1 -- $Id: CHANGES,v 1.419 2012/07/06 18:18:48 tom Exp $
2 -- Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
4 This version of dialog was originally from a Debian snapshot. I've done this
8 + modify samples/setup-tempfile to work with Tru64's shell.
9 + modify inputmenu sample scripts to make them more portable:
10 + use "id" rather than "$GROUPS", use sed to work with Solaris.
11 + use sed to split-up the rename results to work with HPUX.
12 + fix regression in msgbox (ArchLinux #30574)
15 + modify prgbox widget to work with --extra-button, etc.
16 + add case values to several widgets to allow for mouse-clicks with
17 "--extra-button" and "--help-button" additions.
18 + correct timebox widget's exit code for "--extra-button" when handing
20 + modify msgbox widget to honor "--extra-button".
21 + corrected processing of "--trace" option, which did not update the
22 index into command-line to point past its value.
23 + add a check in dialog program for valid characters used in option,
24 e.g., to generate an error if a script attempts to add option value
25 using "=" rather than with whitespace.
26 + add new command-line option --default-button and library function
27 dlg_default_button() to retrieve the value set by the option
28 to provide a way to set the default button directly rather than
29 by combining --nook, etc. (patch by Zoltan Kelemen).
30 + amend include of unctrl.h to apply only to the case where curses.h
31 is included, to avoid conflict of ncurses' unctrl.h with a system
32 implementation (report by Martin Roedlach)
33 + add limit-check to dlg_toupper() in non-wide curses mode to work
34 when non-character values such as arrow-key codes are passed to
35 it (patch by Zoltan Kelemen).
36 + override timeout value, e.g., as set via --timeout command-line
37 option in pause widget because that interferes with pause's behavior
38 (report by Jan Spitalnik).
39 + modify samples/inputmenu* to allow ":" in renamed text (report by
41 + modify double-quoting to make it more consistent, i.e., checklist
42 output is quoted only when needed. This fixes the case where
43 single-quotes were used whether or not needed, but also modifies
44 older checklist behavior for double-quoting which always added those
46 + correct exit-code used in inputmenu for "rename" button (Debian
47 #673041, forwarded from Ubuntu #333909, patch by Lebedev Vadim).
48 + update el.po and hr.po from
49 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
50 + use checkbashisms to clean up sample scripts.
53 + modify menubox.c to use the same improvement as in checklist.c
54 + improve auto width computation for checklist widget by using
55 dlg_calc_list_width as in the non-auto case (Edho Arief).
56 + eliminate some bashisms in the sample scripts (Pedro Giffuni).
57 + makefile fixes from FreeBSD ports (Li-Wen Hsu):
58 + make --with-package option of configure script work.
59 + get LIBTOOL_VERSION from configure script, needed by
60 ${LIBTOOL_VERSION} in LIBTOOL_CREATE (LIB_CREATE in configure and
62 + update cs.po and sr.po from
63 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
64 + updated configure script macros, improving CF_XOPEN_SOURCE among
68 + fix --analyze warnings for clang versions 2.8, 2.9.
69 + add configure check for lint program.
70 + add check in dlg_getc() in case its window is freed as a side effect
71 of removing callbacks.
72 + fix logic in freeing subwindows (report by xDog Walker).
73 + fix a regression in logic distinguishing between inputmenu and menu
74 widgets (report by xDog Walker).
75 + minor fixes to library manpage.
78 + modify header-sh.in to work around limit on sed script length on
80 + add a special case of parameter parsing for "--trace" to the
81 initialization done before calling init_dialog(), to allow users to
82 capture the initial state of the parameter list before any options
83 are processed and removed. This is only done if "--trace" is the
84 first option, otherwise it is handled in the common options as before
85 (report by xDog Walker).
86 + modify samples/testdata-8bit, discarding $1 from the parameter list
87 if it was used, so that the source'ing scripts can consistently use
88 "$@" to insert parameters before the widget, e.g., as an alternative
89 to using $DIALOGOPTS (report by xDog Walker).
90 + modify treatment of function pointers in menubox.c, make
91 dlg_renamed_menutext() and dlg_dummy_menutext() visible to library
92 users (request by xDog Walker).
93 + add dlg_count_real_columns(), use to modify centering for "--hline"
94 text to account for "\Z"s (report by xDog Walker).
95 + improve check in dlg_draw_arrows2() for conflict between the window
96 title and up-arrow marker to take into account that the given window
97 may not be the top-level window of the widget.
98 + change width of page up/down mouse areas in fselect panes to use the
99 full width of the panes rather than only the portion from the left
100 margin to the up/down arrow.
101 + add/use dlg_draw_box2() and dlg_draw_bottom_box2() to use the
103 + modify rc-file read/write to accept/generate color values that refer
104 to previously-processed items in the color table. This reduces the
105 number of distinct colors that must be specified to set up a color
107 + add color table entries for secondary borders, i.e., the ones that
108 are normally drawn with the dialog's text-colors (Debian #641168).
109 + modify fselect.c to scan the current directory if the input field
110 happens to be empty (Debian #640905).
111 + repeated the discussion of environment variables that can override
112 the exit-status values in the manpage's return-codes section
114 + add an example to the manpage showing how to override the form
115 widget's keys used for field/button traversal (Debian #642108).
116 + modify call to dlg_register_window() in formbox.c so that the editing
117 bindings are attached to the form sub-window rather than the
118 top-level dialog window. Also change the name by which the editing
119 bindings are bound for editbox.c, fselect.c and inputbox.c, so that
120 the editing and navigation bindings can be different.
121 + correct logic in dlg_lookup_key() so that it matches the widget name
122 before using a binding from .dialogrc, allowing the inner/outer
123 windows of form and other editing widgets to have different bindings.
124 + modify dlg_register_window() to call dlg_dump_window_keys() after
125 its updates, via the --trace output, to supplement the manpage
126 description of key bindings (Debian #642108).
127 + add DLGK_FORM_PREV and DLGK_FORM_NEXT key-bindings to form.c, to
128 allow binding a single key to traverse both form-fields and buttons
130 + modify dlg_parse_rc() to check for error return from
132 + add function dlg_dump_window_keys(), to help with debugging widgets.
133 + add CR, LF, TAB, FF and ESC to table of curses names to help make
134 key bindings more readable.
135 + update table of dialog key-names so that helpfile and trace are
137 + correct dlg_dump_keys(), which was showing only the first item in
138 the matched binding table.
139 + save/restore window current position in dlg_update_mixedgauge().
140 + pass return-code from pause_for_ok() from dlg_progressbox() when
141 pauseopt is set, rather than only DLG_OK.
142 + call setlocale() in init_dialog() rather than relying on on-demand
143 use within inputstr.c, since there are paths in textbox widget which
144 do not exercise the latter (report by xDog Walker).
145 + fix some places where checks for "\Z" were done without also checking
146 dialog_vars.colors (report by Moray Henderson).
147 + correct logic for DIALOGOPTS parsing so that the parse happens only
148 once unless memory leak checking is enabled (report by xDog Walker).
149 + remove an incorrect free() call in dlg_free_gauge() (report by xDog
151 + modify dlg_trace_win() to log wide-characters (report by xDog Walker).
152 + make traces shorter by skipping repeated ERR's, but showing the
153 number skipped (report by xDog Walker).
154 + improve description in manpage to distinguish program box and
155 progress box from tailboxes (adapted from email by xDog Walker).
156 + modify dlg_trace_win() so that it looks for the topmost window in a
157 dialog. Because subwindows share space with the top window, tracing
158 the latter shows the whole widget (report by xDog Walker).
159 + expand tracing so that each window is traced before soliciting input,
160 making the ^T feature to print a window on demand partly redundant
161 (suggested by xDog Walker).
162 + cosmetic change in dialog.h to avoid "*/*" strings from comments next
163 to "*" (report by xDog Walker).
164 + ensure result from dlg_align_columns() has trailing null on each
165 string. Analysis was hindered by libc6's continuance of libc5's
166 early-1990s misfeature of clearing the result from malloc, noting
167 that libc6's documentation incorrectly claims that it does not do
168 this (report by xDog Walker).
171 + modify util.c to work better with old versions of ncurses:
172 + suppress use of wchgat() before fix in 20060715 which is needed
173 for simple shadow manipulation used here in 2011/06/30 (report
175 + add a null-pointer check in dlg_print_scrolled()
176 + fix a regression in dlg_getc() introduced by changes to intercept
177 F1 for help-popup (report by xDog Walker).
180 + correct license statement for prgbox.c (Debian #632198).
181 + correct layout when "--colors" is used, by discounting characters in
182 the escape sequences from the column counts (report by xDog Walker).
183 + modify dlg_checklist() so that only one item in the list can
184 initially be selected (report by xDog Walker).
185 + add/use macro dlg_enter_buttoncode() to improve implementation of
186 "--nook" option (report by xDog Walker).
187 + add option "--no-nl-expand" to suppress the conversion of "\n"
188 strings into newlines (request by xDog Walker).
189 + modify LIB_CREATE symbol in makefile.in to include the library
190 dependencies such as ncurses. This is needed when dynamically
191 loading the library (report/analysis by xDog Walker).
192 + modify dlg_exit_label() to suppress the Cancel button, for
194 + modify dlg_exit_label() to honor the --nook option, except when there
195 is no other button, e.g., the help-button.
196 + modify dlg_exit_buttoncode() so that it returns the proper code for
197 help-button (report by xDog Walker).
198 + correct loop limit when processing "--column-separator" (report by
200 + modify handling of "--version" and "--help" to ensure that they are
201 processed, and exit before widgets. Separate "--print-version"
202 from "--version", allowing its output to be interspersed with
203 widget output (report by xDog Walker).
204 + correct a few places where "--version" or "--help" options went
205 always to stdout rather than allowing redirection with the "--stderr"
206 option (report by xDog Walker).
207 + improve repainting after erasing a widget and its shadow.
208 + add "--hline" and "--hfile" options for compatibility with FreeBSD
209 dialog (request by Devin Teske).
210 + add dialog version message when opening a trace file (request by
212 + show filename of rc-file in traces.
213 + add piped-in data for gauge widget to traces.
214 + add entrypoints to gauge widget, for allocating, updating and freeing
215 the widget (adapted from patch by Stephen Hurd).
216 + fix a reference to freed memory in the gauge widget.
217 + fix --no-mouse option by actually closing the mouse (report by
220 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
221 + limit Solaris xpg4 portability fix for redefinition of ERR to cover
222 the specific value found in <sys/regset.h>, in case an application
223 includes dialog.h after curses.h (FreeBSD #156601, report by Jaakko
224 Heinonen, Stephen Hurd).
225 + updated configure macros:
226 + CF_CURSES_CPPFLAGS,
227 + CF_CURSES_LIBS, make checks for special libraries on hpux10 and
229 + CF_CURSES_FUNCS, workaround for bug in gcc 4.2.1 (FreeBSD 8.1)
230 which caused part of test program to be omitted, i.e., when it saw
231 two return-statements in a row it omitted the _first_ one. Also
232 add expression to pointer check to help FreeBSD's linker decide it
233 should be validated. Just an assignment was not enough. Also, add
235 + CF_CURSES_HEADER, change order for curses.h / ncurses.h pairs to
236 put ncurses.h first, which will tend to provide the same #define's
237 as in CF_NCURSES_HEADER (report by Dennis Preiser).
238 + CF_CURSES_TERM_H, modify to avoid spurious check for
239 <curses.hterm.h> if there is no ncurses version. Look for
240 ncurses's term.h anyway, to work around breakage by packagers who
241 separate ncurses' header files.
242 + CF_DISABLE_RPATH_HACK, fix garbled message
243 + CF_LD_RPATH_OPT, add mirbsd
244 + CF_MAKEFLAGS, filter out GNU make's entering/leaving messages.
245 This only appeared when using the macro in a dpkg script, though it
246 should have in other cases.
247 + CF_RPATH_HACK, add a check for libraries not found, e.g., from
248 suppressed functionality of gcc in linking from /usr/local/lib, and
249 add a -L option to help work around this.
250 + CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, workaround for cygwin to get ncurses' configure
251 script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED (cygwin's features.h
252 doesn't do anything, so it needs a crutch).
253 + update config.guess, config.sub
256 + add --prgbox and --programbox (adapted from patch by David Boyd).
258 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
259 + fix timeouts from 2011/01/18, which were being interpreted as
260 milliseconds rather than seconds (report by Luis Moreira).
263 + fix inconsistency in return-codes for textbox when help-button is
264 used by making dlg_exit_buttoncode() a wrapper for
266 + modify pause widget to use dlg_ok_buttoncode(), so help-button works.
267 + correct two infobox sample scripts, which did not pass extra
268 command-line parameters due to quoting problems.
269 + add a limit-check to the timebox widget (patch by Garrett Cooper).
270 + modify --trace option to also trace the command-line parameters.
271 + account for combining characters when wrapping text (Debian #570634).
272 + correct handling of SIGWINCH in gauge widget (Debian #305705).
273 + add gauge_color, to make guage's progress-bar distinct from
274 title_color (request by Dominic Derdau).
276 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
277 as well as resync line-numbers in the other po-files.
278 + modify configure script and dialog program to build with NetBSD's
279 wide-character curses functions, including workarounds for its
280 incorrect WACS_xxx definitions. Some of the UTF-8 examples work.
281 + add back-tab for traversal of tailboxbg widgets, for symmetry with
283 + reduce flicker in tailboxbg by checking if the input file size has
285 + modify internals of callbacks to avoid blocking reads of their
286 associated files by keyboard input.
287 + add command-line option --no-mouse, to suppress use of mouse.
288 + add configure option --enable-header-subdir to allow the header files
289 to be installed into a subdirectory named for the package.
290 + modify dlg_restore_vars() to retain the updated values of
291 input_result and input_length, eliminating the need for a caller to
292 provide their own user buffer (prompted by report by Thiago Bimbatti
294 + add a null-pointer check in show_result() for
295 dialog_vars.input_result, and ensure it is set to null after freeing
296 (prompted by report by Thiago Bimbatti Felicio).
297 + change order of -I options in CPPFLAGS (report by Michel Feldheim)
298 + modify pause-widget so that it no longer exits when an unrecognized
299 key is pressed (patch by Creidieki M Crouch).
300 + add --with-package option to configure script to allow renaming
301 of the dialog program and library, to support the package scripts.
302 + add Debian and RPM package scripts for test-builds.
303 + several improvements to configure script:
304 + quote params of ifelse()
305 + change obsolete ${name-value} to standard ${name:-value}
306 + use new macros CF_ADD_LIB/CF_ADD_LIBS to enforce consistency.
307 + AM_GNU_GETTEXT, drop $MKINSTALLDIRS, use "mkdir -p" consistently.
308 + CF_ADD_SUBDIR_PATH, workaround - if $prefix was not mkdir'd yet, no
309 directories were added.
310 + CF_BUNDLED_INTL, add --with-textdomain option, to use with lynx-dev
312 + CF_FIND_LINKAGE, simplify save/restore of $LIBS
313 + CF_GCC_WARNINGS, fix for Mac OS X (compiler makes conftest.dSYM
315 + CF_HEADER_PATH, don't search for variations of everything in the
317 + CF_WITH_CURSES_DIR, move the calls to CF_ADD_INCDIR and
318 CF_ADD_LIBDIR for the curses-directory here, from
319 CF_NCURSES_CPPFLAGS and CF_NCURSES_LDFLAGS, so it will work even
320 with the default checking, e.g., no --with-ncurses, etc.
321 + update config.guess, config.sub
324 + several improvements to configure script:
325 + modify CF_CURSES_TERM_H to handle cases such as cygwin where
326 packager has installed curses.h and term.h in different
327 directories, e.g., to wedge in a termcap library.
328 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, adding special case for OpenSolaris
329 + modify CF_MAKE_TAGS to add check for exctags and exetags, prefer to
330 ctags and etags to work around pkgsrc (NetBSD) renaming.
331 + correct CF_FIND_LINKAGE, setting cache variable for library_file in
332 the special case where no directory search is made.
333 + improve CF_GCC_VERSION, suppress stderr for c89 alias of gcc.
334 + improve CF_GCC_WARNINGS, moving -W and -Wall into the list to
335 check, since c89 alias for gcc complains about these options.
336 + modify CF_HEADER_PATH, to not search for variations of everything
337 in the current include-path
338 + use "mkdir -p", remove mkdirs.sh
339 + use CF_CURSES_HEADER to fill in possible subdirectory used for
340 ncurses header filename.
341 + modify CF_XOPEN_CURSES to work around current ncurse header loss of
342 predefinition of _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
343 + add "--disable-rpath-hack" option, along with scripting to add
344 rpath option to libraries found in unusual places.
345 + modify pause widget to autosize like gauge, and to omit the area for
346 buttons when none are displayed.
347 + fix an infinite loop in dlg_button_layout() if there are no buttons
348 to display (Debian #579390).
349 + add makefile rules for generating html, etc., documentation from
351 > patches by Samuel MartÃn Moro
352 + reset errors in tailbox before reading new character.
353 + modify dlg_draw_scrollbar(), omitting hiding percentages in boxes
354 when no arrows or scrollbar are needed.
355 + correct value of row for scrollbars in formbox.
357 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
360 + split up binding tables in inputbox and similar widgets to avoid
361 conflict between cursor-key use for input-string versus navigation
362 (report by slakmagik).
363 + if strftime() is available, support --time-format option for timebox
365 + if strftime() is available, support --date-format option for calendar
366 widget (request by Walter Harms).
367 + build-fixes for linking to intl library in /usr/local
368 + add --scrollbar option, use in most widgets to show a scrollbar on
369 the right margin of the data. That is cosmetic, does not respond to
371 + reuse functions from msgbox to allow prompt for yesno box to be
372 scrolled in a too-small window.
373 + correct mapping of button-codes with --nook option (report by Lebedev
375 + cleanup sample scripts using new utility scripts setup-* and report-*,
376 and allow command-line parameters to be added, for ad hoc testing.
377 + correct change to tailbox widget from 2009/02/22 using
378 dlg_button_layout(), which broke that widget.
379 + document some of the portability caveats.
380 + modify gauge widget to service callbacks (prompted by patch and
381 comments by Frank Sorenson).
382 + modify editbox to allow its input buffer to be larger than MAX_LEN
383 unless bounded by the --max-input option, and add limit-checks for
384 the buffer (report by slakmagik).
385 + improve manpage description of --checklist (report by Isaac Good).
386 + several improvements to configure script macros: CF_ADD_CFLAGS
387 CF_CURSES_FUNCS CF_DISABLE_ECHO CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES CF_MATH_LIB
388 CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE CF_REMOVE_DEFINE CF_WITH_LIBTOOL CF_XOPEN_SOURCE
389 + add is.po, lv.po, sw.po from
390 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
391 + update de.po, id.po, pl.po, pt_BR.po, vi.po from
392 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
395 + do not display top-arrows for scrolling if they would overwrite the
396 title (report by slakmagik)
397 + consistently use dlg_button_layout() when autosizing widgets (report
399 + add "-" and "+" bindings to timebox widget.
400 + add "-" and "+" bindings to calendar widget (OpenSolaris #6739031).
401 + review/fix other widgets to ensure that they exit on error, e.g.,
403 + modify check in dlg_getc() to treat closure of either stdin or stdout
404 as an error, rather than both. This is more stringent than the check
406 + modify dlg_result_key() to map curses ERR to dialog's error exit
407 (adapted from patch by Domagoj Pensa).
408 + updated several configure script macros:
409 + consistently append, rather then prepend, to $CFLAGS
410 + add cases for AIX 6, mint, and dragonfly to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE
411 + use $PATH_SEPARATOR rather than $PATHSEP
412 + improve CF_FIND_LINKAGE, use in checks for more libraries, e.g.,
413 libutf8 and libiconv.
414 + update da.po, ru.po from
415 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
416 + update config.guess, config.sub
419 + amend changes to quoting; by default, the checklist widget quotes its
420 output except when --separate-output is used (Debian #495600).
422 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
425 + add pointer-check when closing piped input (cf: 2007/03/25)
426 + use here-documents rather than echo, when passing backslashes in
427 strings, to accommodate the Debian shell "dash" (Debian #489563).
428 + recode several ".po" files to UTF-8 for consistency.
429 + change --separator to be an alias for --output-separator, for
430 compatibility with Xdialog.
431 + add --output-separator option to allow scripts to change the output
432 separator from a newline (for --separate-output) or a space. This
433 applies to other widgets such as forms and editboxes which normally
435 + add --column-separator option, to tell where column-aligned data for
436 radio/checkboxes or menus should be split into columns (request by
438 + add id.po, ku.po, lt.po, nb.po and update ca.po, fr.po, gl.po, ja.po,
440 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
441 + add "--quoted" option, to quote values returned by formbox, etc.
442 + change names of EX/ES macros in dialog.1 to work around name-
443 pollution caused by changes in Debian #470729.
446 + modify dlg_mouse_wgetch() to loop only on errors that it detects,
447 rather than on errors forwarded from dlg_getc(), in case those are
448 due to a disconnected terminal (report by Anatoli Sakhnik).
449 + allow "default" color in dialogrc file (request by Dashing).
450 + fix an indexing error in formbox (Debian #469190, report by Dmitry
451 Gomerman, patch by Vladimir Mezentsev).
452 + add bindings for CTL/N, CTL/P to checklist, fselect and menubox
453 widgets (prompted by discussion with John Gatewood Ham).
454 + add be@latin.po, th.po and update zh_TW.po from
455 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
456 > patches by Peter Astrand:
457 + modify dlg_auto_sizefile() to ensure the computed height and width
458 do not extend beyond the screen size.
459 + use unctrl() to make inputstr.c work with Solaris curses.
460 > patches by Yura Kalinichenko:
461 + extend pause widget to use ok/cancel buttons (the former giving the
462 same result as a timeout), rather than an exit-button.
463 + fix initialization parameter of inputbox for multibyte characters.
466 + improve layout of checklist.c, menubox.c, ensuring that the list fits
467 within the available space (report by Gordon Schumacher).
468 + undo removal of redundant chunk from checklist.c in 2007/02/27,
469 since some scripts depend on this (Debian #443077).
471 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
474 + correct cursor position in editbox after deleting past left margin
475 (report by Joe McDonagh).
476 + add "--no-ok" option (patch by Klaus Knopper).
477 + modify "--file" option to allow it to read from sources other than
478 a regular file (patch by Pieter van Beek).
479 + improved hi.po (Hindi) (from Klaus Knopper).
480 + fix masking of attributes in dlg_draw_shadow() which lost
481 line-drawing bit (report by David Everly).
482 + fix editbox widget to handle zero-length files (report by Joe
484 + update "po" files eu.po ga.po it.po ms.po sv.po vi.po wa.po zh_CN.po
486 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
489 + revise the resizable shadows so textbox's search dialog has text
490 visible in the shadow again.
491 + improve the prefixing of autoconf-related symbols in the installed
492 header files, taking into account symbols which are not mentioned in
494 + add a check when ERR returned from wgetch() to ensure that the
495 input/output streams are still valid. If that happens, force
496 ESC to be returned, quitting dialog (report by Reiner Huober).
497 + add extern "C" declarations to dlg_keys.h so the corresponding
498 function declarations are exported to C++ as C symbols.
499 + update config.guess, config.sub
502 + fix a memory leak in editbox.c
503 + revise change from 2007/02/27 which moved the logic for trimming
504 option text out of the loop because that moved it before
505 initialization of the "--trim" option. Put it back in the loop, but
506 limit the tokens which are trimmed to cover only those for the
507 current widget. Also ensure that all tokens for a widget are
508 trimmed, rather than only the first, which is usually text (report by
510 + add _FILE_OFFSET_BITS definition in CF_LARGEFILE configure macro.
513 + revise changes needed to make textbox's searchbox handle ncurses
514 resizing events, e.g., by handling the ERR in that code rather than
515 in dlg_getc() (Debian #423732).
518 + supply a repaint_text() call in tailbox.c which was bypassed because
519 dlg_getc() now retries on ERR (Debian #423732, cf: 2007/02/27).
520 + modify dlg_getc() to fix regression in 2007/02/27 for use of
521 timeouts, broken by fixes to allow resizing of textbox (patch by
522 Arnaud Fontaine, Debian #418905).
523 + modify dlg_getc() to fix regression in use of TAB for traversal of
524 tailboxbg widgets due to changes for user-definable key bindings
525 (Debian #418917, cf: 2005/12/07).
528 + add case in dlg_getc() to handle tab for traversing between widgets
529 as in the samples/tailboxbg1 script. Normally the key binding
530 overrides, except for the special case where multiple widgets are
532 + add configure --with-libtool-opts, which passes its value to the
533 library creation and linkage passes, e.g.,
534 --with-libtool-opts=-static
535 to force the result to be static libraries (prompted by a related
536 request by Santiago Vila).
537 > several fixes based on Coverity scan:
538 + fix memory leak in timebox, calendar widgets if the widget cannot
540 + fix memory leak in dlg_key.c if a user binding's storage cannot
542 + fix improperly delinked entry in dlg_del_window().
545 + improve mkdirs.sh to ignore error from mkdir if the target directory
546 happens to already exist (suggested by Harald van Dijk).
547 + amend documentation for --gauge to reflect longstanding quirk which
548 allows it to read percentage from the first line after an "XXX"
550 + fix makefile dependency so "configure && make install-lib" works.
551 + fix resizing of msgbox; the message was not repainted (Debian
552 #415022, patch by Brian Rolfe).
553 + fix typo in makefile LIB_OBJECT symbol from 2007/02/27 changes.
554 + improve CF_MBSTATE_T by including stdio.h, needed on Tru64 to make
555 the test-compile work.
556 + change makefile to install dialog.3 as part of install-lib rather
557 than install-man (report by Thomas Klausner).
558 + use $(INSTALL_SCRIPT) for installing dialog-config (report by
562 + add dialog-config script, which provides applications with compile-
563 and link-information for using the dialog library.
564 + move calls to dlg_trim_string() out of loop in dialog.c, so each
565 string is trimmed once (report by Ivanov Makcim).
566 + modify textbox.c to allow resizing while the search box is presented.
567 This relies on bug-fix in ncurses 5.6 20070224.
568 + use dgettext() rather than gettext() to allow libdialog to use the
569 messages installed for dialog (patch by Vajna Miklos).
570 + modify inputbox to position the cursor initially at the end of any
571 initial-text (request by Klaus Knopper).
572 + add configure --with-valgrind for testing.
573 + add --trace option, for debugging.
574 + add --ascii-lines and --no-lines options to control the way the
575 line-drawing characters are rendered (request by Klaus Knopper).
576 + add --keep-tite option, to override suppression of smcup/rmcup
577 (termcap ti/te) strings which would switch to xterm's alternate
578 screen (Debian #380665).
579 + modify fselect/dselect to use space-character as a completion
580 operator like tab in shells (patch by Yoram Bar Haim).
581 + remove a redundant chunk from checklist.c which reported status a
582 second time if the help-button was pressed but no item-help option
583 was in effect (Andre C Barros).
584 + fix return-status from "dialog --pause" (Debian #409254).
585 + add --mixedform and --mixedgauge dialogs based on patch from
587 + add some notes on compatibility to the manpage.
588 + add editbox dialog (compatible with Xdialog, Debian #368478).
589 + add dselect dialog (compatible with Xdialog).
590 + remove an incorrect initialization of .text_flen from 2005/12/07
591 changes, which made all fields in a form editable (Debian #404045).
592 + report error and exit if a filename given for the --file option
593 cannot be opened (report by "Dog Walker").
594 + make --program-prefix, etc., work in configure script, e.g., to make
595 program install as "cdialog". This does not alter the library name.
596 + add install-bin, install-man (and uninstall) rules to makefile.
597 + updates for configure script macros (originally vile, lynx, xterm):
598 AM_PATH_PROG_WITH_TEST, AM_WITH_NLS, CF_CURSES_CPPFLAGS,
599 CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_INCLUDE_DIRS, CF_LARGEFILE, CF_MAKEFLAGS,
600 CF_PATH_SYNTAX, CF_SUBDIR_PATH, CF_SUBST, CF_WITH_DBMALLOC,
601 CF_WITH_DMALLOC, CF_WITH_LIBTOOL and CF_XOPEN_SOURCE.
602 + update config.guess, config.sub
603 > adapted fixes from SuSE package (Werner Fink):
604 + add some limit-checks in dlg_draw_shadow().
605 + make shadows resizable, using new dlg_move_window() in msgbox.c
607 + add dialog_state.input, use this in end_dialog() to decide whether
608 to close pipe inputs and call _exit(), or simply call exit().
609 + modify dlg_ctl_size() to check if the reason for failure is because
610 shadows were used; retry in that case without shadows.
611 + add signal catcher for SIGSEGV.
614 + fix logic in split-out dlg_menu() to separate inputmenu and menu
615 handling (report by Auke Kok).
618 + fix fselect.c to compile properly with Intel compiler and largefile
620 + improve configure script checks for curses headers to work around
621 breakage in some packages, e.g., cygwin.
622 + amend correction to menubox, fixes normal menus (Debian #349969).
625 + completed dialog.3 manpage
626 + modify configure script option --with-gauge to cover all flavors of
627 the gauge (gauge, pause, progressbox).
628 + add progressbox widget, a hybrid of gauge and tailbox (Reznic Valery).
629 + fix a comparison in checklist.c to avoid unneeded arrows when the
630 list happens to fit in the window (patch by Peter Postma).
631 + correct wrapping computation in print_line() from 2005/11/07 changes
632 (report by Barry Kauler).
633 + update sv.po (comments only).
634 http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/maint/dialog/
635 + correct logic that passes the callback for menubox to do inputmenu
636 operations from 2005/12/7 changes (report by Reznic Valery).
639 + add a null-pointer check in dlg_register_buttons(), needed for the
640 tailboxbg (Debian #345524).
641 + fix a few memory leaks reported by valgrind.
644 + correct return-values of new functions dlg_default_listitem() and
645 dlg_default_formitem() (Debian #344002).
646 + add Swedish translation (Debian #343303, by Daniel Nylander)
647 + begin function-summaries in dialog.3
648 + update config.guess, config.sub
651 + change license to LGPL.
652 + change naming convention in dlg_colors.h to make it easier to read,
653 and incidentally remove the last chunk of code preventing relicense.
654 + add --passwordform (request by Reznic Valery).
655 + modify pause.c, msgbox.c to work with --help-button.
656 + modify formbox.c, inputbox.c, textbox.c, yesno.c to work with extra
657 button (adapted from Reznic Valery patch).
658 + modify dlg_exit_label(), dlg_yes_labels() and dlg_ok_label() to allow
659 help-button (prompted by Reznic Valery patch).
660 + add zh_CN.po file from
661 http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/maint/dialog/
662 + provide alternate interfaces for dialog_checklist(), dialog_menu()
663 and dialog_form(): dlg_checklist(), dlg_menu() and dlg_form()
664 (discussion with Michael Gebetsroither).
665 + add/use dlg_result_key() to allow binding function keys to the
667 + implement user-definable key bindings in the rc-file.
668 + modify inline cases for KEY_xxx values to use binding tables in new
670 + add several DIALOG_STATE items to the rc file: aspect,
671 separate_widget, tab_len and visit_links
672 + add a tab-adjustment to dlg_print_text() to improve solution from
673 2005/10/30, e.g., in the samples/form* scripts.
674 + fix an off-by-one which made mouse-selection not work for menu items
675 past the first page (GenToo #112024, patch by Harald van Dijk).
678 + extend dlg_add_result() to allow caller to pass a null pointer
679 for dialog_vars.input_result (Debian #336986).
680 + correct length used for text portion of radio/checkboxes (report by
682 + modify msgbox, textbox and center_label() to work properly for
683 LANG=bg_BG.utf8 examples by Valentin Stoykov.
684 + modify use of freopen() to work with opaque FILE type on DragonFly
685 (report by Jeremy C Reed).
686 + modify print_line() to compute columns, use that for the call to
687 dlg_print_line(). Fix a few places where strlen() was used instead
688 of dlg_count_columns() (reports by Valentin Stoykov).
691 + reviewed changes since beginning development in 1999, decided that
692 there are no appreciable portions of original code remaining.
693 Marked sources to correspond.
694 + improve cache performance for inputstr.c using tsearch() rather than
695 a linked-list search (Debian #294853).
696 + remove a special case for darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
697 + add ms.po file from
698 http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/maint/dialog/
699 + remove an assignment that caused the cursor to appear initially on a
700 form field rather than button (Debian #333506).
701 + modify buttons.c to count columns rather than bytes, fixing case
702 where buttons were laid out incorrectly (report by Valentin Stoykov).
703 + change dlg_print_text() to count columns rather than bytes, fixing
704 case where fewer columns were displayed in menu than expected
705 (report by Valentin Stoykov).
708 + improve fix for dlg_does_output(), eliminating redundant leading
710 + fill background color for item-help text (report by Peter Postma).
711 + correct interaction between --separate-output and --output-separator
712 broken in 2005/09/11 fix for Debian #326918 (Debian #331440).
713 + update config.guess, config.sub
716 + undo doubled adjustment for left/right margins when wrapping text
717 for msgbox, gauge and pause (report by Xyba).
718 + correct position of scrolled text in formbox broken by 2004/12/19
719 changes (report by Konrad Jelen).
720 + call dlg_does_output() from dlg_add_result(), ensuring that
721 separators are used when combining widgets such as formbox (report by
723 + fix marker in textbox.c to make it disappear at the top of the file
724 (report by Patrick J. Volkerding).
725 + fix marker shown in arrows.c for checklists, etc., which was "(+)"
726 where it should have been "(-)" (report/patch by Patrick J.
728 + fix --input-fd (changes in glibc since 2003 made dialog hang on exit
729 due to the way dialog updated stdin).
730 + restore default value (a tab) for --separator or --separate-widget
731 lost in 2003/11/26 changes (Debian #326918).
732 + make several widgets handle SIGWINCH (calendar, checklist, formbox,
733 fselect, inputbox, menubox, pause, tailbox, textbox, timebox). Only
734 msgbox and yesno had been done before. Note that some still have
735 fixed geometry requirements, so they cannot be shrunk below a given
736 threshold. Also, these changes do not address traversal, e.g., for
738 + make gauge widget handle SIGWINCH with ncurses (Debian #305705).
739 + add configure option to control whether largefile support is
740 compiled-in (Debian #298882).
741 + update eu.po (Debian #312622, patch by Piarres Egana).
742 + add/update po files from
743 http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/maint/dialog/
744 fi.po, rw.po, sr.po, tr.po, zh_TW.po
745 + fixes for configure script:
746 + improve script for determining gcc version
747 + improve checks for Intel compiler and related warning options
748 + improve checks for defining _XOPEN_SOURCE (or alternatives) and
750 + update config.guess, config.sub
753 + add/update po files from
754 http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/maint/dialog/
756 + revert last change for da.po; it was from an older version (report by
757 Morten Brix Pedersen).
760 + modify makefile.in so --disable-echo applies to libtool builds.
761 + corrected malloc size used for editable fields in formbox widget to
762 match the function which updates the corresponding buffer.
763 + modify formbox widget's use of flen to allow negative values to be
764 used to limit the length of the displayed field.
765 + improve description in manpage of output from formbox widget
767 + modify formbox widget to allow fields with flen==0 to display
769 + improved configure macros CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE and CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, to
770 avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
771 + fix a typo in inputmenu-stdout found via "sh -n" (report by Steve
773 + add/update po files from
774 http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/maint/dialog/
775 ca.po, da.po, hu.po, nl.po, rm.po, ro.po, vi.po
778 + add --args option to help with debugging scripts.
779 + adapted some new po files from Debian package for whiptail: ar.po,
780 bg.po, gl.po, hi.po, hr.po, mg.po, mk.po, ro.po, sq.po and zh_TW.po
781 + update da.po (Morten Brix Pedersen).
782 + add configure check for Intel 8.0 compiler, to set appropriate
784 + update config.guess, config.sub
787 + correct a typo in 2004/12/19 changes which caused width of multibyte
788 characters to be incorrectly computed in some locales.
789 + modify --version and --help options to write consistently to the
790 standard output (report by Santiago Vila).
791 + modify tailboxbg by resetting tty modes at the point where it forks a
792 process to update the screen, rather than waiting until that process
793 exits. This improves user feedback by making it apparent that dialog
794 is no longer processing input after that point (Redhat Bugzilla
796 + minor updates to some .po files using Babel Fish, comparing with lynx.
797 + update es.po (Santiago Vila).
798 + work around bug in NetBSD 1.6 curses which seems to be confused by
799 reusing color pairs with different video attributes. The problem
800 does not appear in NetBSD 2.0 curses (but its headers do not provide
801 version info, so color-caching is not available for that
803 + modify pause and gauge widgets to ensure that reverse-video progress
804 bar is visible when the background is reversed, e.g., using the
805 default non-color attributes.
806 + use chtype rather than attr_t, to build with old Solaris curses,
807 used in save/restore operation from 2004/09/20.
810 + add pause-widget (patch by Yura Kalinichenko).
811 + modify exit-code returned on selecting the "Help"-button when the
812 --item-help option is given. Previously this returned the same code
813 as "OK", since it combines output for "OK" with the help status. It
814 now returns the help-code, but this can be overridden by setting the
815 environment variable $DIALOG_ITEM_HELP (reports by Erika Pacholleck
816 and Sebastian Muesch).
817 + modify formbox widget so input-length is not limited to field-length
818 (report by David Liebermann).
819 + localize the label on the search box for textbox widget (report by
821 + correct usage message detail for fselect, which listed an extra
822 parameter (Debian #284008).
823 + add include for <sys/select.h> in ui_getc.c to build with QNX 4.25
824 using Watcom 10.6 (patch by Len Meakin).
825 + modify behavior when no locale (or POSIX locale) is set to allow
826 legacy interpretation of Latin-1 character set (Debian #284795).
829 + correct computation of column width for menubox/checkbox tags, for
830 multicolumn characters, e.g., the menubox-utf8 example.
831 + correct calls to wbkgdset(), which set the background attribute but
832 not the corresponding character (ncurses uses blank if none is given).
833 + improve configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE and _POSIX_C_SOURCE.
834 + improved limit-computation in show_message() to allow for scrolling
836 + adjust scrolling logic in msgbox to account for the one-line offset
837 used by the logic which wraps text in a box, thus avoiding leaving
838 an extra blank line (report by Maxim Sobolev).
841 + add samples/whiptail.rc
842 + add samples/dialog.py (noting that a later version of this exists
843 as pythondialog, but this is relatively self-contained). Modified
844 the script to accept the $DIALOG environment variable like the other
845 sample scripts, to specify the path of the program to use.
846 + modify the install rule for header-files so the autoconf names in
847 dlg_config.h (and corresponding usage in dialog.h, etc), are altered
848 from "HAVE_xxx" to "DLG_HAVE_xxx", etc.
849 + add a check for getenv("HOME") in rc.c
850 + add a call to end_dialog() in signal_handler for tailboxbg (from
851 patch by Werner Fink).
852 + correct initialization in checklist and radiobox for --default-item,
854 + modify --visit-items option so that it puts the cursor initially on
855 the list (in menubox, checklist and radiobox), accepts abbreviations
856 for the buttons when the cursor is on the button-row, and otherwise
857 (when --visit-items is given) abbreviations apply only to the list
858 (report by Erika Pacholleck).
859 + modify a few widgets (inputbox, textbox, yesno) to beep on unexpected
861 + modify some msgbox widget to accept abbreviations of its button
862 label, for consistency with other widgets (request by Erika
864 + corrected logic of dlg_char_to_button(), making it check only the
865 first uppercase letter in each button label rather than all uppercase
866 letters (report by Erika Pacholleck, cf: 2003/09/10).
867 + improved description of --clear and --keep-window options (adapted
868 from Erika Pacholleck).
869 + move discussion of --beep and --beep-signal options to Obsolete
870 Options section of manpage, remove these from the help-message
871 (report by Erika Pacholleck).
872 + bracket extern's in dialog.h with C++ extern "C" declaration, in case
873 the library is used from a C++ application.
874 + modify inputmenu examples to allow ESC to cancel the script.
875 + modify inputmenu widget to cancel edit on a TAB or ESC.
876 + modify inputmenu widget to use the same color scheme for the editable
877 text as the inputbox widget.
878 + modify samples/killall to work around differences in "cut" versions.
879 + use the color-caching from the \Z logic when loading the ".rc" file,
880 thereby reducing the number of color pairs required, and making it
881 less likely that deriving color pairs for drawing arrows on a given
882 background will run out of colors.
883 + save/restore window attributes in dlg_draw_arrows() and similar
884 functions, to allow widgets to draw arrows using the widget's
885 background rather than a common/fixed value (request by Erika
887 + modify textbox widget so the down-arrow will be hidden when at the
888 end of the file. (Modifying the up-arrow to be hidden is harder -
889 will do this when implementing scrollbars).
890 + correct off-by-one in fselect.c which left down-arrows showing at
891 the bottom of directory- and file-lists (report by Erika Pacholleck).
892 + improve display of percentages by omitting blanks where lines should
894 + modify logic for \Z escapes to make those that set video attributes
895 not clear the colors (report by Erika Pacholleck).
896 + modify logic for \Z escapes to allow foreground and background
897 colors to be the same, provided that bold attribute is set.
898 Also improved the logic for choosing a background color when the
899 foreground and background are the same (report by Erika Pacholleck).
900 + updated configure script macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, ensuring that the
901 _POSIX_C_SOURCE value is defined with a specific value (bug report
902 originally for lynx).
903 + fix configure script so that po/makefile is generated properly when
904 the configure --srcdir --enable-nls options are used.
905 + modify makefile.in to allow build/install from another directory,
906 i.e., using configure --srcdir (patch by Mike Castle).
907 + updated da.po (Debian #262587, Morten Brix Pedersen).
908 + modify some sample scripts to avoid using grave quotes nested within
909 double quotes with multiple file redirection, which does not work
910 with Solaris /bin/sh (report/analysis by Eric Haller).
911 + check for end of string immediately after a \Z escape to avoid
912 displaying the null terminator as a ^@ (report by Erika Pacholleck).
913 > patches by Erika Pacholleck:
914 + modify calendar.c, fselect.c and timebox.c to use color scheme like
915 other lists, using menubox colors rather than dialog colors.
916 + correct charset for po/de.po, translate messages for "Help" and
918 + omit parentheses around percentage in textbox.c
919 + correct a few mismatched attributes, e.g., searchbox_attr in textbox.c,
920 percentage in msgbox.c,
924 + add test scripts to cover zero-width column case.
925 + remove limit checks from checklist.c and menubox.c (cf: 2004/07/28),
926 since some scripts use zero-width columns (Debian #262411 and report
930 + modify msgbox.c to only reserve space for percentage shown as part
931 of scrollable text for the msgbox widget. This makes infobox look
932 as it did before 2004/06/06 changes (report by Vinesh Christopher)
935 + remove redundant calls to wtimeout() from widgets since wtimeout()
936 is properly called from ui_getc() where it is controlled by the
937 --timeout option (bug report by juanjo).
938 + add limit checks in checklist.c and menubox.c for very narrow screens
939 (prompted by Steve Grubb patch).
940 + initialize step in dlg_draw_buttons() in case it is used to draw
941 a vertical list of buttons (prompted by Steve Grubb patch).
942 > fixes by Steve Grubb:
943 + correct logic in checklist.c (cf: 2003/11/26 changes) which turned
944 quoting on unnecessarily for radiobox, breaking some old scripts.
945 + increase size of array in dlg_ok_labels() to avoid overrun if extra
946 and help buttons are used (cf: 2002/06/12 changes).
947 + initialize fkey variable in menubox.c and textbox.c (cf: 2003/07/12).
949 2004/07/21 - release 1.0
950 + minor updates for configure script, i.e., CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
951 CF_NCURSES_LIBS macros.
952 + update config.guess, config.sub
953 + add nl.po (Jacques Weewer).
956 + add --visit-items option, which allows the user to tab to the item
957 list in the checklist/radiobox and menubox widgets (request by
959 + use wide-character line-drawing for up/down arrows when configured
960 for wide-characters, gives better results with uxterm.
961 + limit the number of times a --file option can be used, to prevent
962 runaway recursion if a --file option is embedded within a file which
964 + improve discussion of wrapping in the manpage (Debian #251937).
965 + modify msgbox to allow it to scroll vertically like textbox (Debian
966 #233276). This only works with ncurses.
967 + implement $DIALOGVARS environment variable to apply common options to
968 dialog_vars when it is reset before processing other common options.
969 + add --single-quoted option to control whether output is double-quoted
970 with '"' or single-quoted with single-quotes.
971 + revert the default quoting behavior of checklists to use
972 double-quotes (report by Mark K Post regarding Slackware scripts).
973 + add eu.po (Basque) (Piarres Beobide Egaa).
974 + add ca.po (Catalan) (Jordi Mallach).
977 + add a call to flushinp() to init_dialog(), to discard any typeahead
978 before dialog is invoked (Debian #244746).
979 + correct dlg_match_char() function, which was broken during rewrite
980 to support wide-characters (Debian #244777).
981 + improved ru.po, uses UTF-8 charset (Leonid Kanter, Redhat Bugzilla
983 + correct position of shadow drawn for dialogs, which appeared to work
984 for most versions of curses (other than NetBSD) but would have been
985 visible for certain color schemes (discussion with Julian Coleman).
986 + correct loop-exit in longest_word() (Tomas Heredia, forwarded by
988 + add cy.po (Welsh) (Dafydd Harries).
991 + modify quoting of results to use single-quote rather than double
992 quote, and ensure that results containing a quote or backslash
993 character are escaped (report by Florent Rougon)
994 + remove an incorrect comparison from checklist which made cursor
995 stick on the last line, from 2004/03/01 changes.
998 + add a dependency to install library if "--with-libtool" is used.
999 + add manpage for the library.
1001 + modify formbox.c to support "--help-status" like menubox.
1002 + modify checklist.c to add item name to the "HELP" string when
1003 "--help-button" is used and no --item-help option is given (Debian
1004 #236841, report/patch by Jorg Sommer).
1005 + rename colors.h to dlg_colors.h, install that when the library is
1007 + add copyright notice to usage ("--help") message.
1008 + correct a missing bounds check for mouse-clicks in menubox (prompted
1010 + updated several configure-script macros: AM_GNU_GETTEXT,
1011 AM_WITH_NLS, CF_OUR_MESSAGES, CF_PROG_EXT, CF_WITH_DBMALLOC,
1012 CF_WITH_DMALLOC, CF_WITH_LIBTOOL, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE.
1015 + improve layout of calendar widget to allow for very long button
1016 labels (report by Santiago Vila).
1017 + correct logic for $DIALOG_TTY, broken in 2003/11/30. The environment
1018 variable must evaluate to a nonzero integer (report by Florent
1020 + document interaction between "--default-no" and "--no-cancel" options
1021 in manpage (Debian #223488).
1022 + change configure script to use autoconf 2.52+patch, to work around
1023 issues with Estonian locale (report by Seemant Kulleen).
1024 + add uk.po (Ukrainian) (Debian #232441).
1025 + make --default-item apply to checklist widget (Debian #225255).
1026 + correct a missing check for --item-help when --help-status was given
1027 for checklist (Debian #232921).
1028 + correct a missing bounds check for mouse-clicks in checklist (Debian
1030 + update config.guess, config.sub
1033 + correct infinite loop in yesno widget when "--defaultno" option is
1034 combined with "--no-cancel" (Debian #223077).
1037 + suppress double-quotes added for "--help-status" option if the
1038 string does not contain any special characters.
1041 + add samples/sourcemage.rc, for comparison with slackware.rc
1042 + add "--insecure" option (request by Sean Mathews (DrWho@f34r.com)).
1043 + make "--defaultno" option apply to widgets which use OK/Cancel
1044 buttons as well (Debian #209030).
1045 + improve documentation of exit-codes for each widget in the manpage
1047 + add option "--keep-window" to suppress repainting after completing
1048 each widget (request by Ingo van Lil).
1049 + add options "--yes-label" and "--no-label" to allow override of the
1050 "Yes" and "No" strings (request by Christoph Zwerschke).
1051 + add option "--help-status" to allow script to restore a checklist
1052 or radiolist after processing an item-help string (Debian #209031).
1053 + modify width-calculation for non-formatted text to ensure it is
1054 wide enough for the longest word in the text (patch by Andrew Gaul).
1055 + modify dlg_index_columns() to count a newline as a single cell rather
1056 than 2 for the normal curses case. This fixes an off-by-one for
1057 the text-justification, shown in screen 2 of msgbox1 sample script.
1058 + fix dlg_char_to_button(); 2003/09/10 changes made it incorrectly
1059 ignore case of the labels.
1060 + change calendar's use of arrow keys so they are (as before 2002/06/22)
1061 interpreted within the day-grid as movement within that grid (request
1063 + correct missing initialization of last_getc variable in dlg_getc()
1064 (report/analysis by Victor Wodecki).
1065 + modify main program to make
1066 dialog --no-shadow --print-maxsize
1067 work. Normally dialog prints the screen size after subtracting the
1068 area reserved for shadows, but some applications may need the actual
1069 screen size (Debian #213424).
1070 + several related changes (Debian #213425):
1071 + separate the examples using "--stdout" and "--output-fd" from the
1072 normal usage examples.
1073 + add "--input-fd" option, provide a sample of its use.
1074 + modify init_dialog() to use initscr() unless a "--stdout" option
1075 was used. Some scripts relied on the coincidence that redirecting
1076 standard output from dialog would "work". Before this change
1077 init_dialog() assumed that redirected standard output was
1078 synonymous with "--stdout" option (not the intended behavior).
1079 + modify command-line parsing to look for "--stdout" and "--stderr"
1080 options first, allowing only one.
1081 + add a check for an environment variable $DIALOG_TTY which provides
1082 the older behavior, i.e., try to open the terminal directly if
1083 stdout is redirected.
1084 + interface changes, to make libdialog simpler to use:
1085 + rename all of the internal functions to begin with "dlg_", but
1086 provide compatibility with older names if the application defines
1087 __DIALOG_OLD_NAMES__.
1088 + add dialog_version() function, and corresponding DIALOG_VERSION and
1089 DIALOG_PATCHDATE definitions to dlg_config.h
1090 + eliminate remaining global variables such as screen_initialized in
1091 favor of dialog_state and dialog_vars.
1092 + move some data such as dialog_vars.output to dialog_state, since
1093 they are normally not reset between widgets.
1094 + change interfaces of dialog_yesno() and dialog_checklist() to use
1095 dialog_state.defaultno and dialog_vars.separate_output, making it
1096 simpler and more consistent.
1097 + improve configure script and related definitions:
1098 + add "--with-libtool" option to provide shared library support by
1100 + rename generated "config.h" to "dlg_config.h", so it can be
1101 installed without naming conflict. Added "dlg_config.h" to
1103 + modify configure script and makefile to use EXEEXT and OBJEXT.
1104 + add "--enable-widec" option to control whether wide-curses features
1105 are compiled-in, rather than check for the existence of those in
1106 the curses library. This allows building with HPUX curses, which
1107 has abandoned legacy features while not quite supporting X/Open
1109 + add configure check for getbegx(), etc., which are not provided on
1111 + update config.guess, config.sub
1114 + update hu.po (Arpad Biro).
1115 + revert part of the 2003/08/18 change to "--stdout" option. Using
1116 stderr for screen output does not work well on several platforms
1117 since stdout's settings are affected (report by Kent Robotti).
1120 + modify tailbox to allow it to display files with arbitrarily long
1122 + fix an infinite loop in tailbox, broken when making interface changes
1123 to dlg_getc() (report by Ingo van Lil).
1124 + amend fix for "--and-widget" to not treat "---" as an option (report
1126 + updated es.po (Santiago Vila).
1129 + correct "RENAMED" result from inputmenu widget, which did not reset
1130 the result buffer, and did not account for scroll-offset (Debian
1132 + modify button, menu and checklist logic that matches a character to
1133 the beginning of a text field to support wide-characters (completes
1135 + modify configure script to not use "head -1".
1138 + modify searchbox popup in textbox widget so one can simply press
1139 return on an empty input to cancel the popup.
1140 + modify error reporting to avoid clearing screen if a problem is
1141 found in the ".rc" file.
1142 + add color/attribute combinations for form widget (based on patch by
1144 + combine rc-file colors, attribute- and color-tables to obtain a
1145 single table for color values, which requires less work to add new
1147 + modify fselect widget to make back-tab work again, since it was
1148 broken by the rewrite of dlg_edit_string().
1149 + modify howmany_tags() so it will quit searching when it finds any
1150 option, not only "--and-widget" (Debian #206636).
1151 + correct call to dlg_print_text() in print_line(), which did not
1152 account for hidden characters (report/patch by David Poole).
1153 + modify print_button() to display properly if locale defines ok/cancel
1154 or yes/no buttons that contain multibyte characters.
1157 + correct an indexing error when deleting from the end of a line using
1158 KEY_DC; it happened to work on Linux because malloc() clears memory
1160 + add '\r' to case statement where '\n' is translated to KEY_ENTER to
1161 work around defect in NetBSD curses.
1162 + modify configure check for getparyx(), etc., which are implemented
1163 by NetBSD curses as functions rather than macros.
1164 + correct configure check for term.h, which may be <ncursesw/term.h>
1165 if ncursesw development headers are installed, but not ncurses
1166 development headers. Or they may not coincide (Debian #206287).
1169 + modify checklist.c and menubox.c to display tags properly if they
1170 contain wide-characters.
1171 + better solution for initializing curses when "--stdout" option is
1172 used, e.g., use stderr for the output if it is a tty. Also correct
1173 the error handling, so dialog exits with an error if it cannot
1174 find a way to do output (Debian #205509).
1175 + modify sample scripts to use consistent definition of $DIALOG
1177 + add UTF-8 examples inputbox6-utf8, inputbox6-utf8 (from Tomohiro
1178 Kubota, Debian #195674).
1179 + modify print_line() to work with wide-characters, e.g., so it handles
1180 wrapping for double-width characters.
1181 + cache results from multibyte character indices, speeds up cursor
1183 + modify form widget to support scrolling and mouse-selection.
1184 + add form widget (based on patch by Reznic Valery).
1185 + correct mouse-handling for inputmenu widget.
1186 + corrections to menu.c: location of clearing operation, and height of
1187 rows in code for older ncurses versions (patch by Reznic Valery).
1188 + improve logic that compensates for xterm's alternate-screen by
1189 cancelling the rmcup/smcup strings after the rmcup has been issued.
1190 That ensures that dialog will not clear the screen on exit (report
1192 + modify initialization between widgets to retain the values for the
1193 --aspect, --separate-widget and --tab-len options.
1194 + add --separator as an alias for --separate-widget (compatible with
1196 + correct handling of Xdialog's --icon and --wmclass options, whose
1197 parameter was not ignored.
1198 + correct logic for --separate-widget so its string is written before
1199 each output, rather than only for --and-widget option (report by
1201 + improve limit-check in center_label() for buttons.c (report by Tor
1203 + correct layout of --menu widget, which reduced display width due to
1204 logic for --inputmenu being applied whether or not that configuration
1205 was used (reports by Javier Kohen, Dimitar Zhekov and MAL
1206 <mal@komcept.com>). Fixes Debian #201215.
1207 + modify gauge widget to support --begin option (Hans-Joachim Baader).
1208 + updated pl.po (Jaroslaw Swierczynski).
1209 + hide cursor while painting gauge.
1210 + add auto-sizing logic to gauge widget (reports by Javier Kohen and
1214 + rewrote inputstr.c, allowing it to enter and display wide-characters.
1215 Some nonprinting characters such as control/B can be edited as well.
1216 + modify timebox to allow user to type numbers into the fields.
1217 + change interfaces of dlg_getc(), mouse_wgetch(), etc., to add
1218 parameter that returns whether the result is really a function-key.
1219 This is needed to work with wide-character curses.
1220 + correct computation of week-number in calendar widget (report by
1222 + updated configure script macros:
1223 + suppress -Winline with gcc 3.3, since it is broken.
1224 + fix caching bug in CF_UTF8_LIB
1225 + improved script for CF_BUNDLED_INTL.
1226 + update config.guess, config.sub
1229 + add null-pointer checks to some malloc calls which were overlooked.
1230 + correct logic in dlg_add_result(), which did not copy content of
1231 non-allocated buffer to the first allocation (report by Daniel
1235 + correct an uninitialized value in dlg_add_result() (Debian #182683).
1238 + corrected print_line(), which subtracted the margin twice from the
1239 right-limit, making a string wrap unnecessarily (Debian #168823).
1240 + correct initial limit-check for arrows in checklist.c, which used
1241 the wrong variable, showing the bottom arrow when it should not
1243 + modify driver to always call show_result(), to simplify updates.
1244 + fix several memory leaks, important if dialog is run with a large
1245 number of widgets (report by albert.veli@telia.com forwarded by
1247 + check if the screen output is actually to the terminal before trying
1248 to suppress xterm's alternate screen mode (see 2000/01/18) (report by
1250 + use dialog_vars.input_result consistently to return the text which is
1251 printed after a widget completes. In many cases, dialog now
1252 allocates enough space to hold the text, rather than use a fixed
1253 buffer. The checklist widget was writing directly to the output to
1254 avoid limits of the fixed buffer.
1255 + modify dialog.c to also write dialog_vars.input_result if the
1256 Help-button was pressed (request by Amon Ott).
1257 + add hu.po (Arpad Biro).
1258 + update fr.po, pt.po, pt_BR.po to add strings for "Help" button (patch
1259 by Frederic L W Meunier).
1260 + fix off-by-one error in menu.c, checklist.c (reported by
1261 Tomasz Wasiak 2002/09/15 and others:
1262 Andrew Gaul 2002/11/12,
1263 Tobias C Rittweiler 2002/11/19,
1264 Arpad Biro 2003/01/21).
1265 + updated configure script, improving checks for ncurses in various
1266 locations, updated NLS script to match lynx. Added --with-curses-dir
1268 > Tobias C Rittweiler:
1269 + make ifdef in mousewget.c consistent with usage in dialog.h
1270 + use beep() rather than flash() in dlg_edit_string(), for consistency
1271 with the other functions.
1272 + change order of buttons so extra button falls between Ok/Cancel.
1273 + fix so "dialog --print-maxsize" exits from curses.
1274 + add --inputmenu option.
1277 + modify checklist.c and menubox.c to treat the extra button like the
1278 "Ok" button by making dialog print the chosen items (request by
1279 Tobias C Rittweiler).
1280 + add examples checklist6 and menubox6 to illustrate the --colors
1282 + implement -colors option, which allows one to highlight words in the
1283 titles and most text areas with color or video attributes (adapted
1284 from patch by Tobias C Rittweiler).
1285 + add examples inputbox4, inputbox5 to illustrate how to use the
1286 --output-fd option, and how to use dialog without any temporary
1288 + add --output-fd option (Debian #153984).
1289 + documented vi-style keys for calendar, textbox widgets in manpage.
1292 + improve mouse handling, e.g., for up/down scrolling in calendar,
1294 + add --extra-button and --extra-label options (adapted from patch
1295 by Tobias C Rittweiler).
1296 + correct displayed cursor position in inputbox when returning to the
1297 input area after traversing the buttons with tabs, etc.
1298 + add left/right arrows for traversal in calendar and timebox dialogs.
1299 + implement two new functions dlg_next_ok_buttonindex() and
1300 dlg_prev_ok_buttonindex(), using these to hide details about the
1301 traversal over buttons in several widgets.
1302 + modify checklist.c and menubox.c to verify if both --help-button and
1303 --item-help are specified before assuming that selecting the help
1304 button should cause the "HELP {item-help}" message to be printed
1305 (reported by Marcel Ritter).
1306 + modify init_dialog() to work around HP's broken tty driver (report by
1307 John Mudd). Specifically, the problem is that when opening /dev/tty
1308 directly (to support the --stdout option), the terminal does not
1309 change to raw mode. The workaround opens /dev/tty only as needed;
1310 the --stdout option does not work on HPUX but otherwise dialog works.
1311 + updated el.po (patch by kromJx <kromJx@crosswinds.net>).
1314 + add --no-collapse option to allow one to retain tabs and repeated
1315 blanks in a message box (request by Roberto Simoni).
1316 + use DLG_EXIT_ESC constant rather than -1's in several places. This
1317 has the effect of changing some exit-with-error cases to denote that
1318 the exit was because ESC was pressed (patch by Diego Alvarez,
1319 forward by Santiago Vila).
1320 + bump package version to 0.9b (with patch-date, as usual).
1321 + add --exit-label option (request by Roberto Simoni).
1322 + updated de.po to correct translation for "Cancel" (from Michael
1323 Piefel, Debian #146402).
1324 + use definitions from autoconf macro AC_HEADER_TIME to ensure that
1325 time() is properly prototyped.
1326 + update pl.po, adding translation for "Help" (patch by Jaroslaw
1327 Swierczynski <swiergot@hacking.pl>).
1328 + update COPYING file, to reflect address change of FSF (reported by
1330 + update some configuration script macros: CF_CHECK_CACHE,
1331 CF_CURSES_CPPFLAGS, CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_MAKEFLAGS.
1332 + correct misuse of "$with_XXX" variables in the configure script,
1333 which prevented configuration against curses library as opposed to
1335 + update config.guess, config.sub
1338 + modify geometry of samples/fselect scripts to allow them to run in
1339 a 24x80 screen (report/patch by Santiago Vila).
1340 + correct exit-code for menubox.c when Cancel is pressed. This was
1341 unintentionally altered when adding --help-button (reported by
1342 Patrick J Volkerding)
1345 + add --timeout option, which forces the program to exit with an error
1346 if no user response is given within the specified number of seconds
1347 (request by <andrew@argoncorp.com>).
1348 + modify calendar widget to allow day/month/year values to default to
1349 the current date (request by <Ron.Perrella@bellsouth.com>).
1350 + modify display of buttons in checklist.c and menubox.c to handle the
1351 case where the button label is empty (Debian #134388).
1352 + extended logic for ok/cancel/help to make this work with checklist
1354 + revert pt_BT.po, apply changes to pt.po (report by Frederic L W
1356 > several changes from Stanislav Ievlev:
1357 + add options --help-button and --help-label to make menubox display a
1358 third button which can be used to return an exit code causing the
1359 calling script to show extended help information.
1360 + use home/end keys in input string-editing, e.g., inputbox.
1361 + add option --max-input to limit length of string returned by inputbox
1362 and other widgets which allow the user to edit a string.
1365 + add --ok-label and --cancel-label options (request by Kyle Sallee).
1366 + correct usage message for --fselect option (reported by Patrick J
1368 + add samples/debian.rc, for comparison with slackware.rc
1369 + corrected samples/slackware.rc, which was just the compiled-in
1370 default values (patch by Patrick J Volkerding).
1371 + modify search rule for rc-file to add a global rc file /etc/dialogrc
1372 (patch by Patrick J Volkerding).
1373 + updated pt_BR.po with modified entries for fselect.c (Frederic L W
1375 + add pl.po (Swiergot <swiergot@l02.ids.czest.pl>).
1378 + modify command-line parsing to allow a "--" argument to act as an
1379 escape, so the next argument is not recognized as an option if it
1380 begins with "--". This is apparently one of popt's undocumented
1381 features, upon which some Debian scripts depend (Debian #116642).
1382 + add da.po (Morten Brix Pedersen <morten@wtf.dk>).
1383 + add an install-strip rule to makefile, changing the normal install
1384 rule to not strip the installed executable (based on discussion with
1386 + initialize my_output variable if user cannot open /dev/tty, e.g., if
1387 su'd to another user (patch by Richard Braakman (<dark@ssh.com>), Debian
1389 + add configure option --with-ncursesw, to allow configure/build with
1390 wide-character version of ncurses.
1393 + add option --ignore, to make dialog be ignore options that it does
1395 + add option --trim, to trim literal newlines and repeated spaces from
1396 text that will be displayed. Add samples/msgbox2, which is the
1397 same as msgbox1, but using --trim (cf: change for Debian #102942).
1398 + minor correction to attributes for buttons.c to use active_attr on
1399 the right-side of a button.
1400 + add a sample dialog rc-file slackware.rc based on diffs in hdasetup
1402 http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/slackware/slackware/source/a/hdsetup/
1403 (discussion with Frederic L W Meunier).
1404 + modify dialog.pl to avoid using a statically-named tempfile, allowing
1405 multiple processes to use this script (patch by James Ranson
1406 (<euclid80@yahoo.com>), Debian #110609).
1407 + correct fprintf() call in j_menu() function, i.e., "--menu" option,
1408 which did not guard against expanding '%' embedded in the parameters
1409 (Stavros Chatzistefanidis <sxatz@yahoo.com>).
1410 + add et.po (Ivar Smolin <okul@trenet.ee>).
1411 + update fr.po (Frederic L W Meunier).
1412 + modify to allow scripts to alter the exit codes, mainly to
1413 distinguish ESC and ERROR exits. This is done by setting a shell
1414 variable such as DIALOG_ESC to a new value (request by Petr Vandrovec
1415 (<vandrove@vc.cvut.cz>), Debian #99264)
1418 + use VPATH in makefile to support build with configure --srcdir, if
1419 the make program supports that. Note that samples/install/makefile
1420 is not generated, due to awkward limitation of autoconf script
1421 (reported by Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>).
1422 + add po/pt_BR.po (Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>).
1423 + correct sense of --enable/--disable shown in configure --help (report
1424 by Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>).
1425 + correct logic for --clear option, broken in 2000/07/02 (fixes Debian
1429 + porting fixes to work on AIX: flush output to work around bug in
1430 curses library, use ./killall in scripts to avoid conflict with
1431 AIX program by that name.
1432 + modify dlg_trim_string() to retain literal newlines if the string
1433 does not contain "\\n" strings, and to retain leading blanks on the
1434 resulting lines, for compatibility with older scripts (Debian
1436 + add charset specification to cs.po
1437 + change dates in CHANGES to consistent format, add el.po for Greek
1438 (patch by kromJx <kromJx@crosswinds.net>).
1439 + eliminate static globals (bss, data) from modules rc, tailbox,
1440 textbox using better parameter-passing convention, and const.
1441 + cleanup temporary files in a few of the sample scripts.
1442 + rewrote tailboxbg using select() rather than fork(), thereby
1443 eliminating lock-files. Only one process should be trying to display
1444 on the screen at any given time.
1445 + add error check to ensure that numeric parameters are really numbers.
1446 + correct off-by-one in error messages reporting too-few or too-many
1447 tokens for a given option (reported by George Mirchev).
1448 + fix typo in manpage, "textboxbg" where "tailboxbg" was meant
1449 (reported by George Mirchev <la@mail.techno-link.com>).
1450 + use DLG_EXIT_xxx symbols consistently for all exit codes.
1451 + updated es.po (patch by Santiago Vila).
1452 + updates for some configure script macros from lynx: CF_MAKEFLAGS,
1453 CF_NCURSES_VERSION, CF_PROG_EXT.
1454 + fixes to compile if <term.h> is included, e.g., when building with
1455 AIX curses (report by Suzi Dowson <Suzi.Dowson@capgemini.co.uk>).
1458 + updated dialog.pot
1459 + modify fselect.c to work with autosize, i.e., given height and width
1460 zero (report by Martin Povolny).
1461 + add a null-pointer check in justify_text(), needed by fselect.c
1462 + add several more options which dialog can safely ignore, from
1464 + refinements for configure macros checking for $CPPFLAGS, from lynx.
1465 + update config.guess, config.sub to match autoconf 2.50
1466 > Martin Povolny <martin@solnet.cz>:
1468 + use nl_langinfo() to customize names for day-of-week, and month
1471 > Vincent Stemen <dialog@AdvancedResearch.org>:
1472 Fixed dialog.c to not pass menu items through dlg_trim_string().
1473 Stripping extra spaces out of the menu items broke some of my
1474 scripts by altering the string that it compared to know which menu
1475 item was selected. There should be no need to do justification on
1476 the menu items, which are always one line, anyway.
1479 > Vincent Stemen <dialog@AdvancedResearch.org>:
1480 + rewrote the text justification code to be able to have preformatted
1481 text in the prompts with extra spaces like the older versions of
1482 dialog. If there are "\n" strings in the text, then extra spaces are
1483 preserved. Lines are always wrapped on word boundaries.
1484 + fixed --cr-wrap to break lines on '\n' (newline) characters and not
1485 add an extra line at the top and bottom of the text. It now works
1486 as the manual says it should.
1487 + it is no longer necessary to use "\n\" at the end of lines to escape
1488 the '\n' character. "\n" now works. However, the old way, "\n\"
1490 + the fixes involved the following changes:
1491 - rewrote dlg_trim_string() to recognize preformatted text (know
1492 when not to strip extra spaces) and to pay attention to --cr-wrap.
1493 - rewrote justify_text() which now calls a new function in util.c,
1494 print_line(), to print each line and end it on a word boundary.
1495 - modified real_auto_size() to call a new function
1496 auto_size_preformated() to calculate the box size for preformatted
1498 - removed skip_blanks() and skip_text() since they are not used by
1499 the new justify_text().
1500 - modified dialog.c to not call dlg_trim_string() on title strings
1501 so that titles retain their spaces.
1502 + modified the following demo files in the sample directory:
1504 changed all "\n\" strings to "\n" to demonstrate the extra
1505 backslash is no longer needed.
1507 removed all the "\n\" strings from the end of the lines to
1508 properly demonstrate --cr-wrap.
1510 this sample was using "--aspect 9 --cr-wrap". Rewrote it to
1511 properly demonstrate --aspect. 9 is already dialog's default
1512 aspect ratio. It now creates several dialogs in sequence,
1513 demonstrating aspect ratios of 9, 12 and 6 and properly
1514 demonstrates --cr-wrap.
1515 + made the following changes to the manual (dialog.1).
1516 - rewrote the description of --aspect to be more understandable.
1517 - rewrote the description of --cr-wrap to be more correct and more
1518 detailed. It did say, "Otherwise, the text for each dialog will
1519 display on a single line.", which is not correct. It wraps the
1520 text to fit in the box.
1522 + use logic from menubox dialog in checklist to handle autosizing when
1523 list height is given as zero (fixes problem reported by Eric Veltman
1524 <eveltman@baan.nl>).
1525 + modify checklist and menubox dialogs to check for too-wide data, and
1526 truncate one or both of the name and text fields to fit (also
1527 reported by Eric Veltman).
1528 + corrected a few items from Vincent's patch:
1529 - use C89-style comments rather than C++
1530 - restore logic in justify_text() which checks for win==0, needed to
1531 work with standard curses implementations other than ncurses.
1532 The first call on justify_text() passes a null pointer as a flag
1533 to indicate that checking should be done, but no screen updates.
1534 - avoid modifying the buffer in decode_percent(), otherwise a message
1535 containing a space or newline would be truncated at the whitespace.
1536 - modify dlg_button_x_step() and dlg_button_layout() slightly to
1537 work with altered print_autowrap(), etc.
1538 + fixes to build/work with SunOS 4.x 5lib curses
1541 + fix a memory leak in mouse_region().
1542 + simplify handling of optional parameters with new functions
1543 optional_str() and optional_num().
1544 + add calendar and timebox dialogs (compatible with Xdialog).
1545 + correct typo in fallback definition for getparyx, and remove void
1546 cast for mouse_open and mouse_close which prevented build with
1547 Sun's Solaris compiler.
1548 + rename --enable-lxdialog configure option to --enable-Xdialog
1549 + modify CF_NCURSES_CPPFLAGS macro to match more variations of ncurses
1551 + update config.guess, config.sub
1552 + modify some configure script macros to avoid problems with buggy
1553 autoconf 2.49c which breaks changequote().
1556 + small fix to revised real_auto_size() and justify_text() to avoid
1557 adding origin to box-width, which broke samples/wheel.
1558 + apply 1999/12/25 tempfile change to wheel and copismall samples.
1559 + add sample script for tailboxbg.
1560 + revised lock-file management to better ensure that locks are actually
1561 created by the tailbox subprocess(es).
1562 + correct hardcoded signal 15 in tailbox to SIGHUP to match
1563 documentation. Signal 15 is usually SIGTERM, which cannot be caught.
1564 + correct off-by-one comparison of return-value for arg_rest() which
1566 dialog --gauge test 10 50
1567 dump core because it expected a 4th parameter (fixes Debian #80641).
1568 + resync config.sub, config.guess from
1569 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/config/ (which finally have
1570 cases for OS/2 EMX), minor tweaks to related configure script macros.
1573 + restore treatment of predefined height/width in real_auto_size()
1574 which was lost in 2000/12/12 rewrite (report by Raphael Halimi
1575 <raphaelh@easynet.fr>).
1576 + updates for configure script macros AM_PATH_PROG_WITH_TEST,
1577 CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_LIB_PREFIX, CF_PROG_EXT for $PATHSEP and $CFLAGS
1581 + correct change for create_lock(), which resulted in an infinite loop
1582 (patch by Chris Butler, <chrisb@debian.org>).
1585 + rewrote print_autowrap() and real_auto_size() to share common code
1586 justify_text(), which now does text flow even when the string
1587 contains newlines (fixes Debian #77199).
1588 + improve create_lock() function using open() with O_EXCL rather than
1589 fopen() (patch by Matt Kraai (<kraai@debian.org>), Debian #78951).
1590 + correct description of --fselect in man page (patch by Tomas Pospisek
1591 (<tpo@spin.ch>), Debian #77200).
1592 + add --no-cancel as alias for --nocancel for compatibility with
1593 Xdialog (report by Luis E Limon <luisl@abriasoft.com>).
1596 + some lint fixes using lclint (mostly void-casts, but some
1597 sign-extension fixes e.g., for ctype.h macros, and loop in
1598 dlg_char_to_button()).
1599 + modified to build/run on OS/2 EMX with ncurses.
1600 + minor changes to po/*.po (trim trailing blanks, provide explicit
1601 translation for "OK"), to work with Solaris gettext.
1602 + modified to allow this to build with archaic version (1.8.6)
1603 of ncurses on FreeBSD 3.1 (does not run).
1604 + update config.guess, config.sub from subversions.gnu.org
1607 + use new function sub_window() to check success/failure of calls to
1608 subwin(), printing an error message if it fails (fixes Debian #74903).
1609 + use combination of isatty/ttyname to look for workable tty device
1610 on systems which have no /dev/tty, e.g., BeOS.
1613 + change exiterr() to use stdarg.h, make some messages easier to
1615 + add dialog_clear()
1616 + make samples/install/setup build.
1617 + implemented mouse support for buttons, e.g., in yesno dialog using
1618 ncurses (the gpm support no longer works, but is useful for reference)
1619 + add a configure check for chtype.
1620 + updates for configure script macros (CF_BUNDLED_INTL, CF_CURSES_LIBS,
1621 CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_GCC_WARNINGS, CF_INCLUDE_DIRS), and scripts
1622 config.guess, config.sub
1623 + cleanup of item-help change, integrate with checklist and radiobox.
1624 + add ja.po, from Hirofumi Takeda <takepin@turbolinux.co.jp>.
1625 > patch by Marco Mariani <marcom@sferacarta.com>
1626 + add --item-help option, which makes menubox data interpreted as
1627 3 columns rather than 2. The third column is displayed on the
1628 last line of the screen as a help/status message for the currently
1631 + change TAG_KEY_HL to FALSE, making unselected items in checklist
1632 easier to read on Linux console.
1635 + change real_auto_size() to allow it to be used for dialogs that have
1636 no prompt, e.g., fselect. Also, rather than requiring both height
1637 and width to be given as -1 for maximizing the dialog, allow either
1639 + increase minimum height needed for autosized yesno dialog.
1640 + add --version as an alias for --print-version.
1641 + fix for build on Solaris without NLS (cannot redefine 'gettext()').
1642 + add fselect dialog (compatible with Xdialog).
1643 + add --enable-lxdialog configure option.
1644 + use new configure macro CF_ARG_MSG_ENABLE to show progress with
1645 enable/disable switches.
1648 + implement --stdout and --stderr options as in Xdialog.
1649 + move logic that translates "\\n" into '\n' into main program to
1650 simplify logic that formats text.
1651 + make ifdef's for rc-file not specific to ncurses.
1652 + correct logic making percent parameter of gauge optional.
1655 + add alternate test-script for gauge, adapted from Xdialog.
1656 + modify gauge to make optional a percentage which was read at the
1657 beginning of the XXX-delimited message text, since clones of dialog
1658 are written to assume this is text. If the line is not a simple
1659 integer, dialog will treat it as text.
1660 + make the percent parameter of gauge optional, as in Xdialog.
1661 + undo one use of CharOf() in guage.c, an error.
1662 + fix configure macro AM_WITH_NLS to refrain from attempting to make a
1663 symbolic link into/libintl.h if we are not using the bundled intl
1664 directory from gettext (reported by Julian Coleman
1665 <J.D.Coleman@newcastle.ac.uk>).
1666 + add ru.po, from Michael Sobolev <mss@transas.com>
1667 + updates for config.guess, config.sub from tin.
1668 + updates for configure script macros: CF_MATH_LIB (improperly nested
1669 brackets/parenthesis) and CF_XOPEN_CURSES (make include of
1670 <*curses.h> depend on configure tests).
1673 + repaint screen when a control/L is pressed.
1674 + apply CharOf() macro to avoid sign-extension on calls to waddch(),
1675 fixes a problem with accented characters (reported by Santiago Vila).
1676 + add es.po, from Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>
1679 + modified to use gettext (configure option --enable-nls). This uses
1680 gettext 0.10.35, which must be previously installed. (It can also
1681 use an included intl library, but I consider that to be a waste of
1683 + remove code in checklist/radiobox, menubox that try to use
1684 abbreviations for the OK/Cancel buttons since those conflict with the
1685 check for abbreviations in list entries, which are more useful.
1686 + moved padding of button labels out of string literals, into the
1687 logic of dlg_draw_buttons().
1688 + resync/update with configure macros CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_FIND_LIBRARY,
1689 CF_HEADER_PATH, CF_LIBRARY_PATH and CF_NCURSES_LIBS, as well as
1690 mkdirs.sh and config.guess.
1693 + add --default-item option, for menubox to set the default selection
1694 (fixes Debian #49796).
1695 + add sample scripts for --nocancel and --fb options with inputbox.
1696 + modify inputbox* sample scripts to show application errors, if any.
1697 + add --nocancel option, and ignore --noitem, --fb, --fullbutton, to
1698 make this compatible with whiptail scripts. (whiptail does not
1699 handle many dialog scripts however).
1700 + modify checklist/radiobox to handle home, end, nextpage, prevpage
1701 keys, as well as make the abbreviation search work for the whole
1702 list, not only the current page.
1703 + treat KEY_LL the same as KEY_END in checklist and textbox.
1704 + add logic for KEY_BTAB.
1705 + use new function dlg_draw_buttons() to better manage the layout of
1706 yes/no/ok/cancel buttons.
1707 + another pass of cleanup of dialog.c, makes it use a single table for
1708 lookup of option names and help-message. Eliminated numerous
1709 adjustments to 'offset' variable.
1710 + on initialization, check if standard input is from a terminal. If
1711 not, open /dev/tty (fixes Debian #57771)
1714 + implement inline editing in textbox.c search dialog.
1715 + revise inputbox.c, allowing inline editing with arrow-keys. removed
1716 redundant logic in that module.
1717 + correct a typo that prevented rc-file configuration from building.
1718 + correct ifdef's to compile/run if the curses implementation does not
1722 + improve test-case for gauge.
1723 + change gauge.c to show progress in reverse-video, add a check for
1724 end-of-file in the loop for reading new messages.
1725 + use curses whline() function to simplify print_arrows() logic in
1726 checklist.c and menubox.c
1727 + use curses beep() function rather than hardcoded strings.
1728 + correct several compiler warnings for gcc -pedantic (mismatch of
1729 const, signed/unsigned).
1730 + modify exiterr() to avoid possible expansion of '%'.
1731 + change CF_MATH_LIB configure macro to allow specifying a particular
1732 test-function. For dialog, this should be sqrt(). The macro was
1733 originally written for ncurses, which needs sin(). However, that is
1734 a builtin function on the m68k port (reported by Roman Hodek
1735 <Roman.Hodek@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>, this fixes Debian #55553).
1738 + update manpage (Debian #25648).
1739 + modify configure test for math library to avoid using a constant
1740 parameter to the test function, lest gcc optimize the call away
1741 (fixes Debian #55553).
1742 + restructure help-message so actual problem is indicated. The original
1743 help-message is shown if no parameters are given, or if the --help
1744 option is specified alone.
1745 + suppress xterm's alternate screen mode by sending an exit_ca_mode
1746 after initscr if the terminal looks like xterm, e.g., has key_mouse
1747 defined, and has private-mode escapes in both enter_ca_mode and
1748 exit_ca_mode (fixes Debian #55181).
1749 + change yellow lettering on white to blue on white, since it offers
1750 better contrast (fixes Debian #51196).
1751 + use napms() rather than sleep().
1752 + some cleanup/simplification of main program. Indent'd dialog.c and
1754 + eliminate several places where repeated options are treated as
1755 an error, since they are really executed once anyway.
1758 + remove pre-autoconf Makefile
1759 + remove sleep's from a few of the sample scripts, which left users
1760 thinking that dialog was slow to complete an action.
1761 + rewrote infobox sample script, using dialog's --sleep option and
1762 a loop in the script.
1763 + change 'ch' variable in tailbox.c to an integer, because it is
1764 compared against EOF (fixes Debian #53157).
1765 + corrected mandir variable in makefile.in (reported by Santiago Vila).
1766 + small changes to sample scripts, from Debian: rename "guage" script
1767 to "gauge", change path to copy of GPL used in textbox.
1768 + add uninstall rule to makefile.in, fixed some dependencies so
1769 "make install" works without first doing "make all".
1772 + use more portable scheme for tempfile generation in samples.
1773 + add a configure script, prefer to not use the original Makefile
1774 because it works only with GNU make.
1775 + correct prototype of 'main()', which misused const.
1776 + modify guage.c to use fgets() rather than gets().
1777 + merge changes from Debian package maintainer
1778 Santiago Vila <sanvila@ctv.es>:
1781 + add a password dialog box.
1782 + implement "--defaultno" option to specify if the default for
1783 the yes/no box is "No".
1785 + modify input.c to clear the input field to the right of the
1786 given string (unclear: this seems redundant, since the
1787 dialog is drawn in a new window).
1789 + check for list_height less than one in checklist.c
1791 + use function wscrl() in preference to scroll() in checklist.c
1792 and menubox.c (unclear: in ncurses, scroll() is a macro that
1794 + remove the "-I/usr/include/ncurses" option from Makefile
1795 since Debian does not install ncurses' header files into
1798 + simplify menubox.c using new functions print_arrows() and
1800 + add logic to handle KEY_NPAGE and KEY_PPAGE.
1801 + change sample scripts to use Debian tempfile utility rather
1802 than putting files into /tmp.
1803 + change sample scripts to use 'dialog' from user's path rather
1804 than in the parent directory as in the build directory.
1805 + use the system copy of GPL rather than that in the build
1806 directory as an example for the textbox script.
1809 + fix some gcc warnings about ambiguous use of "else"
1812 + cleaned up some of the redundant code with new functions:
1819 + modified msgbox.c and yesno.c to work with the KEY_RESIZE sigwinch
1820 handling in ncurses 4.2
1822 + corrected spelling of "gauge"
1824 The relevant portions of the Debian change log for the original version
1825 (dialog-0.9a-12) are abstracted here, omitting details of their packaging:
1829 + Replaced guage.c by the one in dialog 0.6z, which is known to work.
1830 Fixes Bug #18284: unstable dialog.
1834 + dialog.c: dialog_input_result printed with "%s" format. This was
1835 Bug #9913, fixed by Bill Mitchell, but the change was lost.
1836 + Pristine source, .depend is not removed in clean target. Instead, it
1837 is made zero lenght (otherwise it would not work *without* fakeroot).
1838 + Added '^U' support in input box (Bug #9915, patch by joey@debian.org).
1839 + Wrote patch to fix core-dumping problem (Bug #13170). Sven Rudolph
1840 <sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de>: