test 10 50
1652 dump core because it expected a 4th parameter (fixes Debian #80641).
1653 + resync config.sub, config.guess from
1654 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/config/ (which finally have
1655 cases for OS/2 EMX), minor tweaks to related configure script macros.
1658 + restore treatment of predefined height/width in real_auto_size()
1659 which was lost in 2000/12/12 rewrite (report by Raphael Halimi
1660 <raphaelh@easynet.fr>).
1661 + updates for configure script macros AM_PATH_PROG_WITH_TEST,
1662 CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_LIB_PREFIX, CF_PROG_EXT for $PATHSEP and $CFLAGS
1666 + correct change for create_lock(), which resulted in an infinite loop
1667 (patch by Chris Butler, <chrisb@debian.org>).
1670 + rewrote print_autowrap() and real_auto_size() to share common code
1671 justify_text(), which now does text flow even when the string
1672 contains newlines (fixes Debian #77199).
1673 + improve create_lock() function using open() with O_EXCL rather than
1674 fopen() (patch by Matt Kraai (<kraai@debian.org>), Debian #78951).
1675 + correct description of --fselect in man page (patch by Tomas Pospisek
1676 (<tpo@spin.ch>), Debian #77200).
1677 + add --no-cancel as alias for --nocancel for compatibility with
1678 Xdialog (report by Luis E Limon <luisl@abriasoft.com>).
1681 + some lint fixes using lclint (mostly void-casts, but some
1682 sign-extension fixes e.g., for ctype.h macros, and loop in
1683 dlg_char_to_button()).
1684 + modified to build/run on OS/2 EMX with ncurses.
1685 + minor changes to po/*.po (trim trailing blanks, provide explicit
1686 translation for "OK"), to work with Solaris gettext.
1687 + modified to allow this to build with archaic version (1.8.6)
1688 of ncurses on FreeBSD 3.1 (does not run).
1689 + update config.guess, config.sub from subversions.gnu.org
1692 + use new function sub_window() to check success/failure of calls to
1693 subwin(), printing an error message if it fails (fixes Debian #74903).
1694 + use combination of isatty/ttyname to look for workable tty device
1695 on systems which have no /dev/tty, e.g., BeOS.
1698 + change exiterr() to use stdarg.h, make some messages easier to
1700 + add dialog_clear()
1701 + make samples/install/setup build.
1702 + implemented mouse support for buttons, e.g., in yesno dialog using
1703 ncurses (the gpm support no longer works, but is useful for reference)
1704 + add a configure check for chtype.
1705 + updates for configure script macros (CF_BUNDLED_INTL, CF_CURSES_LIBS,
1706 CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_GCC_WARNINGS, CF_INCLUDE_DIRS), and scripts
1707 config.guess, config.sub
1708 + cleanup of item-help change, integrate with checklist and radiobox.
1709 + add ja.po, from Hirofumi Takeda <takepin@turbolinux.co.jp>.
1710 > patch by Marco Mariani <marcom@sferacarta.com>
1711 + add --item-help option, which makes menubox data interpreted as
1712 3 columns rather than 2. The third column is displayed on the
1713 last line of the screen as a help/status message for the currently
1716 + change TAG_KEY_HL to FALSE, making unselected items in checklist
1717 easier to read on Linux console.
1720 + change real_auto_size() to allow it to be used for dialogs that have
1721 no prompt, e.g., fselect. Also, rather than requiring both height
1722 and width to be given as -1 for maximizing the dialog, allow either
1724 + increase minimum height needed for autosized yesno dialog.
1725 + add --version as an alias for --print-version.
1726 + fix for build on Solaris without NLS (cannot redefine 'gettext()').
1727 + add fselect dialog (compatible with Xdialog).
1728 + add --enable-lxdialog configure option.
1729 + use new configure macro CF_ARG_MSG_ENABLE to show progress with
1730 enable/disable switches.
1733 + implement --stdout and --stderr options as in Xdialog.
1734 + move logic that translates "\\n" into '\n' into main program to
1735 simplify logic that formats text.
1736 + make ifdef's for rc-file not specific to ncurses.
1737 + correct logic making percent parameter of gauge optional.
1740 + add alternate test-script for gauge, adapted from Xdialog.
1741 + modify gauge to make optional a percentage which was read at the
1742 beginning of the XXX-delimited message text, since clones of dialog
1743 are written to assume this is text. If the line is not a simple
1744 integer, dialog will treat it as text.
1745 + make the percent parameter of gauge optional, as in Xdialog.
1746 + undo one use of CharOf() in guage.c, an error.
1747 + fix configure macro AM_WITH_NLS to refrain from attempting to make a
1748 symbolic link into/libintl.h if we are not using the bundled intl
1749 directory from gettext (reported by Julian Coleman
1750 <J.D.Coleman@newcastle.ac.uk>).
1751 + add ru.po, from Michael Sobolev <mss@transas.com>
1752 + updates for config.guess, config.sub from tin.
1753 + updates for configure script macros: CF_MATH_LIB (improperly nested
1754 brackets/parenthesis) and CF_XOPEN_CURSES (make include of
1755 <*curses.h> depend on configure tests).
1758 + repaint screen when a control/L is pressed.
1759 + apply CharOf() macro to avoid sign-extension on calls to waddch(),
1760 fixes a problem with accented characters (reported by Santiago Vila).
1761 + add es.po, from Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>
1764 + modified to use gettext (configure option --enable-nls). This uses
1765 gettext 0.10.35, which must be previously installed. (It can also
1766 use an included intl library, but I consider that to be a waste of
1768 + remove code in checklist/radiobox, menubox that try to use
1769 abbreviations for the OK/Cancel buttons since those conflict with the
1770 check for abbreviations in list entries, which are more useful.
1771 + moved padding of button labels out of string literals, into the
1772 logic of dlg_draw_buttons().
1773 + resync/update with configure macros CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_FIND_LIBRARY,
1774 CF_HEADER_PATH, CF_LIBRARY_PATH and CF_NCURSES_LIBS, as well as
1775 mkdirs.sh and config.guess.
1778 + add --default-item option, for menubox to set the default selection
1779 (fixes Debian #49796).
1780 + add sample scripts for --nocancel and --fb options with inputbox.
1781 + modify inputbox* sample scripts to show application errors, if any.
1782 + add --nocancel option, and ignore --noitem, --fb, --fullbutton, to
1783 make this compatible with whiptail scripts. (whiptail does not
1784 handle many dialog scripts however).
1785 + modify checklist/radiobox to handle home, end, nextpage, prevpage
1786 keys, as well as make the abbreviation search work for the whole
1787 list, not only the current page.
1788 + treat KEY_LL the same as KEY_END in checklist and textbox.
1789 + add logic for KEY_BTAB.
1790 + use new function dlg_draw_buttons() to better manage the layout of
1791 yes/no/ok/cancel buttons.
1792 + another pass of cleanup of dialog.c, makes it use a single table for
1793 lookup of option names and help-message. Eliminated numerous
1794 adjustments to 'offset' variable.
1795 + on initialization, check if standard input is from a terminal. If
1796 not, open /dev/tty (fixes Debian #57771)
1799 + implement inline editing in textbox.c search dialog.
1800 + revise inputbox.c, allowing inline editing with arrow-keys. removed
1801 redundant logic in that module.
1802 + correct a typo that prevented rc-file configuration from building.
1803 + correct ifdef's to compile/run if the curses implementation does not
1807 + improve test-case for gauge.
1808 + change gauge.c to show progress in reverse-video, add a check for
1809 end-of-file in the loop for reading new messages.
1810 + use curses whline() function to simplify print_arrows() logic in
1811 checklist.c and menubox.c
1812 + use curses beep() function rather than hardcoded strings.
1813 + correct several compiler warnings for gcc -pedantic (mismatch of
1814 const, signed/unsigned).
1815 + modify exiterr() to avoid possible expansion of '%'.
1816 + change CF_MATH_LIB configure macro to allow specifying a particular
1817 test-function. For dialog, this should be sqrt(). The macro was
1818 originally written for ncurses, which needs sin(). However, that is
1819 a builtin function on the m68k port (reported by Roman Hodek
1820 <Roman.Hodek@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>, this fixes Debian #55553).
1823 + update manpage (Debian #25648).
1824 + modify configure test for math library to avoid using a constant
1825 parameter to the test function, lest gcc optimize the call away
1826 (fixes Debian #55553).
1827 + restructure help-message so actual problem is indicated. The original
1828 help-message is shown if no parameters are given, or if the --help
1829 option is specified alone.
1830 + suppress xterm's alternate screen mode by sending an exit_ca_mode
1831 after initscr if the terminal looks like xterm, e.g., has key_mouse
1832 defined, and has private-mode escapes in both enter_ca_mode and
1833 exit_ca_mode (fixes Debian #55181).
1834 + change yellow lettering on white to blue on white, since it offers
1835 better contrast (fixes Debian #51196).
1836 + use napms() rather than sleep().
1837 + some cleanup/simplification of main program. Indent'd dialog.c and
1839 + eliminate several places where repeated options are treated as
1840 an error, since they are really executed once anyway.
1843 + remove pre-autoconf Makefile
1844 + remove sleep's from a few of the sample scripts, which left users
1845 thinking that dialog was slow to complete an action.
1846 + rewrote infobox sample script, using dialog's --sleep option and
1847 a loop in the script.
1848 + change 'ch' variable in tailbox.c to an integer, because it is
1849 compared against EOF (fixes Debian #53157).
1850 + corrected mandir variable in makefile.in (reported by Santiago Vila).
1851 + small changes to sample scripts, from Debian: rename "guage" script
1852 to "gauge", change path to copy of GPL used in textbox.
1853 + add uninstall rule to makefile.in, fixed some dependencies so
1854 "make install" works without first doing "make all".
1857 + use more portable scheme for tempfile generation in samples.
1858 + add a configure script, prefer to not use the original Makefile
1859 because it works only with GNU make.
1860 + correct prototype of 'main()', which misused const.
1861 + modify guage.c to use fgets() rather than gets().
1862 + merge changes from Debian package maintainer
1863 Santiago Vila <sanvila@ctv.es>:
1866 + add a password dialog box (Debian #45964, patch by Joey Hess).
1867 + implement "--defaultno" option to specify if the default for
1868 the yes/no box is "No" (Debian #46076, patch by Joey Hess).
1870 + modify input.c to clear the input field to the right of the
1871 given string, to help with screen-refresh
1873 + check for list_height less than one in checklist.c (Debian
1876 + use function wscrl() in preference to scroll() in checklist.c
1877 and menubox.c (unclear: in ncurses, scroll() is a macro that
1879 + remove the "-I/usr/include/ncurses" option from Makefile
1880 since Debian does not install ncurses' header files into
1883 + simplify menubox.c using new functions print_arrows() and
1884 print_items(). add logic to handle KEY_NPAGE and KEY_PPAGE
1886 + modifications to provide sample scripts (Debian #26211):
1887 + change sample scripts to use Debian tempfile utility rather
1888 than putting files into /tmp.
1889 + change sample scripts to use 'dialog' from user's path
1890 rather than in the parent directory as in the build
1892 + use the system copy of GPL rather than that in the build
1893 directory as an example for the textbox script.
1896 + fix some gcc warnings about ambiguous use of "else"
1899 + cleaned up some of the redundant code with new functions:
1906 + modified msgbox.c and yesno.c to work with the KEY_RESIZE sigwinch
1907 handling in ncurses 4.2
1909 + corrected spelling of "gauge"
1911 The relevant portions of the Debian change log for the original version
1912 (dialog-0.9a-12) are abstracted here, omitting details of their packaging:
1916 + Replaced guage.c by the one in dialog 0.6z, which is known to work.
1917 Fixes Debian #18284: unstable dialog.
1921 + dialog.c: dialog_input_result printed with "%s" format. This was
1922 Debian #9913, fixed by Bill Mitchell, but the change was lost.
1923 + Pristine source, .depend is not removed in clean target. Instead, it
1924 is made zero length (otherwise it would not work *without* fakeroot).
1925 + Added '^U' support in input box (Debian #9915, patch by Joey Hess).
1926 + Wrote patch to fix core-dumping problem (Debian #13170). Sven Rudolph
1927 <sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de>: