1 -- $Id: CHANGES,v 1.619 2018/06/21 09:19:45 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 + improve file-offset computation in textbox.c (Werner Fink).
9 + fix an overlooked case with real_auto_size() to maximize when
10 height or width is given as -1.
11 + build-fixes for configure options "--disable-Xdialog2" and
13 + add traces for each widget to show its parameters.
14 + modify color scheme for mixedgauge to use the dialog window colors,
16 + fix a too-small malloc in the mixedgauge widget.
17 + fix a use-after-free in dlg_remove_callback().
18 + improve handling of SIGWINCH for several widgets (Debian #865840).
19 + menubox, the point of the Debian report was that it would be nice
20 to increase the window size if the terminal size increases. Did
21 that as a special case less problematic than decreasing the
22 terminal size. Added samples/menubox11 to demonstrate by
23 comparison with menubox10 a problem with debconf which puts extra
24 newlines in the caption that interfere with autowrap.
25 + progressbox and derived prgbox, programbox, now handle resizing.
26 + yesno, window was cleared
27 + add dlg_ttysize() to support new options, allowing scripts to obtain
28 some text-formatting details without initializing the terminal.
29 + add options --print-text-only, and --print-text-size for scripts that
30 adjust the widget size according to how the captions are formatted.
32 + add demo.pl, to demonstrate the functions
33 + quote/escape string parameters passed to dialog.
34 + ensure all "integer" parameters are really integers.
35 + use actual screensize for list captions rather than assuming 24
37 + when trimming blanks, treat unconverted tabs the same as spaces.
38 + correct parameter to test when trimming blanks from the script,
39 e.g., with "--trim" (report by Jarno Suni).
40 + improve documentation of the various whitespace-filtering options,
41 to show which take precedence (Debian #867536, cf: Debian #102942).
42 + modify msgbox.c, yesno.c to bind SCROLLKEY_BINDINGS before
43 TRAVERSE_BINDINGS so that up/down arrow will by default scroll the
44 message up/down rather than be aliases for tab-traversal (report by
46 + modify dump_one_binding() to show when a binding is overridden.
47 + improve format of trace-file, making comment-syntax consistent,
48 as well as showing argv-splitting as a series of comments.
49 + modify dlg_string_to_argv() to change the quoting behavior to be
50 more consistent with shell behavior (patch by Denilson Sa Maia).
51 + modify dlg_getc() to return ESC when a timeout expires, notifying
52 callers that a quit occurred rather than exiting the application
53 (suggested by Rodrigo Freitas).
54 + modify handle_inputs() to ensure cursor-visibility is restored when
55 there is no input character available (report by Guillaume Vareille).
56 + improve comment in manual page regarding which widgets can use the
57 "--help-button" (prompted by discussion with Csanyi Pal).
58 + add a check for valid object pointer in tailbox's main loop since
59 the getc-callback may have been freed within ui_getc.c (report by
61 + improved configure macros for ncurses: CF_GNU_SOURCE, CF_SHARED_OPTS,
62 CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_CURSES_FUNCS, CF_NCURSES_CONFIG
63 + improved configure script checks for groff vs man2html:
64 CF_PROG_GROFF and CF_WITH_MAN2HTML
65 + build-fix from lynx for AM_WITH_NLS configure macro
66 + update config.guess, config.sub
69 + update ftp url in test-packages.
70 + modify test-packages to use recommended compiler/linker flags.
71 + improved configure macros AM_WITH_NLS, CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS,
72 CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_NCURSES_CONFIG, CF_SHARED_OPTS, CF_WITH_LIBTOOL,
74 + update config.guess, config.sub
77 + improved configure macros CF_ADD_CFLAGS, CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS, and
79 + updated hu.po and tr.po from
80 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
81 + update config.guess, config.sub
84 + use DLG_TRACE macro consistently to make "--disable-trace" configure
86 + modify buildlist widget to support option "--reorder" for to allow
87 user to reorder the data based on the sequence of selections
88 (discussion with Paraic O'Ceallaigh).
89 + fill background color on unused parts of buildlist.
90 + fix a minor error in buildlist which let pageup switch columns.
91 + change several calls to dlg_trace_msg to prefix with "#" to make
92 the trace logs more consistent for parsing.
93 + add samples/run_test.sh
94 + further improve performance with very long command-lines by changes
96 + modify dlg_string_to_argv() to convert escaped double-quotes to
97 plain double-quotes when within a double-quoted string.
98 + modify makefile to apply CFLAGS to linking
99 + modify dlg_string_to_argv() to ignore escaped newlines except when
100 quoted, fixing a problem with samples/checklist9.
101 + interpret $DIALOGOPTS before expanding "--file", etc., to allow
102 the environment variable to turn on tracing in that process.
103 + improve performance when processing very long command lines, e.g.,
104 using "--file" by changing dialog_opts[] to an array of pointers to
105 the expanded argv[] (discussion with Lars Tauber).
106 + modified autoconf macros
107 + CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS amend the last change to move only the
108 preprocessor, optimization and warning flags to CPPFLAGS and
109 CFLAGS, leaving the residue in CC. That happens to work for gcc's
110 various "model" options, but may require tuning for other compilers
111 + CF_LARGEFILE workaround for clang exit-code vs warnings
112 + CF_MATH_LIB quiet strict gcc warning
113 + CF_WITH_LIBTOOL fix a few places in configure/build scripts where
114 DESTDIR and rpath were combined
115 + CF_XOPEN_SOURCE add "uclinux" to list of Linux's
116 + update config.guess, config.sub
119 + added fur.po (Friulian) from
120 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
123 + improve parsing and trace for "bindkey", to convert space to/from
124 "\s", as well as handle octal escapes for single byte characters.
125 + change explicit checks for space character used for select or toggle
126 to make this rebindable to "TOGGLE" (prompted by discussion with
128 + add default bindings for cursor left/right to formbox. The cursor
129 left/right cases were replaced with rebindable symbols in 2005/12/07
130 without providing these keys as default values (report/patch by
132 + modified autoconf macros
133 + CF_PROG_LINT add cpplint to programs to use; drop ad hoc tdlint and
135 + CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS don't limit the check to -I, -U and -D options,
136 since the added options can include various compiler options before
137 and after preprocessor options.
138 + CF_GNU_SOURCE recent glibc (Debian 2.23-4 for example) has
139 misordered ifdef/checks for new symbol _DEFAULT_SOURCE, producing
140 warning messages when only _GNU_SOURCE is defined. Add a followup
141 check to define _DEFAULT_SOURCE.
142 + CF_XOPEN_SOURCE use _GNU_SOURCE for cygwin headers, tested with
143 cygwin 2.3, 2.5 (patch by Corinna Vinschen).
144 + mention --no-collapse option in manual page description of
145 --tab-correct option.
146 + update config.guess, config.sub
149 + fix a special case in drawing shadow on a line-drawing cell where the
150 alternate-character set flag was lost (report by Martin Kravec).
151 + fix a regression from 2015/05/13 changes for escaping; it is
152 necessary to retain backslashes within quotes to make "\Z" escapes
153 work (report by Marcin Krol).
154 + fix test package for RPMs; changes in 2015 omitted symbolic links
156 + fix typo in help message for "--buildlist" (report by Rihards Olups).
157 + modified autoconf macros
158 + CF_PROG_AR, CF_AR_FLAGS added to improve check for archive tool.
159 + CF_LD_RPATH_OPT, change FreeBSD to use -Wl,-rpath rather than
160 -rpath option. According to FreeBSD #178732, either works since
161 FreeBSD 4.x; however scons does not accept anything except the
163 + CF_WITH_NCURSES_ETC, change from ncurses to check for pthreads
167 + modify editbox widget to add a trailing newline if the text has none
168 to ensure the last line is not ignored (report by Florent Rougon).
169 + change mouse initialization to look for button-presses rather than
170 button-clicks, for better response.
171 + modify dump_curses_key() to show mouse-coding in readable form.
172 + correct mapping of mouse-clicks on the day-grid in calendar widget
173 when "--week-start" is used to set the start of the week (report by
175 > integrated changes from Stefan Vogtner:
176 + use Gregorian algorithm for leap year
177 + use mktime if available; calendar was written just as it became
180 2016/01/26 - release 1.3
181 + correct --infobox documentation, which said it shows an OK button.
182 + fix a couple of place in test-scripts which referred to $SIG_TRAP
183 rather than $SIG_QUIT
184 + reorganize dialog.3, to use subsections for generating navigation
186 + add "--week-start" option for calendar widget (prompted by discussion
187 with Stefan Vogtner).
188 + add a limit-check in editbox.c to ensure that mouse-clicks outside
189 the filled-in text area do not access past the end of the array
190 (report by Stefan Vogtner).
191 + update configure macros from ncurses changes.
192 + update config.guess, config.sub
195 + decrease table value for minimum number of arguments for the widgets
196 which use --no-items option (report by Raven Singularity).
197 + update configure macros:
198 + use $SHELL consistently, deprecate non-POSIX shell
199 + PKG_CONFIG may simply be unset - fix
200 + add option to allow changing ABI version, from ncurses6.
203 + fixes for two autoconf macros, CF_ADD_INCDIR and CF_NCURSES_CONFIG
204 from work on ncurses.
205 + build-fix for NetBSD curses (patch by Matthias Scheler).
208 + add configure option --with-install-prefix, like ncurses.
209 + add --with-screen and related configure options from ncurses-examples
210 to allow building with ncurses6 test-packages.
211 + update configure macros for improved coding style from lynx changes.
213 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
214 + update config.guess, config.sub
215 > patches by Florent Rougon:
216 + fix two bugs in the "--file" option.
217 + When the number of arguments read from the included file is 0, the
218 code used to just skip over '--file' and its argument instead of
219 removing them from the argument list, causing "Error: Unknown
220 option --file" later on.
221 + In the alternative case (at least one argument read from the file),
222 the previous code used to do '--j;' in order to "force rescan" of
223 the inserted arguments. However, control then flowed to outer
224 blocks where a '++j;' counteracted this measure, causing "Error:
225 Unknown option --msgbox" (for instance) later on.
226 + modify escaping in argv.c to be more uniform, whether or not the
227 backslash is found within a parameter.
230 + modify gauge widget to keep from erasing a second gauge widget, e.g.,
231 via the "--and-widget" option. This is a cosmetic change to match
232 behavior of dialog 1.0 (report by Jason Orendorf).
233 + add configure option "--with-man2html"
234 + add configure options for versioned symbols, from ongoing work on
236 + update configure macros, e.g., for shared libraries
239 + suppress highlighting of character which denotes an abbreviation or
240 shortcut for the OK/Cancel and other buttons for these widgets, which
241 use abbreviations for the list shown on the screen: buildlist,
242 checklist/radiobox, menubox, treeview (Debian #775295).
243 + add grid up/left and down/right bindings in editbox.c as synonyms for
244 field prev and next, respectively when handling the OK/Cancel buttons
248 + correct malloc-size for change to prgbox.
251 + fixes to make "-c" option work when passing command to shell for the
252 prgbox widget, for example in samples/prgbox2 (report by Korantin
256 + fix an out-of-bounds array index in buildlist widget (report by
260 + add configure check for groff, needed for html/ps/pdf output.
261 + update configure-script macros:
262 + CF_ACVERSION_CHECK - work around another gratuitous incompatibility
264 + CF_ADD_CFLAGS - workaround for ash-shell, e.g., with Minix
265 + CF_ADD_LIBS - filter out duplicates
266 + CF_CURSES_FUNCS - improve workaround for weak-linkage, seems to fix
267 tests with NetBSD 6.1
268 + CF_INTEL_COMPILER - clean up the -no-gcc option which was leftover
270 + CF_LIB_SUFFIX - change suffix for AIX shared libraries to ".so".
271 + CF_MAKEFLAGS - workaround for GNU make 4.0 incompatibility with
273 + CF_XOPEN_SOURCE - add cases for Minix, UnixWare and improve the
274 workaround for Solaris.
275 + improve comparison in compare_cache() function, in case difference
276 between pointers does not fit in int's.
277 + updated de.po, es.po, hu.po, lv.po from
278 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
279 + update config.guess, config.sub
282 + cleanup of manpages prompted by Gislason's comments.
283 + several changes to manpages to improve presentation (patches by
284 Bjarni I. Gislason, Debian #739180, Debian #739181)
285 + use "\/" when transitioning from italic to normal font
286 + correct an instance of "e.g,."
287 + use "\e" rather than "\\" to present a literal "\"
288 + improve formatting of table header
289 + remove some excess space-characters
290 + change a reference 0-9 to use "through" as the connector
291 + use "\&" to separate "." from a space to make the space shorter
292 + change a list's TP macro parameters to make the hanging text align
293 better with the adjacent paragraph
294 + add comma in a few places before "and" in a list
295 + separate units from numbers with a nonfillable space
296 + replace "-" with en-dash in a few places
297 + corrected argument indices after "--args" and "--file" to rescan the
298 argument list after removing/substituting those options.
299 + fix loops for "--file" option to handle cases with zero or no tokens at
300 all substituted (Redhat #1066168).
302 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
305 + improve calculation for amount to scroll in programbox when an "Ok"
306 button might obscure part of the data (report by Florent Rougon).
307 + modify program to permit --separate-output to be used with buildlist
308 and treeview widgets (report by Florent Rougon).
309 + add list-height parameter to manpage description of --buildlist
310 (report by Florent Rougon).
311 + minor fixes to dialog.1 manpage; the reported problem was actually
312 fixed in 20120703 (Debian #726233, patch by Bjarni Ingi Gislason).
313 + add a "Hello World" example to dialog.3 manpage (prompted by
314 discussions with Dustin Oprea, Kevin Ingwersen).
315 + correct comparison in dlg_lookup_key() so that using "bindkey" with
316 a "*" wildcard parameter works as documented (report by Stewart
318 + updated configure macros, fixes for clang and mingw.
319 + update config.guess, config.sub
322 + fix a regression in gauge widget from 2013/09/28 changes;
323 dlg_reallocate_gauge() failed when no --title option was given
324 (report by Tritonas Insomnia).
327 + fix samples/inputbox6-utf8, which had depended unnecessarily on bash.
328 + improve memory caching for wide-character manipulation in gauge
329 widget (report by Devin Teske).
330 + add dlg_reallocate_gauge (discussion with Devin Teske).
331 + updated configure macros to use msys changes from ncurses.
332 + update config.guess, config.sub
335 + modify makefile rule to make the ".png" filenames created by groff
337 + add option --help-tags to allow scripts to get the item's tag field
338 consistently from help- and help-item button results rather than
339 getting the item's text for the latter (discussion with Florent
341 + correct manpage discussion of DIALOG_ITEM_HELP versus --item-help,
342 as well as --help-button return status (report by Florent Rougon).
343 + correct limit used for --hline option (report by Devin Teske,
345 + do not print empty "[]" if a --hline option was given with an empty
346 value (report by Devin Teske).
347 + miscellaneous configure script fixes/updates. In particular, add
348 option --with-shared which builds shared libraries without a libtool
350 + add FreeBSD port-files for test-builds.
351 + update lt.po, add fa.po from
352 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
353 + update config.guess, config.sub
356 + modify ifdef in arrows.c to work around packages which use the
357 wide-character ncursesw headers with the ncurses library (report
359 + correct workaround for xterm alternate-screen to work with/without
360 the fix made in ncurses that makes putp() always write to the
361 standard output (Debian #708829).
362 + improve limit-checks for checklist, in case the dialog is resized
363 (report by Ilya A Arkhipov).
364 + add --last-key option (adapted from patch by Jordi Pujol, Debian
368 + update zh_TW.po, add an.po from
369 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
371 2012/12/30 - release 1.2
372 + improve some older changelog entries to help with HTML'izing content.
373 + various fixes/improvments for scrollbar appearance.
374 + add mappings for some equivalent options provided by whiptail;
375 add configure option --disable-whiptail to allow suppressing these.
376 + add configure option --disable-Xdialog2 to allow suppressing the
377 newer features, i.e., for cdialog 1.2
378 + add --no-items option, for consistency.
379 + add --no-tags option, like Xdialog.
380 + add buildlist, rangebox and treeview dialogs, like Xdialog.
381 + remove obsolete workaround for ncurses 4.2 scrolling in checklist
383 + improve dialog_helpfile() by preventing it from showing extra buttons
384 (suggested by xDog Walker).
385 + correct logic in formbox's scroll_next() function (report by xDog
387 + fix a case with inputbox widget where preset input text is not shown
388 until moving the cursor within the text (report by xDog Walker).
389 + handle SIGCHLD in dialog_prgbox() to eliminate defunct processes
390 (report by xDog Walker).
391 + improve the way "hotkeys" are assigned to widget buttons by checking
392 if a given key has already been used in the row of buttons (Debian
394 + amend fix for --trace parsing from 2012/07/03, which sometimes
395 skipped a parameter (report by xDog Walker).
396 + drop copismall and install files from samples, which were essentially
398 + correct secondary border colors in samples/slackware.rc and
400 + update gl.po, add ia.po from
401 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
402 + fix various issues reported by coverity scan.
403 + miscellaneous configure script fixes/updates:
404 + require autoconf 2.52+patches
405 + support --datarootdir option
406 + check for clang compiler
407 + check for tinfo library when looking for ncurses
408 + add 3rd parameter to AC_DEFINE for autoheader
409 + remove unused macros from aclocal.m4
410 + update config.guess, config.sub
413 + modify samples/setup-tempfile to work with Tru64's shell.
414 + modify inputmenu sample scripts to make them more portable:
415 + use "id" rather than "$GROUPS", use sed to work with Solaris.
416 + use sed to split-up the rename results to work with HPUX.
417 + fix regression in msgbox (ArchLinux #30574)
420 + modify prgbox widget to work with --extra-button, etc.
421 + add case values to several widgets to allow for mouse-clicks with
422 "--extra-button" and "--help-button" additions.
423 + correct timebox widget's exit code for "--extra-button" when handing
425 + modify msgbox widget to honor "--extra-button".
426 + corrected processing of "--trace" option, which did not update the
427 index into command-line to point past its value.
428 + add a check in dialog program for valid characters used in option,
429 e.g., to generate an error if a script attempts to add option value
430 using "=" rather than with whitespace.
431 + add new command-line option --default-button and library function
432 dlg_default_button() to retrieve the value set by the option
433 to provide a way to set the default button directly rather than
434 by combining --nook, etc. (patch by Zoltan Kelemen).
435 + amend include of unctrl.h to apply only to the case where curses.h
436 is included, to avoid conflict of ncurses' unctrl.h with a system
437 implementation (report by Martin Roedlach)
438 + add limit-check to dlg_toupper() in non-wide curses mode to work
439 when non-character values such as arrow-key codes are passed to
440 it (patch by Zoltan Kelemen).
441 + override timeout value, e.g., as set via --timeout command-line
442 option in pause widget because that interferes with pause's behavior
443 (report by Jan Spitalnik).
444 + modify samples/inputmenu* to allow ":" in renamed text (report by
446 + modify double-quoting to make it more consistent, i.e., checklist
447 output is quoted only when needed. This fixes the case where
448 single-quotes were used whether or not needed, but also modifies
449 older checklist behavior for double-quoting which always added those
451 + correct exit-code used in inputmenu for "rename" button (Debian
452 #673041, forwarded from Ubuntu #333909, patch by Lebedev Vadim).
453 + update el.po and hr.po from
454 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
455 + use checkbashisms to clean up sample scripts.
458 + modify menubox.c to use the same improvement as in checklist.c
459 + improve auto width computation for checklist widget by using
460 dlg_calc_list_width as in the non-auto case (Edho Arief).
461 + eliminate some bashisms in the sample scripts (Pedro Giffuni).
462 + makefile fixes from FreeBSD ports (Li-Wen Hsu):
463 + make --with-package option of configure script work.
464 + get LIBTOOL_VERSION from configure script, needed by
465 ${LIBTOOL_VERSION} in LIBTOOL_CREATE (LIB_CREATE in configure and
467 + update cs.po and sr.po from
468 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
469 + updated configure script macros, improving CF_XOPEN_SOURCE among
473 + fix --analyze warnings for clang versions 2.8, 2.9.
474 + add configure check for lint program.
475 + add check in dlg_getc() in case its window is freed as a side effect
476 of removing callbacks.
477 + fix logic in freeing subwindows (report by xDog Walker).
478 + fix a regression in logic distinguishing between inputmenu and menu
479 widgets (report by xDog Walker).
480 + minor fixes to library manpage.
483 + modify header-sh.in to work around limit on sed script length on
485 + add a special case of parameter parsing for "--trace" to the
486 initialization done before calling init_dialog(), to allow users to
487 capture the initial state of the parameter list before any options
488 are processed and removed. This is only done if "--trace" is the
489 first option, otherwise it is handled in the common options as before
490 (report by xDog Walker).
491 + modify samples/testdata-8bit, discarding $1 from the parameter list
492 if it was used, so that the source'ing scripts can consistently use
493 "$@" to insert parameters before the widget, e.g., as an alternative
494 to using $DIALOGOPTS (report by xDog Walker).
495 + modify treatment of function pointers in menubox.c, make
496 dlg_renamed_menutext() and dlg_dummy_menutext() visible to library
497 users (request by xDog Walker).
498 + add dlg_count_real_columns(), use to modify centering for "--hline"
499 text to account for "\Z"s (report by xDog Walker).
500 + improve check in dlg_draw_arrows2() for conflict between the window
501 title and up-arrow marker to take into account that the given window
502 may not be the top-level window of the widget.
503 + change width of page up/down mouse areas in fselect panes to use the
504 full width of the panes rather than only the portion from the left
505 margin to the up/down arrow.
506 + add/use dlg_draw_box2() and dlg_draw_bottom_box2() to use the
508 + modify rc-file read/write to accept/generate color values that refer
509 to previously-processed items in the color table. This reduces the
510 number of distinct colors that must be specified to set up a color
512 + add color table entries for secondary borders, i.e., the ones that
513 are normally drawn with the dialog's text-colors (Debian #641168).
514 + modify fselect.c to scan the current directory if the input field
515 happens to be empty (Debian #640905).
516 + repeated the discussion of environment variables that can override
517 the exit-status values in the manpage's return-codes section
519 + add an example to the manpage showing how to override the form
520 widget's keys used for field/button traversal (Debian #642108).
521 + modify call to dlg_register_window() in formbox.c so that the editing
522 bindings are attached to the form sub-window rather than the
523 top-level dialog window. Also change the name by which the editing
524 bindings are bound for editbox.c, fselect.c and inputbox.c, so that
525 the editing and navigation bindings can be different.
526 + correct logic in dlg_lookup_key() so that it matches the widget name
527 before using a binding from .dialogrc, allowing the inner/outer
528 windows of form and other editing widgets to have different bindings.
529 + modify dlg_register_window() to call dlg_dump_window_keys() after
530 its updates, via the --trace output, to supplement the manpage
531 description of key bindings (Debian #642108).
532 + add DLGK_FORM_PREV and DLGK_FORM_NEXT key-bindings to form.c, to
533 allow binding a single key to traverse both form-fields and buttons
535 + modify dlg_parse_rc() to check for error return from
537 + add function dlg_dump_window_keys(), to help with debugging widgets.
538 + add CR, LF, TAB, FF and ESC to table of curses names to help make
539 key bindings more readable.
540 + update table of dialog key-names so that helpfile and trace are
542 + correct dlg_dump_keys(), which was showing only the first item in
543 the matched binding table.
544 + save/restore window current position in dlg_update_mixedgauge().
545 + pass return-code from pause_for_ok() from dlg_progressbox() when
546 pauseopt is set, rather than only DLG_OK.
547 + call setlocale() in init_dialog() rather than relying on on-demand
548 use within inputstr.c, since there are paths in textbox widget which
549 do not exercise the latter (report by xDog Walker).
550 + fix some places where checks for "\Z" were done without also checking
551 dialog_vars.colors (report by Moray Henderson).
552 + correct logic for DIALOGOPTS parsing so that the parse happens only
553 once unless memory leak checking is enabled (report by xDog Walker).
554 + remove an incorrect free() call in dlg_free_gauge() (report by xDog
556 + modify dlg_trace_win() to log wide-characters (report by xDog Walker).
557 + make traces shorter by skipping repeated ERR's, but showing the
558 number skipped (report by xDog Walker).
559 + improve description in manpage to distinguish program box and
560 progress box from tailboxes (adapted from email by xDog Walker).
561 + modify dlg_trace_win() so that it looks for the topmost window in a
562 dialog. Because subwindows share space with the top window, tracing
563 the latter shows the whole widget (report by xDog Walker).
564 + expand tracing so that each window is traced before soliciting input,
565 making the ^T feature to print a window on demand partly redundant
566 (suggested by xDog Walker).
567 + cosmetic change in dialog.h to avoid "*/*" strings from comments next
568 to "*" (report by xDog Walker).
569 + ensure result from dlg_align_columns() has trailing null on each
570 string. Analysis was hindered by libc6's continuance of libc5's
571 early-1990s misfeature of clearing the result from malloc, noting
572 that libc6's documentation incorrectly claims that it does not do
573 this (report by xDog Walker).
576 + modify util.c to work better with old versions of ncurses:
577 + suppress use of wchgat() before fix in 20060715 which is needed
578 for simple shadow manipulation used here in 2011/06/30 (report
580 + add a null-pointer check in dlg_print_scrolled()
581 + fix a regression in dlg_getc() introduced by changes to intercept
582 F1 for help-popup (report by xDog Walker).
585 + correct license statement for prgbox.c (Debian #632198).
586 + correct layout when "--colors" is used, by discounting characters in
587 the escape sequences from the column counts (report by xDog Walker).
588 + modify dlg_checklist() so that only one item in the list can
589 initially be selected (report by xDog Walker).
590 + add/use macro dlg_enter_buttoncode() to improve implementation of
591 "--nook" option (report by xDog Walker).
592 + add option "--no-nl-expand" to suppress the conversion of "\n"
593 strings into newlines (request by xDog Walker).
594 + modify LIB_CREATE symbol in makefile.in to include the library
595 dependencies such as ncurses. This is needed when dynamically
596 loading the library (report/analysis by xDog Walker).
597 + modify dlg_exit_label() to suppress the Cancel button, for
599 + modify dlg_exit_label() to honor the --nook option, except when there
600 is no other button, e.g., the help-button.
601 + modify dlg_exit_buttoncode() so that it returns the proper code for
602 help-button (report by xDog Walker).
603 + correct loop limit when processing "--column-separator" (report by
605 + modify handling of "--version" and "--help" to ensure that they are
606 processed, and exit before widgets. Separate "--print-version"
607 from "--version", allowing its output to be interspersed with
608 widget output (report by xDog Walker).
609 + correct a few places where "--version" or "--help" options went
610 always to stdout rather than allowing redirection with the "--stderr"
611 option (report by xDog Walker).
612 + improve repainting after erasing a widget and its shadow.
613 + add "--hline" and "--hfile" options for compatibility with FreeBSD
614 dialog (request by Devin Teske).
615 + add dialog version message when opening a trace file (request by
617 + show filename of rc-file in traces.
618 + add piped-in data for gauge widget to traces.
619 + add entrypoints to gauge widget, for allocating, updating and freeing
620 the widget (adapted from patch by Stephen Hurd).
621 + fix a reference to freed memory in the gauge widget.
622 + fix --no-mouse option by actually closing the mouse (report by
625 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
626 + limit Solaris xpg4 portability fix for redefinition of ERR to cover
627 the specific value found in <sys/regset.h>, in case an application
628 includes dialog.h after curses.h (FreeBSD #156601, report by Jaakko
629 Heinonen, Stephen Hurd).
630 + updated configure macros:
631 + CF_CURSES_CPPFLAGS,
632 + CF_CURSES_LIBS, make checks for special libraries on hpux10 and
634 + CF_CURSES_FUNCS, workaround for bug in gcc 4.2.1 (FreeBSD 8.1)
635 which caused part of test program to be omitted, i.e., when it saw
636 two return-statements in a row it omitted the _first_ one. Also
637 add expression to pointer check to help FreeBSD's linker decide it
638 should be validated. Just an assignment was not enough. Also, add
640 + CF_CURSES_HEADER, change order for curses.h / ncurses.h pairs to
641 put ncurses.h first, which will tend to provide the same #define's
642 as in CF_NCURSES_HEADER (report by Dennis Preiser).
643 + CF_CURSES_TERM_H, modify to avoid spurious check for
644 <curses.hterm.h> if there is no ncurses version. Look for
645 ncurses's term.h anyway, to work around breakage by packagers who
646 separate ncurses' header files.
647 + CF_DISABLE_RPATH_HACK, fix garbled message
648 + CF_LD_RPATH_OPT, add mirbsd
649 + CF_MAKEFLAGS, filter out GNU make's entering/leaving messages.
650 This only appeared when using the macro in a dpkg script, though it
651 should have in other cases.
652 + CF_RPATH_HACK, add a check for libraries not found, e.g., from
653 suppressed functionality of gcc in linking from /usr/local/lib, and
654 add a -L option to help work around this.
655 + CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, workaround for cygwin to get ncurses' configure
656 script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED (cygwin's features.h
657 doesn't do anything, so it needs a crutch).
658 + update config.guess, config.sub
661 + add --prgbox and --programbox (adapted from patch by David Boyd).
663 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
664 + fix timeouts from 2011/01/18, which were being interpreted as
665 milliseconds rather than seconds (report by Luis Moreira).
668 + fix inconsistency in return-codes for textbox when help-button is
669 used by making dlg_exit_buttoncode() a wrapper for
671 + modify pause widget to use dlg_ok_buttoncode(), so help-button works.
672 + correct two infobox sample scripts, which did not pass extra
673 command-line parameters due to quoting problems.
674 + add a limit-check to the timebox widget (patch by Garrett Cooper).
675 + modify --trace option to also trace the command-line parameters.
676 + account for combining characters when wrapping text (Debian #570634).
677 + correct handling of SIGWINCH in gauge widget (Debian #305705).
678 + add gauge_color, to make guage's progress-bar distinct from
679 title_color (request by Dominic Derdau).
681 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
682 as well as resync line-numbers in the other po-files.
683 + modify configure script and dialog program to build with NetBSD's
684 wide-character curses functions, including workarounds for its
685 incorrect WACS_xxx definitions. Some of the UTF-8 examples work.
686 + add back-tab for traversal of tailboxbg widgets, for symmetry with
688 + reduce flicker in tailboxbg by checking if the input file size has
690 + modify internals of callbacks to avoid blocking reads of their
691 associated files by keyboard input.
692 + add command-line option --no-mouse, to suppress use of mouse.
693 + add configure option --enable-header-subdir to allow the header files
694 to be installed into a subdirectory named for the package.
695 + modify dlg_restore_vars() to retain the updated values of
696 input_result and input_length, eliminating the need for a caller to
697 provide their own user buffer (prompted by report by Thiago Bimbatti
699 + add a null-pointer check in show_result() for
700 dialog_vars.input_result, and ensure it is set to null after freeing
701 (prompted by report by Thiago Bimbatti Felicio).
702 + change order of -I options in CPPFLAGS (report by Michel Feldheim)
703 + modify pause-widget so that it no longer exits when an unrecognized
704 key is pressed (patch by Creidieki M Crouch).
705 + add --with-package option to configure script to allow renaming
706 of the dialog program and library, to support the package scripts.
707 + add Debian and RPM package scripts for test-builds.
708 + several improvements to configure script:
709 + quote params of ifelse()
710 + change obsolete ${name-value} to standard ${name:-value}
711 + use new macros CF_ADD_LIB/CF_ADD_LIBS to enforce consistency.
712 + AM_GNU_GETTEXT, drop $MKINSTALLDIRS, use "mkdir -p" consistently.
713 + CF_ADD_SUBDIR_PATH, workaround - if $prefix was not mkdir'd yet, no
714 directories were added.
715 + CF_BUNDLED_INTL, add --with-textdomain option, to use with lynx-dev
717 + CF_FIND_LINKAGE, simplify save/restore of $LIBS
718 + CF_GCC_WARNINGS, fix for Mac OS X (compiler makes conftest.dSYM
720 + CF_HEADER_PATH, don't search for variations of everything in the
722 + CF_WITH_CURSES_DIR, move the calls to CF_ADD_INCDIR and
723 CF_ADD_LIBDIR for the curses-directory here, from
724 CF_NCURSES_CPPFLAGS and CF_NCURSES_LDFLAGS, so it will work even
725 with the default checking, e.g., no --with-ncurses, etc.
726 + update config.guess, config.sub
729 + several improvements to configure script:
730 + modify CF_CURSES_TERM_H to handle cases such as cygwin where
731 packager has installed curses.h and term.h in different
732 directories, e.g., to wedge in a termcap library.
733 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, adding special case for OpenSolaris
734 + modify CF_MAKE_TAGS to add check for exctags and exetags, prefer to
735 ctags and etags to work around pkgsrc (NetBSD) renaming.
736 + correct CF_FIND_LINKAGE, setting cache variable for library_file in
737 the special case where no directory search is made.
738 + improve CF_GCC_VERSION, suppress stderr for c89 alias of gcc.
739 + improve CF_GCC_WARNINGS, moving -W and -Wall into the list to
740 check, since c89 alias for gcc complains about these options.
741 + modify CF_HEADER_PATH, to not search for variations of everything
742 in the current include-path
743 + use "mkdir -p", remove mkdirs.sh
744 + use CF_CURSES_HEADER to fill in possible subdirectory used for
745 ncurses header filename.
746 + modify CF_XOPEN_CURSES to work around current ncurse header loss of
747 predefinition of _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
748 + add "--disable-rpath-hack" option, along with scripting to add
749 rpath option to libraries found in unusual places.
750 + modify pause widget to autosize like gauge, and to omit the area for
751 buttons when none are displayed.
752 + fix an infinite loop in dlg_button_layout() if there are no buttons
753 to display (Debian #579390).
754 + add makefile rules for generating html, etc., documentation from
756 > patches by Samuel Martin Moro
757 + reset errors in tailbox before reading new character.
758 + modify dlg_draw_scrollbar(), omitting hiding percentages in boxes
759 when no arrows or scrollbar are needed.
760 + correct value of row for scrollbars in formbox.
762 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
765 + split up binding tables in inputbox and similar widgets to avoid
766 conflict between cursor-key use for input-string versus navigation
767 (report by slakmagik).
768 + if strftime() is available, support --time-format option for timebox
770 + if strftime() is available, support --date-format option for calendar
771 widget (request by Walter Harms).
772 + build-fixes for linking to intl library in /usr/local
773 + add --scrollbar option, use in most widgets to show a scrollbar on
774 the right margin of the data. That is cosmetic, does not respond to
776 + reuse functions from msgbox to allow prompt for yesno box to be
777 scrolled in a too-small window.
778 + correct mapping of button-codes with --nook option (report by Lebedev
780 + cleanup sample scripts using new utility scripts setup-* and report-*,
781 and allow command-line parameters to be added, for ad hoc testing.
782 + correct change to tailbox widget from 2009/02/22 using
783 dlg_button_layout(), which broke that widget.
784 + document some of the portability caveats.
785 + modify gauge widget to service callbacks (prompted by patch and
786 comments by Frank Sorenson).
787 + modify editbox to allow its input buffer to be larger than MAX_LEN
788 unless bounded by the --max-input option, and add limit-checks for
789 the buffer (report by slakmagik).
790 + improve manpage description of --checklist (report by Isaac Good).
791 + several improvements to configure script macros: CF_ADD_CFLAGS
792 CF_CURSES_FUNCS CF_DISABLE_ECHO CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES CF_MATH_LIB
793 CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE CF_REMOVE_DEFINE CF_WITH_LIBTOOL CF_XOPEN_SOURCE
794 + add is.po, lv.po, sw.po from
795 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
796 + update de.po, id.po, pl.po, pt_BR.po, vi.po from
797 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
800 + do not display top-arrows for scrolling if they would overwrite the
801 title (report by slakmagik)
802 + consistently use dlg_button_layout() when autosizing widgets (report
804 + add "-" and "+" bindings to timebox widget.
805 + add "-" and "+" bindings to calendar widget (OpenSolaris #6739031).
806 + review/fix other widgets to ensure that they exit on error, e.g.,
808 + modify check in dlg_getc() to treat closure of either stdin or stdout
809 as an error, rather than both. This is more stringent than the check
811 + modify dlg_result_key() to map curses ERR to dialog's error exit
812 (adapted from patch by Domagoj Pensa).
813 + updated several configure script macros:
814 + consistently append, rather then prepend, to $CFLAGS
815 + add cases for AIX 6, mint, and dragonfly to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE
816 + use $PATH_SEPARATOR rather than $PATHSEP
817 + improve CF_FIND_LINKAGE, use in checks for more libraries, e.g.,
818 libutf8 and libiconv.
819 + update da.po, ru.po from
820 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
821 + update config.guess, config.sub
824 + amend changes to quoting; by default, the checklist widget quotes its
825 output except when --separate-output is used (Debian #495600).
827 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
830 + add pointer-check when closing piped input (cf: 2007/03/25)
831 + use here-documents rather than echo, when passing backslashes in
832 strings, to accommodate the Debian shell "dash" (Debian #489563).
833 + recode several ".po" files to UTF-8 for consistency.
834 + change --separator to be an alias for --output-separator, for
835 compatibility with Xdialog.
836 + add --output-separator option to allow scripts to change the output
837 separator from a newline (for --separate-output) or a space. This
838 applies to other widgets such as forms and editboxes which normally
840 + add --column-separator option, to tell where column-aligned data for
841 radio/checkboxes or menus should be split into columns (request by
843 + add id.po, ku.po, lt.po, nb.po and update ca.po, fr.po, gl.po, ja.po,
845 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
846 + add "--quoted" option, to quote values returned by formbox, etc.
847 + change names of EX/ES macros in dialog.1 to work around name-
848 pollution caused by changes in Debian #470729.
851 + modify dlg_mouse_wgetch() to loop only on errors that it detects,
852 rather than on errors forwarded from dlg_getc(), in case those are
853 due to a disconnected terminal (report by Anatoli Sakhnik).
854 + allow "default" color in dialogrc file (request by Dashing).
855 + fix an indexing error in formbox (Debian #469190, report by Dmitry
856 Gomerman, patch by Vladimir Mezentsev).
857 + add bindings for CTL/N, CTL/P to checklist, fselect and menubox
858 widgets (prompted by discussion with John Gatewood Ham).
859 + add be@latin.po, th.po and update zh_TW.po from
860 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
861 > patches by Peter Astrand:
862 + modify dlg_auto_sizefile() to ensure the computed height and width
863 do not extend beyond the screen size.
864 + use unctrl() to make inputstr.c work with Solaris curses.
865 > patches by Yura Kalinichenko:
866 + extend pause widget to use ok/cancel buttons (the former giving the
867 same result as a timeout), rather than an exit-button.
868 + fix initialization parameter of inputbox for multibyte characters.
871 + improve layout of checklist.c, menubox.c, ensuring that the list fits
872 within the available space (report by Gordon Schumacher).
873 + undo removal of redundant chunk from checklist.c in 2007/02/27,
874 since some scripts depend on this (Debian #443077).
876 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
879 + correct cursor position in editbox after deleting past left margin
880 (report by Joe McDonagh).
881 + add "--no-ok" option (patch by Klaus Knopper).
882 + modify "--file" option to allow it to read from sources other than
883 a regular file (patch by Pieter van Beek).
884 + improved hi.po (Hindi) (from Klaus Knopper).
885 + fix masking of attributes in dlg_draw_shadow() which lost
886 line-drawing bit (report by David Everly).
887 + fix editbox widget to handle zero-length files (report by Joe
889 + update "po" files eu.po ga.po it.po ms.po sv.po vi.po wa.po zh_CN.po
891 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
894 + revise the resizable shadows so textbox's search dialog has text
895 visible in the shadow again.
896 + improve the prefixing of autoconf-related symbols in the installed
897 header files, taking into account symbols which are not mentioned in
899 + add a check when ERR returned from wgetch() to ensure that the
900 input/output streams are still valid. If that happens, force
901 ESC to be returned, quitting dialog (report by Reiner Huober).
902 + add extern "C" declarations to dlg_keys.h so the corresponding
903 function declarations are exported to C++ as C symbols.
904 + update config.guess, config.sub
907 + fix a memory leak in editbox.c
908 + revise change from 2007/02/27 which moved the logic for trimming
909 option text out of the loop because that moved it before
910 initialization of the "--trim" option. Put it back in the loop, but
911 limit the tokens which are trimmed to cover only those for the
912 current widget. Also ensure that all tokens for a widget are
913 trimmed, rather than only the first, which is usually text (report by
915 + add _FILE_OFFSET_BITS definition in CF_LARGEFILE configure macro.
918 + revise changes needed to make textbox's searchbox handle ncurses
919 resizing events, e.g., by handling the ERR in that code rather than
920 in dlg_getc() (Debian #423732).
923 + supply a repaint_text() call in tailbox.c which was bypassed because
924 dlg_getc() now retries on ERR (Debian #423732, cf: 2007/02/27).
925 + modify dlg_getc() to fix regression in 2007/02/27 for use of
926 timeouts, broken by fixes to allow resizing of textbox (patch by
927 Arnaud Fontaine, Debian #418905).
928 + modify dlg_getc() to fix regression in use of TAB for traversal of
929 tailboxbg widgets due to changes for user-definable key bindings
930 (Debian #418917, cf: 2005/12/07).
933 + add case in dlg_getc() to handle tab for traversing between widgets
934 as in the samples/tailboxbg1 script. Normally the key binding
935 overrides, except for the special case where multiple widgets are
937 + add configure --with-libtool-opts, which passes its value to the
938 library creation and linkage passes, e.g.,
939 --with-libtool-opts=-static
940 to force the result to be static libraries (prompted by a related
941 request by Santiago Vila).
942 > several fixes based on Coverity scan:
943 + fix memory leak in timebox, calendar widgets if the widget cannot
945 + fix memory leak in dlg_key.c if a user binding's storage cannot
947 + fix improperly delinked entry in dlg_del_window().
950 + improve mkdirs.sh to ignore error from mkdir if the target directory
951 happens to already exist (suggested by Harald van Dijk).
952 + amend documentation for --gauge to reflect longstanding quirk which
953 allows it to read percentage from the first line after an "XXX"
955 + fix makefile dependency so "configure && make install-lib" works.
956 + fix resizing of msgbox; the message was not repainted (Debian
957 #415022, patch by Brian Rolfe).
958 + fix typo in makefile LIB_OBJECT symbol from 2007/02/27 changes.
959 + improve CF_MBSTATE_T by including stdio.h, needed on Tru64 to make
960 the test-compile work.
961 + change makefile to install dialog.3 as part of install-lib rather
962 than install-man (report by Thomas Klausner).
963 + use $(INSTALL_SCRIPT) for installing dialog-config (report by
966 2007/02/27 - release 1.1
967 + mark as "dialog 1.1"
968 + add dialog-config script, which provides applications with compile-
969 and link-information for using the dialog library.
970 + move calls to dlg_trim_string() out of loop in dialog.c, so each
971 string is trimmed once (report by Ivanov Makcim).
972 + modify textbox.c to allow resizing while the search box is presented.
973 This relies on bug-fix in ncurses 5.6 20070224.
974 + use dgettext() rather than gettext() to allow libdialog to use the
975 messages installed for dialog (patch by Vajna Miklos).
976 + modify inputbox to position the cursor initially at the end of any
977 initial-text (request by Klaus Knopper).
978 + add configure --with-valgrind for testing.
979 + add --trace option, for debugging.
980 + add --ascii-lines and --no-lines options to control the way the
981 line-drawing characters are rendered (request by Klaus Knopper).
982 + add --keep-tite option, to override suppression of smcup/rmcup
983 (termcap ti/te) strings which would switch to xterm's alternate
984 screen (Debian #380665).
985 + modify fselect/dselect to use space-character as a completion
986 operator like tab in shells (patch by Yoram Bar Haim).
987 + remove a redundant chunk from checklist.c which reported status a
988 second time if the help-button was pressed but no item-help option
989 was in effect (Andre C Barros).
990 + fix return-status from "dialog --pause" (Debian #409254).
991 + add --mixedform and --mixedgauge dialogs based on patch from
993 + add some notes on compatibility to the manpage.
994 + add editbox dialog (compatible with Xdialog, Debian #368478).
995 + add dselect dialog (compatible with Xdialog).
996 + remove an incorrect initialization of .text_flen from 2005/12/07
997 changes, which made all fields in a form editable (Debian #404045).
998 + report error and exit if a filename given for the --file option
999 cannot be opened (report by "Dog Walker").
1000 + make --program-prefix, etc., work in configure script, e.g., to make
1001 program install as "cdialog". This does not alter the library name.
1002 + add install-bin, install-man (and uninstall) rules to makefile.
1003 + updates for configure script macros (originally vile, lynx, xterm):
1004 AM_PATH_PROG_WITH_TEST, AM_WITH_NLS, CF_CURSES_CPPFLAGS,
1005 CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_INCLUDE_DIRS, CF_LARGEFILE, CF_MAKEFLAGS,
1006 CF_PATH_SYNTAX, CF_SUBDIR_PATH, CF_SUBST, CF_WITH_DBMALLOC,
1007 CF_WITH_DMALLOC, CF_WITH_LIBTOOL and CF_XOPEN_SOURCE.
1008 + update config.guess, config.sub
1009 > adapted fixes from SuSE package (Werner Fink):
1010 + add some limit-checks in dlg_draw_shadow().
1011 + make shadows resizable, using new dlg_move_window() in msgbox.c
1013 + add dialog_state.input, use this in end_dialog() to decide whether
1014 to close pipe inputs and call _exit(), or simply call exit().
1015 + modify dlg_ctl_size() to check if the reason for failure is because
1016 shadows were used; retry in that case without shadows.
1017 + add signal catcher for SIGSEGV.
1020 + fix logic in split-out dlg_menu() to separate inputmenu and menu
1021 handling (report by Auke Kok).
1024 + fix fselect.c to compile properly with Intel compiler and largefile
1026 + improve configure script checks for curses headers to work around
1027 breakage in some packages, e.g., cygwin.
1028 + amend correction to menubox, fixes normal menus (Debian #349969).
1031 + completed dialog.3 manpage
1032 + modify configure script option --with-gauge to cover all flavors of
1033 the gauge (gauge, pause, progressbox).
1034 + add progressbox widget, a hybrid of gauge and tailbox (Reznic Valery).
1035 + fix a comparison in checklist.c to avoid unneeded arrows when the
1036 list happens to fit in the window (patch by Peter Postma).
1037 + correct wrapping computation in print_line() from 2005/11/07 changes
1038 (report by Barry Kauler).
1039 + update sv.po (comments only).
1040 http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/maint/dialog/
1041 + correct logic that passes the callback for menubox to do inputmenu
1042 operations from 2005/12/7 changes (report by Reznic Valery).
1045 + add a null-pointer check in dlg_register_buttons(), needed for the
1046 tailboxbg (Debian #345524).
1047 + fix a few memory leaks reported by valgrind.
1050 + correct return-values of new functions dlg_default_listitem() and
1051 dlg_default_formitem() (Debian #344002).
1052 + add Swedish translation (Debian #343303, by Daniel Nylander)
1053 + begin function-summaries in dialog.3
1054 + update config.guess, config.sub
1057 + change license to LGPL.
1058 + change naming convention in dlg_colors.h to make it easier to read,
1059 and incidentally remove the last chunk of code preventing relicense.
1060 + add --passwordform (request by Reznic Valery).
1061 + modify pause.c, msgbox.c to work with --help-button.
1062 + modify formbox.c, inputbox.c, textbox.c, yesno.c to work with extra
1063 button (adapted from Reznic Valery patch).
1064 + modify dlg_exit_label(), dlg_yes_labels() and dlg_ok_label() to allow
1065 help-button (prompted by Reznic Valery patch).
1066 + add zh_CN.po file from
1067 http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/maint/dialog/
1068 + provide alternate interfaces for dialog_checklist(), dialog_menu()
1069 and dialog_form(): dlg_checklist(), dlg_menu() and dlg_form()
1070 (discussion with Michael Gebetsroither).
1071 + add/use dlg_result_key() to allow binding function keys to the
1073 + implement user-definable key bindings in the rc-file.
1074 + modify inline cases for KEY_xxx values to use binding tables in new
1076 + add several DIALOG_STATE items to the rc file: aspect,
1077 separate_widget, tab_len and visit_links
1078 + add a tab-adjustment to dlg_print_text() to improve solution from
1079 2005/10/30, e.g., in the samples/form* scripts.
1080 + fix an off-by-one which made mouse-selection not work for menu items
1081 past the first page (GenToo #112024, patch by Harald van Dijk).
1084 + extend dlg_add_result() to allow caller to pass a null pointer
1085 for dialog_vars.input_result (Debian #336986).
1086 + correct length used for text portion of radio/checkboxes (report by
1088 + modify msgbox, textbox and center_label() to work properly for
1089 LANG=bg_BG.utf8 examples by Valentin Stoykov.
1090 + modify use of freopen() to work with opaque FILE type on DragonFly
1091 (report by Jeremy C Reed).
1092 + modify print_line() to compute columns, use that for the call to
1093 dlg_print_line(). Fix a few places where strlen() was used instead
1094 of dlg_count_columns() (reports by Valentin Stoykov).
1097 + reviewed changes since beginning development in 1999, decided that
1098 there are no appreciable portions of original code remaining.
1099 Marked sources to correspond.
1100 + improve cache performance for inputstr.c using tsearch() rather than
1101 a linked-list search (Debian #294853).
1102 + remove a special case for darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
1103 + add ms.po file from
1104 http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/maint/dialog/
1105 + remove an assignment that caused the cursor to appear initially on a
1106 form field rather than button (Debian #333506).
1107 + modify buttons.c to count columns rather than bytes, fixing case
1108 where buttons were laid out incorrectly (report by Valentin Stoykov).
1109 + change dlg_print_text() to count columns rather than bytes, fixing
1110 case where fewer columns were displayed in menu than expected
1111 (report by Valentin Stoykov).
1114 + improve fix for dlg_does_output(), eliminating redundant leading
1116 + fill background color for item-help text (report by Peter Postma).
1117 + correct interaction between --separate-output and --output-separator
1118 broken in 2005/09/11 fix for Debian #326918 (Debian #331440).
1119 + update config.guess, config.sub
1122 + undo doubled adjustment for left/right margins when wrapping text
1123 for msgbox, gauge and pause (report by Xyba).
1124 + correct position of scrolled text in formbox broken by 2004/12/19
1125 changes (report by Konrad Jelen).
1126 + call dlg_does_output() from dlg_add_result(), ensuring that
1127 separators are used when combining widgets such as formbox (report by
1129 + fix marker in textbox.c to make it disappear at the top of the file
1130 (report by Patrick J. Volkerding).
1131 + fix marker shown in arrows.c for checklists, etc., which was "(+)"
1132 where it should have been "(-)" (report/patch by Patrick J.
1134 + fix --input-fd (changes in glibc since 2003 made dialog hang on exit
1135 due to the way dialog updated stdin).
1136 + restore default value (a tab) for --separator or --separate-widget
1137 lost in 2003/11/26 changes (Debian #326918).
1138 + make several widgets handle SIGWINCH (calendar, checklist, formbox,
1139 fselect, inputbox, menubox, pause, tailbox, textbox, timebox). Only
1140 msgbox and yesno had been done before. Note that some still have
1141 fixed geometry requirements, so they cannot be shrunk below a given
1142 threshold. Also, these changes do not address traversal, e.g., for
1144 + make gauge widget handle SIGWINCH with ncurses (Debian #305705).
1145 + add configure option to control whether largefile support is
1146 compiled-in (Debian #298882).
1147 + update eu.po (Debian #312622, patch by Piarres Egana).
1148 + add/update po files from
1149 http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/maint/dialog/
1150 fi.po, rw.po, sr.po, tr.po, zh_TW.po
1151 + fixes for configure script:
1152 + improve script for determining gcc version
1153 + improve checks for Intel compiler and related warning options
1154 + improve checks for defining _XOPEN_SOURCE (or alternatives) and
1156 + update config.guess, config.sub
1159 + add/update po files from
1160 http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/maint/dialog/
1162 + revert last change for da.po; it was from an older version (report by
1163 Morten Brix Pedersen).
1166 + modify makefile.in so --disable-echo applies to libtool builds.
1167 + corrected malloc size used for editable fields in formbox widget to
1168 match the function which updates the corresponding buffer.
1169 + modify formbox widget's use of flen to allow negative values to be
1170 used to limit the length of the displayed field.
1171 + improve description in manpage of output from formbox widget
1173 + modify formbox widget to allow fields with flen==0 to display
1175 + improved configure macros CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE and CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, to
1176 avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
1177 + fix a typo in inputmenu-stdout found via "sh -n" (report by Steve
1179 + add/update po files from
1180 http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/maint/dialog/
1181 ca.po, da.po, hu.po, nl.po, rm.po, ro.po, vi.po
1184 + add --args option to help with debugging scripts.
1185 + adapted some new po files from Debian package for whiptail: ar.po,
1186 bg.po, gl.po, hi.po, hr.po, mg.po, mk.po, ro.po, sq.po and zh_TW.po
1187 + update da.po (Morten Brix Pedersen).
1188 + add configure check for Intel 8.0 compiler, to set appropriate
1190 + update config.guess, config.sub
1193 + correct a typo in 2004/12/19 changes which caused width of multibyte
1194 characters to be incorrectly computed in some locales.
1195 + modify --version and --help options to write consistently to the
1196 standard output (report by Santiago Vila).
1197 + modify tailboxbg by resetting tty modes at the point where it forks a
1198 process to update the screen, rather than waiting until that process
1199 exits. This improves user feedback by making it apparent that dialog
1200 is no longer processing input after that point (Redhat #142538).
1201 + minor updates to some .po files using Babel Fish, comparing with lynx.
1202 + update es.po (Santiago Vila).
1203 + work around bug in NetBSD 1.6 curses which seems to be confused by
1204 reusing color pairs with different video attributes. The problem
1205 does not appear in NetBSD 2.0 curses (but its headers do not provide
1206 version info, so color-caching is not available for that
1208 + modify pause and gauge widgets to ensure that reverse-video progress
1209 bar is visible when the background is reversed, e.g., using the
1210 default non-color attributes.
1211 + use chtype rather than attr_t, to build with old Solaris curses,
1212 used in save/restore operation from 2004/09/20.
1215 + add pause-widget (patch by Yura Kalinichenko).
1216 + modify exit-code returned on selecting the "Help"-button when the
1217 --item-help option is given. Previously this returned the same code
1218 as "OK", since it combines output for "OK" with the help status. It
1219 now returns the help-code, but this can be overridden by setting the
1220 environment variable $DIALOG_ITEM_HELP (reports by Erika Pacholleck
1221 and Sebastian Muesch).
1222 + modify formbox widget so input-length is not limited to field-length
1223 (report by David Liebermann).
1224 + localize the label on the search box for textbox widget (report by
1226 + correct usage message detail for fselect, which listed an extra
1227 parameter (Debian #284008).
1228 + add include for <sys/select.h> in ui_getc.c to build with QNX 4.25
1229 using Watcom 10.6 (patch by Len Meakin).
1230 + modify behavior when no locale (or POSIX locale) is set to allow
1231 legacy interpretation of Latin-1 character set (Debian #284795).
1234 + correct computation of column width for menubox/checkbox tags, for
1235 multicolumn characters, e.g., the menubox-utf8 example.
1236 + correct calls to wbkgdset(), which set the background attribute but
1237 not the corresponding character (ncurses uses blank if none is given).
1238 + improve configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE and _POSIX_C_SOURCE.
1239 + improved limit-computation in show_message() to allow for scrolling
1241 + adjust scrolling logic in msgbox to account for the one-line offset
1242 used by the logic which wraps text in a box, thus avoiding leaving
1243 an extra blank line (report by Maxim Sobolev).
1246 + add samples/whiptail.rc
1247 + add samples/dialog.py (noting that a later version of this exists
1248 as pythondialog, but this is relatively self-contained). Modified
1249 the script to accept the $DIALOG environment variable like the other
1250 sample scripts, to specify the path of the program to use.
1251 + modify the install rule for header-files so the autoconf names in
1252 dlg_config.h (and corresponding usage in dialog.h, etc), are altered
1253 from "HAVE_xxx" to "DLG_HAVE_xxx", etc.
1254 + add a check for getenv("HOME") in rc.c
1255 + add a call to end_dialog() in signal_handler for tailboxbg (from
1256 patch by Werner Fink).
1257 + correct initialization in checklist and radiobox for --default-item,
1258 scrolling as needed.
1259 + modify --visit-items option so that it puts the cursor initially on
1260 the list (in menubox, checklist and radiobox), accepts abbreviations
1261 for the buttons when the cursor is on the button-row, and otherwise
1262 (when --visit-items is given) abbreviations apply only to the list
1263 (report by Erika Pacholleck).
1264 + modify a few widgets (inputbox, textbox, yesno) to beep on unexpected
1266 + modify some msgbox widget to accept abbreviations of its button
1267 label, for consistency with other widgets (request by Erika
1269 + corrected logic of dlg_char_to_button(), making it check only the
1270 first uppercase letter in each button label rather than all uppercase
1271 letters (report by Erika Pacholleck, cf: 2003/09/10).
1272 + improved description of --clear and --keep-window options (adapted
1273 from Erika Pacholleck).
1274 + move discussion of --beep and --beep-signal options to Obsolete
1275 Options section of manpage, remove these from the help-message
1276 (report by Erika Pacholleck).
1277 + bracket extern's in dialog.h with C++ extern "C" declaration, in case
1278 the library is used from a C++ application.
1279 + modify inputmenu examples to allow ESC to cancel the script.
1280 + modify inputmenu widget to cancel edit on a TAB or ESC.
1281 + modify inputmenu widget to use the same color scheme for the editable
1282 text as the inputbox widget.
1283 + modify samples/killall to work around differences in "cut" versions.
1284 + use the color-caching from the \Z logic when loading the ".rc" file,
1285 thereby reducing the number of color pairs required, and making it
1286 less likely that deriving color pairs for drawing arrows on a given
1287 background will run out of colors.
1288 + save/restore window attributes in dlg_draw_arrows() and similar
1289 functions, to allow widgets to draw arrows using the widget's
1290 background rather than a common/fixed value (request by Erika
1292 + modify textbox widget so the down-arrow will be hidden when at the
1293 end of the file. (Modifying the up-arrow to be hidden is harder -
1294 will do this when implementing scrollbars).
1295 + correct off-by-one in fselect.c which left down-arrows showing at
1296 the bottom of directory- and file-lists (report by Erika Pacholleck).
1297 + improve display of percentages by omitting blanks where lines should
1299 + modify logic for \Z escapes to make those that set video attributes
1300 not clear the colors (report by Erika Pacholleck).
1301 + modify logic for \Z escapes to allow foreground and background
1302 colors to be the same, provided that bold attribute is set.
1303 Also improved the logic for choosing a background color when the
1304 foreground and background are the same (report by Erika Pacholleck).
1305 + updated configure script macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, ensuring that the
1306 _POSIX_C_SOURCE value is defined with a specific value (bug report
1307 originally for lynx).
1308 + fix configure script so that po/makefile is generated properly when
1309 the configure --srcdir --enable-nls options are used.
1310 + modify makefile.in to allow build/install from another directory,
1311 i.e., using configure --srcdir (patch by Mike Castle).
1312 + updated da.po (Debian #262587, Morten Brix Pedersen).
1313 + modify some sample scripts to avoid using grave quotes nested within
1314 double quotes with multiple file redirection, which does not work
1315 with Solaris /bin/sh (report/analysis by Eric Haller).
1316 + check for end of string immediately after a \Z escape to avoid
1317 displaying the null terminator as a ^@ (report by Erika Pacholleck).
1318 > patches by Erika Pacholleck:
1319 + modify calendar.c, fselect.c and timebox.c to use color scheme like
1320 other lists, using menubox colors rather than dialog colors.
1321 + correct charset for po/de.po, translate messages for "Help" and
1323 + omit parentheses around percentage in textbox.c
1324 + correct a few mismatched attributes, e.g., searchbox_attr in textbox.c,
1325 percentage in msgbox.c,
1329 + add test scripts to cover zero-width column case.
1330 + remove limit checks from checklist.c and menubox.c (cf: 2004/07/28),
1331 since some scripts use zero-width columns (Debian #262411 and report
1335 + modify msgbox.c to only reserve space for percentage shown as part
1336 of scrollable text for the msgbox widget. This makes infobox look
1337 as it did before 2004/06/06 changes (report by Vinesh Christopher)
1340 + remove redundant calls to wtimeout() from widgets since wtimeout()
1341 is properly called from ui_getc() where it is controlled by the
1342 --timeout option (bug report by juanjo).
1343 + add limit checks in checklist.c and menubox.c for very narrow screens
1344 (prompted by Steve Grubb patch).
1345 + initialize step in dlg_draw_buttons() in case it is used to draw
1346 a vertical list of buttons (prompted by Steve Grubb patch).
1347 > fixes by Steve Grubb:
1348 + correct logic in checklist.c (cf: 2003/11/26 changes) which turned
1349 quoting on unnecessarily for radiobox, breaking some old scripts.
1350 + increase size of array in dlg_ok_labels() to avoid overrun if extra
1351 and help buttons are used (cf: 2002/06/12 changes).
1352 + initialize fkey variable in menubox.c and textbox.c (cf: 2003/07/12).
1354 2004/07/21 - release 1.0
1355 + minor updates for configure script, i.e., CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
1356 CF_NCURSES_LIBS macros.
1357 + update config.guess, config.sub
1358 + add nl.po (Jacques Weewer).
1361 + add --visit-items option, which allows the user to tab to the item
1362 list in the checklist/radiobox and menubox widgets (request by
1364 + use wide-character line-drawing for up/down arrows when configured
1365 for wide-characters, gives better results with uxterm.
1366 + limit the number of times a --file option can be used, to prevent
1367 runaway recursion if a --file option is embedded within a file which
1369 + improve discussion of wrapping in the manpage (Debian #251937).
1370 + modify msgbox to allow it to scroll vertically like textbox (Debian
1371 #233276). This only works with ncurses.
1372 + implement $DIALOGVARS environment variable to apply common options to
1373 dialog_vars when it is reset before processing other common options.
1374 + add --single-quoted option to control whether output is double-quoted
1375 with '"' or single-quoted with single-quotes.
1376 + revert the default quoting behavior of checklists to use
1377 double-quotes (report by Mark K Post regarding Slackware scripts).
1378 + add eu.po (Basque) (Piarres Beobide Egaa).
1379 + add ca.po (Catalan) (Jordi Mallach).
1382 + add a call to flushinp() to init_dialog(), to discard any typeahead
1383 before dialog is invoked (Debian #244746).
1384 + correct dlg_match_char() function, which was broken during rewrite
1385 to support wide-characters (Debian #244777).
1386 + improved ru.po, uses UTF-8 charset (Leonid Kanter, Redhat #119200).
1387 + correct position of shadow drawn for dialogs, which appeared to work
1388 for most versions of curses (other than NetBSD) but would have been
1389 visible for certain color schemes (discussion with Julian Coleman).
1390 + correct loop-exit in longest_word() (Tomas Heredia, forwarded by
1392 + add cy.po (Welsh) (Dafydd Harries).
1395 + modify quoting of results to use single-quote rather than double
1396 quote, and ensure that results containing a quote or backslash
1397 character are escaped (report by Florent Rougon)
1398 + remove an incorrect comparison from checklist which made cursor
1399 stick on the last line, from 2004/03/01 changes.
1402 + add a dependency to install library if "--with-libtool" is used.
1403 + add manpage for the library.
1405 + modify formbox.c to support "--help-status" like menubox.
1406 + modify checklist.c to add item name to the "HELP" string when
1407 "--help-button" is used and no --item-help option is given (Debian
1408 #236841, report/patch by Jorg Sommer).
1409 + rename colors.h to dlg_colors.h, install that when the library is
1411 + add copyright notice to usage ("--help") message.
1412 + correct a missing bounds check for mouse-clicks in menubox (prompted
1414 + updated several configure-script macros: AM_GNU_GETTEXT,
1415 AM_WITH_NLS, CF_OUR_MESSAGES, CF_PROG_EXT, CF_WITH_DBMALLOC,
1416 CF_WITH_DMALLOC, CF_WITH_LIBTOOL, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE.
1419 + improve layout of calendar widget to allow for very long button
1420 labels (report by Santiago Vila).
1421 + correct logic for $DIALOG_TTY, broken in 2003/11/30. The environment
1422 variable must evaluate to a nonzero integer (report by Florent
1424 + document interaction between "--default-no" and "--no-cancel" options
1425 in manpage (Debian #223488).
1426 + change configure script to use autoconf 2.52+patch, to work around
1427 issues with Estonian locale (report by Seemant Kulleen).
1428 + add uk.po (Ukrainian) (Debian #232441).
1429 + make --default-item apply to checklist widget (Debian #225255).
1430 + correct a missing check for --item-help when --help-status was given
1431 for checklist (Debian #232921).
1432 + correct a missing bounds check for mouse-clicks in checklist (Debian
1434 + update config.guess, config.sub
1437 + correct infinite loop in yesno widget when "--defaultno" option is
1438 combined with "--no-cancel" (Debian #223077).
1441 + suppress double-quotes added for "--help-status" option if the
1442 string does not contain any special characters.
1445 + add samples/sourcemage.rc, for comparison with slackware.rc
1446 + add "--insecure" option (request by Sean Mathews (DrWho@f34r.com)).
1447 + make "--defaultno" option apply to widgets which use OK/Cancel
1448 buttons as well (Debian #209030).
1449 + improve documentation of exit-codes for each widget in the manpage
1451 + add option "--keep-window" to suppress repainting after completing
1452 each widget (request by Ingo van Lil).
1453 + add options "--yes-label" and "--no-label" to allow override of the
1454 "Yes" and "No" strings (request by Christoph Zwerschke).
1455 + add option "--help-status" to allow script to restore a checklist
1456 or radiolist after processing an item-help string (Debian #209031).
1457 + modify width-calculation for non-formatted text to ensure it is
1458 wide enough for the longest word in the text (patch by Andrew Gaul).
1459 + modify dlg_index_columns() to count a newline as a single cell rather
1460 than 2 for the normal curses case. This fixes an off-by-one for
1461 the text-justification, shown in screen 2 of msgbox1 sample script.
1462 + fix dlg_char_to_button(); 2003/09/10 changes made it incorrectly
1463 ignore case of the labels.
1464 + change calendar's use of arrow keys so they are (as before 2002/06/22)
1465 interpreted within the day-grid as movement within that grid (request
1467 + correct missing initialization of last_getc variable in dlg_getc()
1468 (report/analysis by Victor Wodecki).
1469 + modify main program to make
1470 dialog --no-shadow --print-maxsize
1471 work. Normally dialog prints the screen size after subtracting the
1472 area reserved for shadows, but some applications may need the actual
1473 screen size (Debian #213424).
1474 + several related changes (Debian #213425):
1475 + separate the examples using "--stdout" and "--output-fd" from the
1476 normal usage examples.
1477 + add "--input-fd" option, provide a sample of its use.
1478 + modify init_dialog() to use initscr() unless a "--stdout" option
1479 was used. Some scripts relied on the coincidence that redirecting
1480 standard output from dialog would "work". Before this change
1481 init_dialog() assumed that redirected standard output was
1482 synonymous with "--stdout" option (not the intended behavior).
1483 + modify command-line parsing to look for "--stdout" and "--stderr"
1484 options first, allowing only one.
1485 + add a check for an environment variable $DIALOG_TTY which provides
1486 the older behavior, i.e., try to open the terminal directly if
1487 stdout is redirected.
1488 + interface changes, to make libdialog simpler to use:
1489 + rename all of the internal functions to begin with "dlg_", but
1490 provide compatibility with older names if the application defines
1491 __DIALOG_OLD_NAMES__.
1492 + add dialog_version() function, and corresponding DIALOG_VERSION and
1493 DIALOG_PATCHDATE definitions to dlg_config.h
1494 + eliminate remaining global variables such as screen_initialized in
1495 favor of dialog_state and dialog_vars.
1496 + move some data such as dialog_vars.output to dialog_state, since
1497 they are normally not reset between widgets.
1498 + change interfaces of dialog_yesno() and dialog_checklist() to use
1499 dialog_state.defaultno and dialog_vars.separate_output, making it
1500 simpler and more consistent.
1501 + improve configure script and related definitions:
1502 + add "--with-libtool" option to provide shared library support by
1504 + rename generated "config.h" to "dlg_config.h", so it can be
1505 installed without naming conflict. Added "dlg_config.h" to
1507 + modify configure script and makefile to use EXEEXT and OBJEXT.
1508 + add "--enable-widec" option to control whether wide-curses features
1509 are compiled-in, rather than check for the existence of those in
1510 the curses library. This allows building with HPUX curses, which
1511 has abandoned legacy features while not quite supporting X/Open
1513 + add configure check for getbegx(), etc., which are not provided on
1515 + update config.guess, config.sub
1518 + update hu.po (Arpad Biro).
1519 + revert part of the 2003/08/18 change to "--stdout" option. Using
1520 stderr for screen output does not work well on several platforms
1521 since stdout's settings are affected (report by Kent Robotti).
1524 + modify tailbox to allow it to display files with arbitrarily long
1526 + fix an infinite loop in tailbox, broken when making interface changes
1527 to dlg_getc() (report by Ingo van Lil).
1528 + amend fix for "--and-widget" to not treat "---" as an option (report
1530 + updated es.po (Santiago Vila).
1533 + correct "RENAMED" result from inputmenu widget, which did not reset
1534 the result buffer, and did not account for scroll-offset (Debian
1536 + modify button, menu and checklist logic that matches a character to
1537 the beginning of a text field to support wide-characters (completes
1539 + modify configure script to not use "head -1".
1542 + modify searchbox popup in textbox widget so one can simply press
1543 return on an empty input to cancel the popup.
1544 + modify error reporting to avoid clearing screen if a problem is
1545 found in the ".rc" file.
1546 + add color/attribute combinations for form widget (based on patch by
1548 + combine rc-file colors, attribute- and color-tables to obtain a
1549 single table for color values, which requires less work to add new
1551 + modify fselect widget to make back-tab work again, since it was
1552 broken by the rewrite of dlg_edit_string().
1553 + modify howmany_tags() so it will quit searching when it finds any
1554 option, not only "--and-widget" (Debian #206636).
1555 + correct call to dlg_print_text() in print_line(), which did not
1556 account for hidden characters (report/patch by David Poole).
1557 + modify print_button() to display properly if locale defines ok/cancel
1558 or yes/no buttons that contain multibyte characters.
1561 + correct an indexing error when deleting from the end of a line using
1562 KEY_DC; it happened to work on Linux because malloc() clears memory
1564 + add '\r' to case statement where '\n' is translated to KEY_ENTER to
1565 work around defect in NetBSD curses.
1566 + modify configure check for getparyx(), etc., which are implemented
1567 by NetBSD curses as functions rather than macros.
1568 + correct configure check for term.h, which may be <ncursesw/term.h>
1569 if ncursesw development headers are installed, but not ncurses
1570 development headers. Or they may not coincide (Debian #206287).
1573 + modify checklist.c and menubox.c to display tags properly if they
1574 contain wide-characters.
1575 + better solution for initializing curses when "--stdout" option is
1576 used, e.g., use stderr for the output if it is a tty. Also correct
1577 the error handling, so dialog exits with an error if it cannot
1578 find a way to do output (Debian #205509).
1579 + modify sample scripts to use consistent definition of $DIALOG
1581 + add UTF-8 examples inputbox6-utf8, inputbox6-utf8 (from Tomohiro
1582 Kubota, Debian #195674).
1583 + modify print_line() to work with wide-characters, e.g., so it handles
1584 wrapping for double-width characters.
1585 + cache results from multibyte character indices, speeds up cursor
1587 + modify form widget to support scrolling and mouse-selection.
1588 + add form widget (based on patch by Reznic Valery).
1589 + correct mouse-handling for inputmenu widget.
1590 + corrections to menu.c: location of clearing operation, and height of
1591 rows in code for older ncurses versions (patch by Reznic Valery).
1592 + improve logic that compensates for xterm's alternate-screen by
1593 cancelling the rmcup/smcup strings after the rmcup has been issued.
1594 That ensures that dialog will not clear the screen on exit (report
1596 + modify initialization between widgets to retain the values for the
1597 --aspect, --separate-widget and --tab-len options.
1598 + add --separator as an alias for --separate-widget (compatible with
1600 + correct handling of Xdialog's --icon and --wmclass options, whose
1601 parameter was not ignored.
1602 + correct logic for --separate-widget so its string is written before
1603 each output, rather than only for --and-widget option (report by
1605 + improve limit-check in center_label() for buttons.c (report by Tor
1607 + correct layout of --menu widget, which reduced display width due to
1608 logic for --inputmenu being applied whether or not that configuration
1609 was used (reports by Javier Kohen, Dimitar Zhekov and MAL
1610 <mal@komcept.com>). Fixes Debian #201215.
1611 + modify gauge widget to support --begin option (Hans-Joachim Baader).
1612 + updated pl.po (Jaroslaw Swierczynski).
1613 + hide cursor while painting gauge.
1614 + add auto-sizing logic to gauge widget (reports by Javier Kohen and
1618 + rewrote inputstr.c, allowing it to enter and display wide-characters.
1619 Some nonprinting characters such as control/B can be edited as well.
1620 + modify timebox to allow user to type numbers into the fields.
1621 + change interfaces of dlg_getc(), mouse_wgetch(), etc., to add
1622 parameter that returns whether the result is really a function-key.
1623 This is needed to work with wide-character curses.
1624 + correct computation of week-number in calendar widget (report by
1626 + updated configure script macros:
1627 + suppress -Winline with gcc 3.3, since it is broken.
1628 + fix caching bug in CF_UTF8_LIB
1629 + improved script for CF_BUNDLED_INTL.
1630 + update config.guess, config.sub
1633 + add null-pointer checks to some malloc calls which were overlooked.
1634 + correct logic in dlg_add_result(), which did not copy content of
1635 non-allocated buffer to the first allocation (report by Daniel
1639 + correct an uninitialized value in dlg_add_result() (Debian #182683).
1642 + corrected print_line(), which subtracted the margin twice from the
1643 right-limit, making a string wrap unnecessarily (Debian #168823).
1644 + correct initial limit-check for arrows in checklist.c, which used
1645 the wrong variable, showing the bottom arrow when it should not
1647 + modify driver to always call show_result(), to simplify updates.
1648 + fix several memory leaks, important if dialog is run with a large
1649 number of widgets (report by albert.veli@telia.com forwarded by
1651 + check if the screen output is actually to the terminal before trying
1652 to suppress xterm's alternate screen mode (see 2000/01/18) (report by
1654 + use dialog_vars.input_result consistently to return the text which is
1655 printed after a widget completes. In many cases, dialog now
1656 allocates enough space to hold the text, rather than use a fixed
1657 buffer. The checklist widget was writing directly to the output to
1658 avoid limits of the fixed buffer.
1659 + modify dialog.c to also write dialog_vars.input_result if the
1660 Help-button was pressed (request by Amon Ott).
1661 + add hu.po (Arpad Biro).
1662 + update fr.po, pt.po, pt_BR.po to add strings for "Help" button (patch
1663 by Frederic L W Meunier).
1664 + fix off-by-one error in menu.c, checklist.c (reported by
1665 Tomasz Wasiak 2002/09/15 and others:
1666 Andrew Gaul 2002/11/12,
1667 Tobias C Rittweiler 2002/11/19,
1668 Arpad Biro 2003/01/21).
1669 + updated configure script, improving checks for ncurses in various
1670 locations, updated NLS script to match lynx. Added --with-curses-dir
1672 > Tobias C Rittweiler:
1673 + make ifdef in mousewget.c consistent with usage in dialog.h
1674 + use beep() rather than flash() in dlg_edit_string(), for consistency
1675 with the other functions.
1676 + change order of buttons so extra button falls between Ok/Cancel.
1677 + fix so "dialog --print-maxsize" exits from curses.
1678 + add --inputmenu option.
1681 + modify checklist.c and menubox.c to treat the extra button like the
1682 "Ok" button by making dialog print the chosen items (request by
1683 Tobias C Rittweiler).
1684 + add examples checklist6 and menubox6 to illustrate the --colors
1686 + implement -colors option, which allows one to highlight words in the
1687 titles and most text areas with color or video attributes (adapted
1688 from patch by Tobias C Rittweiler).
1689 + add examples inputbox4, inputbox5 to illustrate how to use the
1690 --output-fd option, and how to use dialog without any temporary
1692 + add --output-fd option (Debian #153984).
1693 + documented vi-style keys for calendar, textbox widgets in manpage.
1696 + improve mouse handling, e.g., for up/down scrolling in calendar,
1698 + add --extra-button and --extra-label options (adapted from patch
1699 by Tobias C Rittweiler).
1700 + correct displayed cursor position in inputbox when returning to the
1701 input area after traversing the buttons with tabs, etc.
1702 + add left/right arrows for traversal in calendar and timebox dialogs.
1703 + implement two new functions dlg_next_ok_buttonindex() and
1704 dlg_prev_ok_buttonindex(), using these to hide details about the
1705 traversal over buttons in several widgets.
1706 + modify checklist.c and menubox.c to verify if both --help-button and
1707 --item-help are specified before assuming that selecting the help
1708 button should cause the "HELP {item-help}" message to be printed
1709 (reported by Marcel Ritter).
1710 + modify init_dialog() to work around HP's broken tty driver (report by
1711 John Mudd). Specifically, the problem is that when opening /dev/tty
1712 directly (to support the --stdout option), the terminal does not
1713 change to raw mode. The workaround opens /dev/tty only as needed;
1714 the --stdout option does not work on HPUX but otherwise dialog works.
1715 + updated el.po (patch by kromJx <kromJx@crosswinds.net>).
1717 2002/05/19 - release 0.9b
1718 + add --no-collapse option to allow one to retain tabs and repeated
1719 blanks in a message box (request by Roberto Simoni).
1720 + use DLG_EXIT_ESC constant rather than -1's in several places. This
1721 has the effect of changing some exit-with-error cases to denote that
1722 the exit was because ESC was pressed (patch by Diego Alvarez,
1723 forward by Santiago Vila).
1724 + bump package version to 0.9b (with patch-date, as usual).
1725 + add --exit-label option (request by Roberto Simoni).
1726 + updated de.po to correct translation for "Cancel" (from Michael
1727 Piefel, Debian #146402).
1728 + use definitions from autoconf macro AC_HEADER_TIME to ensure that
1729 time() is properly prototyped.
1730 + update pl.po, adding translation for "Help" (patch by Jaroslaw
1731 Swierczynski <swiergot@hacking.pl>).
1732 + update COPYING file, to reflect address change of FSF (reported by
1734 + update some configuration script macros: CF_CHECK_CACHE,
1735 CF_CURSES_CPPFLAGS, CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_MAKEFLAGS.
1736 + correct misuse of "$with_XXX" variables in the configure script,
1737 which prevented configuration against curses library as opposed to
1739 + update config.guess, config.sub
1742 + modify geometry of samples/fselect scripts to allow them to run in
1743 a 24x80 screen (report/patch by Santiago Vila).
1744 + correct exit-code for menubox.c when Cancel is pressed. This was
1745 unintentionally altered when adding --help-button (reported by
1746 Patrick J Volkerding)
1749 + add --timeout option, which forces the program to exit with an error
1750 if no user response is given within the specified number of seconds
1751 (request by <andrew@argoncorp.com>).
1752 + modify calendar widget to allow day/month/year values to default to
1753 the current date (request by <Ron.Perrella@bellsouth.com>).
1754 + modify display of buttons in checklist.c and menubox.c to handle the
1755 case where the button label is empty (Debian #134388).
1756 + extended logic for ok/cancel/help to make this work with checklist
1758 + revert pt_BT.po, apply changes to pt.po (report by Frederic L W
1760 > several changes from Stanislav Ievlev:
1761 + add options --help-button and --help-label to make menubox display a
1762 third button which can be used to return an exit code causing the
1763 calling script to show extended help information.
1764 + use home/end keys in input string-editing, e.g., inputbox.
1765 + add option --max-input to limit length of string returned by inputbox
1766 and other widgets which allow the user to edit a string.
1769 + add --ok-label and --cancel-label options (request by Kyle Sallee).
1770 + correct usage message for --fselect option (reported by Patrick J
1772 + add samples/debian.rc, for comparison with slackware.rc
1773 + corrected samples/slackware.rc, which was just the compiled-in
1774 default values (patch by Patrick J Volkerding).
1775 + modify search rule for rc-file to add a global rc file /etc/dialogrc
1776 (patch by Patrick J Volkerding).
1777 + updated pt_BR.po with modified entries for fselect.c (Frederic L W
1779 + add pl.po (Swiergot <swiergot@l02.ids.czest.pl>).
1782 + modify command-line parsing to allow a "--" argument to act as an
1783 escape, so the next argument is not recognized as an option if it
1784 begins with "--". This is apparently one of popt's undocumented
1785 features, upon which some Debian scripts depend (Debian #116642).
1786 + add da.po (Morten Brix Pedersen <morten@wtf.dk>).
1787 + add an install-strip rule to makefile, changing the normal install
1788 rule to not strip the installed executable (based on discussion with
1790 + initialize my_output variable if user cannot open /dev/tty, e.g., if
1791 su'd to another user (patch by Richard Braakman (<dark@ssh.com>), Debian
1793 + add configure option --with-ncursesw, to allow configure/build with
1794 wide-character version of ncurses.
1797 + add option --ignore, to make dialog be ignore options that it does
1799 + add option --trim, to trim literal newlines and repeated spaces from
1800 text that will be displayed. Add samples/msgbox2, which is the
1801 same as msgbox1, but using --trim (cf: change for Debian #102942).
1802 + minor correction to attributes for buttons.c to use active_attr on
1803 the right-side of a button.
1804 + add a sample dialog rc-file slackware.rc based on diffs in hdasetup
1806 http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/slackware/slackware/source/a/hdsetup/
1807 (discussion with Frederic L W Meunier).
1808 + modify dialog.pl to avoid using a statically-named tempfile, allowing
1809 multiple processes to use this script (patch by James Ranson
1810 (<euclid80@yahoo.com>), Debian #110609).
1811 + correct fprintf() call in j_menu() function, i.e., "--menu" option,
1812 which did not guard against expanding '%' embedded in the parameters
1813 (Stavros Chatzistefanidis <sxatz@yahoo.com>).
1814 + add et.po (Ivar Smolin <okul@trenet.ee>).
1815 + update fr.po (Frederic L W Meunier).
1816 + modify to allow scripts to alter the exit codes, mainly to
1817 distinguish ESC and ERROR exits. This is done by setting a shell
1818 variable such as DIALOG_ESC to a new value (request by Petr Vandrovec
1819 (<vandrove@vc.cvut.cz>), Debian #99264)
1822 + use VPATH in makefile to support build with configure --srcdir, if
1823 the make program supports that. Note that samples/install/makefile
1824 is not generated, due to awkward limitation of autoconf script
1825 (reported by Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>).
1826 + add po/pt_BR.po (Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>).
1827 + correct sense of --enable/--disable shown in configure --help (report
1828 by Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>).
1829 + correct logic for --clear option, broken in 2000/07/02 (fixes Debian
1833 + porting fixes to work on AIX: flush output to work around bug in
1834 curses library, use ./killall in scripts to avoid conflict with
1835 AIX program by that name.
1836 + modify dlg_trim_string() to retain literal newlines if the string
1837 does not contain "\\n" strings, and to retain leading blanks on the
1838 resulting lines, for compatibility with older scripts (Debian
1840 + add charset specification to cs.po
1841 + change dates in CHANGES to consistent format, add el.po for Greek
1842 (patch by kromJx <kromJx@crosswinds.net>).
1843 + eliminate static globals (bss, data) from modules rc, tailbox,
1844 textbox using better parameter-passing convention, and const.
1845 + cleanup temporary files in a few of the sample scripts.
1846 + rewrote tailboxbg using select() rather than fork(), thereby
1847 eliminating lock-files. Only one process should be trying to display
1848 on the screen at any given time.
1849 + add error check to ensure that numeric parameters are really numbers.
1850 + correct off-by-one in error messages reporting too-few or too-many
1851 tokens for a given option (reported by George Mirchev).
1852 + fix typo in manpage, "textboxbg" where "tailboxbg" was meant
1853 (reported by George Mirchev <la@mail.techno-link.com>).
1854 + use DLG_EXIT_xxx symbols consistently for all exit codes.
1855 + updated es.po (patch by Santiago Vila).
1856 + updates for some configure script macros from lynx: CF_MAKEFLAGS,
1857 CF_NCURSES_VERSION, CF_PROG_EXT.
1858 + fixes to compile if <term.h> is included, e.g., when building with
1859 AIX curses (report by Suzi Dowson <Suzi.Dowson@capgemini.co.uk>).
1862 + updated dialog.pot
1863 + modify fselect.c to work with autosize, i.e., given height and width
1864 zero (report by Martin Povolny).
1865 + add a null-pointer check in justify_text(), needed by fselect.c
1866 + add several more options which dialog can safely ignore, from
1868 + refinements for configure macros checking for $CPPFLAGS, from lynx.
1869 + update config.guess, config.sub to match autoconf 2.50
1870 > Martin Povolny <martin@solnet.cz>:
1872 + use nl_langinfo() to customize names for day-of-week, and month
1875 > Vincent Stemen <dialog@AdvancedResearch.org>:
1876 Fixed dialog.c to not pass menu items through dlg_trim_string().
1877 Stripping extra spaces out of the menu items broke some of my
1878 scripts by altering the string that it compared to know which menu
1879 item was selected. There should be no need to do justification on
1880 the menu items, which are always one line, anyway.
1883 > Vincent Stemen <dialog@AdvancedResearch.org>:
1884 + rewrote the text justification code to be able to have preformatted
1885 text in the prompts with extra spaces like the older versions of
1886 dialog. If there are "\n" strings in the text, then extra spaces are
1887 preserved. Lines are always wrapped on word boundaries.
1888 + fixed --cr-wrap to break lines on '\n' (newline) characters and not
1889 add an extra line at the top and bottom of the text. It now works
1890 as the manual says it should.
1891 + it is no longer necessary to use "\n\" at the end of lines to escape
1892 the '\n' character. "\n" now works. However, the old way, "\n\"
1894 + the fixes involved the following changes:
1895 - rewrote dlg_trim_string() to recognize preformatted text (know
1896 when not to strip extra spaces) and to pay attention to --cr-wrap.
1897 - rewrote justify_text() which now calls a new function in util.c,
1898 print_line(), to print each line and end it on a word boundary.
1899 - modified real_auto_size() to call a new function
1900 auto_size_preformated() to calculate the box size for preformatted
1902 - removed skip_blanks() and skip_text() since they are not used by
1903 the new justify_text().
1904 - modified dialog.c to not call dlg_trim_string() on title strings
1905 so that titles retain their spaces.
1906 + modified the following demo files in the sample directory:
1908 changed all "\n\" strings to "\n" to demonstrate the extra
1909 backslash is no longer needed.
1911 removed all the "\n\" strings from the end of the lines to
1912 properly demonstrate --cr-wrap.
1914 this sample was using "--aspect 9 --cr-wrap". Rewrote it to
1915 properly demonstrate --aspect. 9 is already dialog's default
1916 aspect ratio. It now creates several dialogs in sequence,
1917 demonstrating aspect ratios of 9, 12 and 6 and properly
1918 demonstrates --cr-wrap.
1919 + made the following changes to the manual (dialog.1).
1920 - rewrote the description of --aspect to be more understandable.
1921 - rewrote the description of --cr-wrap to be more correct and more
1922 detailed. It did say, "Otherwise, the text for each dialog will
1923 display on a single line.", which is not correct. It wraps the
1924 text to fit in the box.
1926 + use logic from menubox dialog in checklist to handle autosizing when
1927 list height is given as zero (fixes problem reported by Eric Veltman
1928 <eveltman@baan.nl>).
1929 + modify checklist and menubox dialogs to check for too-wide data, and
1930 truncate one or both of the name and text fields to fit (also
1931 reported by Eric Veltman).
1932 + corrected a few items from Vincent's patch:
1933 - use C89-style comments rather than C++
1934 - restore logic in justify_text() which checks for win==0, needed to
1935 work with standard curses implementations other than ncurses.
1936 The first call on justify_text() passes a null pointer as a flag
1937 to indicate that checking should be done, but no screen updates.
1938 - avoid modifying the buffer in decode_percent(), otherwise a message
1939 containing a space or newline would be truncated at the whitespace.
1940 - modify dlg_button_x_step() and dlg_button_layout() slightly to
1941 work with altered print_autowrap(), etc.
1942 + fixes to build/work with SunOS 4.x 5lib curses
1945 + fix a memory leak in mouse_region().
1946 + simplify handling of optional parameters with new functions
1947 optional_str() and optional_num().
1948 + add calendar and timebox dialogs (compatible with Xdialog).
1949 + correct typo in fallback definition for getparyx, and remove void
1950 cast for mouse_open and mouse_close which prevented build with
1951 Sun's Solaris compiler.
1952 + rename --enable-lxdialog configure option to --enable-Xdialog
1953 + modify CF_NCURSES_CPPFLAGS macro to match more variations of ncurses
1955 + update config.guess, config.sub
1956 + modify some configure script macros to avoid problems with buggy
1957 autoconf 2.49c which breaks changequote().
1960 + small fix to revised real_auto_size() and justify_text() to avoid
1961 adding origin to box-width, which broke samples/wheel.
1962 + apply 1999/12/25 tempfile change to wheel and copismall samples.
1963 + add sample script for tailboxbg.
1964 + revised lock-file management to better ensure that locks are actually
1965 created by the tailbox subprocess(es).
1966 + correct hardcoded signal 15 in tailbox to SIGHUP to match
1967 documentation. Signal 15 is usually SIGTERM, which cannot be caught.
1968 + correct off-by-one comparison of return-value for arg_rest() which
1970 dialog --gauge test 10 50
1971 dump core because it expected a 4th parameter (fixes Debian #80641).
1972 + resync config.sub, config.guess from
1973 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/config/ (which finally have
1974 cases for OS/2 EMX), minor tweaks to related configure script macros.
1977 + restore treatment of predefined height/width in real_auto_size()
1978 which was lost in 2000/12/12 rewrite (report by Raphael Halimi
1979 <raphaelh@easynet.fr>).
1980 + updates for configure script macros AM_PATH_PROG_WITH_TEST,
1981 CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_LIB_PREFIX, CF_PROG_EXT for $PATHSEP and $CFLAGS
1985 + correct change for create_lock(), which resulted in an infinite loop
1986 (patch by Chris Butler, <chrisb@debian.org>).
1989 + rewrote print_autowrap() and real_auto_size() to share common code
1990 justify_text(), which now does text flow even when the string
1991 contains newlines (fixes Debian #77199).
1992 + improve create_lock() function using open() with O_EXCL rather than
1993 fopen() (patch by Matt Kraai (<kraai@debian.org>), Debian #78951).
1994 + correct description of --fselect in man page (patch by Tomas Pospisek
1995 (<tpo@spin.ch>), Debian #77200).
1996 + add --no-cancel as alias for --nocancel for compatibility with
1997 Xdialog (report by Luis E Limon <luisl@abriasoft.com>).
2000 + some lint fixes using lclint (mostly void-casts, but some
2001 sign-extension fixes e.g., for ctype.h macros, and loop in
2002 dlg_char_to_button()).
2003 + modified to build/run on OS/2 EMX with ncurses.
2004 + minor changes to po/*.po (trim trailing blanks, provide explicit
2005 translation for "OK"), to work with Solaris gettext.
2006 + modified to allow this to build with archaic version (1.8.6)
2007 of ncurses on FreeBSD 3.1 (does not run).
2008 + update config.guess, config.sub from subversions.gnu.org
2011 + use new function sub_window() to check success/failure of calls to
2012 subwin(), printing an error message if it fails (fixes Debian #74903).
2013 + use combination of isatty/ttyname to look for workable tty device
2014 on systems which have no /dev/tty, e.g., BeOS.
2017 + change exiterr() to use stdarg.h, make some messages easier to
2019 + add dialog_clear()
2020 + make samples/install/setup build.
2021 + implemented mouse support for buttons, e.g., in yesno dialog using
2022 ncurses (the gpm support no longer works, but is useful for reference)
2023 + add a configure check for chtype.
2024 + updates for configure script macros (CF_BUNDLED_INTL, CF_CURSES_LIBS,
2025 CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_GCC_WARNINGS, CF_INCLUDE_DIRS), and scripts
2026 config.guess, config.sub
2027 + cleanup of item-help change, integrate with checklist and radiobox.
2028 + add ja.po, from Hirofumi Takeda <takepin@turbolinux.co.jp>.
2029 > patch by Marco Mariani <marcom@sferacarta.com>
2030 + add --item-help option, which makes menubox data interpreted as
2031 3 columns rather than 2. The third column is displayed on the
2032 last line of the screen as a help/status message for the currently
2035 + change TAG_KEY_HL to FALSE, making unselected items in checklist
2036 easier to read on Linux console.
2039 + change real_auto_size() to allow it to be used for dialogs that have
2040 no prompt, e.g., fselect. Also, rather than requiring both height
2041 and width to be given as -1 for maximizing the dialog, allow either
2043 + increase minimum height needed for autosized yesno dialog.
2044 + add --version as an alias for --print-version.
2045 + fix for build on Solaris without NLS (cannot redefine 'gettext()').
2046 + add fselect dialog (compatible with Xdialog).
2047 + add --enable-lxdialog configure option.
2048 + use new configure macro CF_ARG_MSG_ENABLE to show progress with
2049 enable/disable switches.
2052 + implement --stdout and --stderr options as in Xdialog.
2053 + move logic that translates "\\n" into '\n' into main program to
2054 simplify logic that formats text.
2055 + make ifdef's for rc-file not specific to ncurses.
2056 + correct logic making percent parameter of gauge optional.
2059 + add alternate test-script for gauge, adapted from Xdialog.
2060 + modify gauge to make optional a percentage which was read at the
2061 beginning of the XXX-delimited message text, since clones of dialog
2062 are written to assume this is text. If the line is not a simple
2063 integer, dialog will treat it as text.
2064 + make the percent parameter of gauge optional, as in Xdialog.
2065 + undo one use of CharOf() in guage.c, an error.
2066 + fix configure macro AM_WITH_NLS to refrain from attempting to make a
2067 symbolic link into/libintl.h if we are not using the bundled intl
2068 directory from gettext (reported by Julian Coleman
2069 <J.D.Coleman@newcastle.ac.uk>).
2070 + add ru.po, from Michael Sobolev <mss@transas.com>
2071 + updates for config.guess, config.sub from tin.
2072 + updates for configure script macros: CF_MATH_LIB (improperly nested
2073 brackets/parenthesis) and CF_XOPEN_CURSES (make include of
2074 <*curses.h> depend on configure tests).
2077 + repaint screen when a control/L is pressed.
2078 + apply CharOf() macro to avoid sign-extension on calls to waddch(),
2079 fixes a problem with accented characters (reported by Santiago Vila).
2080 + add es.po, from Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>
2083 + modified to use gettext (configure option --enable-nls). This uses
2084 gettext 0.10.35, which must be previously installed. (It can also
2085 use an included intl library, but I consider that to be a waste of
2087 + remove code in checklist/radiobox, menubox that try to use
2088 abbreviations for the OK/Cancel buttons since those conflict with the
2089 check for abbreviations in list entries, which are more useful.
2090 + moved padding of button labels out of string literals, into the
2091 logic of dlg_draw_buttons().
2092 + resync/update with configure macros CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_FIND_LIBRARY,
2093 CF_HEADER_PATH, CF_LIBRARY_PATH and CF_NCURSES_LIBS, as well as
2094 mkdirs.sh and config.guess.
2097 + add --default-item option, for menubox to set the default selection
2098 (fixes Debian #49796).
2099 + add sample scripts for --nocancel and --fb options with inputbox.
2100 + modify inputbox* sample scripts to show application errors, if any.
2101 + add --nocancel option, and ignore --noitem, --fb, --fullbutton, to
2102 make this compatible with whiptail scripts. (whiptail does not
2103 handle many dialog scripts however).
2104 + modify checklist/radiobox to handle home, end, nextpage, prevpage
2105 keys, as well as make the abbreviation search work for the whole
2106 list, not only the current page.
2107 + treat KEY_LL the same as KEY_END in checklist and textbox.
2108 + add logic for KEY_BTAB.
2109 + use new function dlg_draw_buttons() to better manage the layout of
2110 yes/no/ok/cancel buttons.
2111 + another pass of cleanup of dialog.c, makes it use a single table for
2112 lookup of option names and help-message. Eliminated numerous
2113 adjustments to 'offset' variable.
2114 + on initialization, check if standard input is from a terminal. If
2115 not, open /dev/tty (fixes Debian #57771)
2118 + implement inline editing in textbox.c search dialog.
2119 + revise inputbox.c, allowing inline editing with arrow-keys. removed
2120 redundant logic in that module.
2121 + correct a typo that prevented rc-file configuration from building.
2122 + correct ifdef's to compile/run if the curses implementation does not
2126 + improve test-case for gauge.
2127 + change gauge.c to show progress in reverse-video, add a check for
2128 end-of-file in the loop for reading new messages.
2129 + use curses whline() function to simplify print_arrows() logic in
2130 checklist.c and menubox.c
2131 + use curses beep() function rather than hardcoded strings.
2132 + correct several compiler warnings for gcc -pedantic (mismatch of
2133 const, signed/unsigned).
2134 + modify exiterr() to avoid possible expansion of '%'.
2135 + change CF_MATH_LIB configure macro to allow specifying a particular
2136 test-function. For dialog, this should be sqrt(). The macro was
2137 originally written for ncurses, which needs sin(). However, that is
2138 a builtin function on the m68k port (reported by Roman Hodek
2139 <Roman.Hodek@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>, this fixes Debian #55553).
2142 + update manpage (Debian #25648).
2143 + modify configure test for math library to avoid using a constant
2144 parameter to the test function, lest gcc optimize the call away
2145 (fixes Debian #55553).
2146 + restructure help-message so actual problem is indicated. The original
2147 help-message is shown if no parameters are given, or if the --help
2148 option is specified alone.
2149 + suppress xterm's alternate screen mode by sending an exit_ca_mode
2150 after initscr if the terminal looks like xterm, e.g., has key_mouse
2151 defined, and has private-mode escapes in both enter_ca_mode and
2152 exit_ca_mode (fixes Debian #55181).
2153 + change yellow lettering on white to blue on white, since it offers
2154 better contrast (fixes Debian #51196).
2155 + use napms() rather than sleep().
2156 + some cleanup/simplification of main program. Indent'd dialog.c and
2158 + eliminate several places where repeated options are treated as
2159 an error, since they are really executed once anyway.
2162 + remove pre-autoconf Makefile
2163 + remove sleep's from a few of the sample scripts, which left users
2164 thinking that dialog was slow to complete an action.
2165 + rewrote infobox sample script, using dialog's --sleep option and
2166 a loop in the script.
2167 + change 'ch' variable in tailbox.c to an integer, because it is
2168 compared against EOF (fixes Debian #53157).
2169 + corrected mandir variable in makefile.in (reported by Santiago Vila).
2170 + small changes to sample scripts, from Debian: rename "guage" script
2171 to "gauge", change path to copy of GPL used in textbox.
2172 + add uninstall rule to makefile.in, fixed some dependencies so
2173 "make install" works without first doing "make all".
2176 + use more portable scheme for tempfile generation in samples.
2177 + add a configure script, prefer to not use the original Makefile
2178 because it works only with GNU make.
2179 + correct prototype of 'main()', which misused const.
2180 + modify guage.c to use fgets() rather than gets().
2181 + merge changes from Debian package maintainer
2182 Santiago Vila <sanvila@ctv.es>:
2185 + add a password dialog box (Debian #45964, patch by Joey Hess).
2186 + implement "--defaultno" option to specify if the default for
2187 the yes/no box is "No" (Debian #46076, patch by Joey Hess).
2189 + modify input.c to clear the input field to the right of the
2190 given string, to help with screen-refresh
2192 + check for list_height less than one in checklist.c (Debian
2195 + use function wscrl() in preference to scroll() in checklist.c
2196 and menubox.c (unclear: in ncurses, scroll() is a macro that
2198 + remove the "-I/usr/include/ncurses" option from Makefile
2199 since Debian does not install ncurses' header files into
2202 + simplify menubox.c using new functions print_arrows() and
2203 print_items(). add logic to handle KEY_NPAGE and KEY_PPAGE
2205 + modifications to provide sample scripts (Debian #26211):
2206 + change sample scripts to use Debian tempfile utility rather
2207 than putting files into /tmp.
2208 + change sample scripts to use 'dialog' from user's path
2209 rather than in the parent directory as in the build
2211 + use the system copy of GPL rather than that in the build
2212 directory as an example for the textbox script.
2215 + fix some gcc warnings about ambiguous use of "else"
2218 + cleaned up some of the redundant code with new functions:
2225 + modified msgbox.c and yesno.c to work with the KEY_RESIZE sigwinch
2226 handling in ncurses 4.2
2228 + corrected spelling of "gauge"
2230 The relevant portions of the Debian change log for the original version
2231 (dialog-0.9a-12) are abstracted here, omitting details of their packaging:
2235 + Replaced guage.c by the one in dialog 0.6z, which is known to work.
2236 Fixes Debian #18284: unstable dialog.
2240 + dialog.c: dialog_input_result printed with "%s" format. This was
2241 Debian #9913, fixed by Bill Mitchell, but the change was lost.
2242 + Pristine source, .depend is not removed in clean target. Instead, it
2243 is made zero length (otherwise it would not work *without* fakeroot).
2244 + Added '^U' support in input box (Debian #9915, patch by Joey Hess).
2245 + Wrote patch to fix core-dumping problem (Debian #13170). Sven Rudolph
2246 <sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de>: