1 -- $Id: CHANGES,v 1.777 2022/07/28 22:54:15 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 + initialize color-settings before --create-rc option is processed.
9 + add "use_scrollbar" setting in rc-file to use in whiptail.rc
10 + improve manual page discussion of "--" token.
11 + updated configure macro for math-library functions.
13 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
17 + fix links in manpages (FreeBSD #264660).
20 + document the built-in key bindings which are not part of widgets.
21 + updated da.po fa.po is.po, added ka.po from
22 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
26 + adjust fallback bindings for backspace/delete to match the curses
27 library's sense of backspace (Arch #74379).
28 + amend limit-checks to make --max-input work for sizes greater than
29 2048 (Debian #1004874).
32 + corrected limit-checks in checklist.c, menubox.c, and treeview.c when
33 resizing while the data is scrolled (Debian #1004868).
34 + improve logic for updating form-height after screen-resizing.
35 + move most of the non-API definitions from dialog.h to dlg_internals.h
36 + updated configure macros.
37 + update config.guess, config.sub
38 + updated es.po, tr.po from
39 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
42 + update test-package for Debian to use debhelper.
43 + adjust character-offset in editbox.c in case it is past the end of
44 the string after trimming (Debian #1003185).
46 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
49 + fix some inconsistent #if vs #ifdef.
50 + correct off-by-one limit for month when validating parameters of the
51 calendar widget (patch by "viverna", Debian #1000720).
52 + modify dlg_yes_labels to not switch to ok/cancel labels if the
53 extra button is used (report by Стрижак Андрей).
54 + move leak-checking definitions from dialog.h to dlg_internals.h
57 + use mktemp utility rather than tempfile for temporary filename in
58 the sample scripts (patch by Ville Skyttä).
59 + updated id.po, lt.po from
60 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
61 + update config.guess, config.sub
64 + directly include stddef.h for systems which need it for offsetof().
65 + modify gauge's handle_input function to use the file pointer in the
66 object in preference to the global dialog_state.
67 + correct height-computation for fselect and timebox, broken by fixes
68 for auto-layout (Debian #990043, cf: 2019/11/10).
69 + improve configure --with-no-leaks option
72 + amend adjustment to inputbox height so the autosized dimensions match
73 older versions (report by Werner Fink, cf: 2021/01/17).
74 + improve configure checks, to reduce warnings during those checks
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77 + update config.guess, config.sub
80 + improve configure checks, e.g., for libtool version
81 + updated ms.po, sr.po, zh_TW.po from
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83 + update config.guess, config.sub
86 + add configure option --enable-stdnoreturn to build when C11 _Noreturn
87 feature is enabled in recent ncurses development.
90 + updated de.po, ja.po, nl.po from
91 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
94 + add several usage-messages to dialog.pot
95 + improve configure-check for ld searchpath on HP-UX and Solaris.
96 + fix a few cppcheck warnings
97 + updated eo.po, fi.po, pt.po, sq.po, sv.po, ru.po, uk.po, zh_CN.po
99 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
103 + add option --no-hot-list, to allow suppressing the hotkey feature
105 + increase minimum height of inputbox to avoid input field overlapping
106 with the button-box (report by Victor Ananjevsky).
107 + modify options-parsing to permit a "no" on any boolean option and
108 deprecating the "no" options without a "-" , e.g., generalizing on
109 "--nook" equivalence to "--no-ok".
112 + minor spelling fixes, per codespell
113 + update configure macros, for quoting/escaping fixes per shellcheck
114 + update config.guess, config.sub
117 + modify configure script's compiler check to work around Xcode's
118 useless aliases for standard C.
119 + enable keep-tite feature for NetBSD 8 and up; earlier releases would
121 > new features/fixes (Glenn Herteg)
122 + add option "--cursor-off-label"
123 + add option "--erase-on-exit"
124 + fix errata in manpage.
125 + fix logic: dlg_button_to_char() would return wrong value if no
129 + add DIALOG_TIMEOUT to sample scripts, and use report-button more
130 consistently to handle unexpected exit-status values.
133 + add dlg_getenv_num() and dlg_getenv_str().
134 + add DLG_EXIT_TIMEOUT to allow scripts to exit on an expired timeout
135 with an exit-status different from DLG_EXIT_ERROR or DLG_EXIT_ESC
136 (patch by Norbert Koch).
139 + modify dlg_ok_label() and dlg_ok_labels() to ignore --no-ok if all
140 buttons would be omitted.
141 + add/use dlg_der_window() to account for derived windows just like
142 subwindows, to fix regression in dlg_getc() in fselect/dselect
144 + modify several widgets to make their handling of --no-ok consistent
145 with the majority of the widgets: editbox.c, menubox.c, msgbox.c,
146 rangebox.c, textbox.c, timebox.c
147 + add ^D as binding for new virtual key DLGK_LEAVE, which will close
148 the current dialog by activating the currently-selected button.
149 + improve manual-page description of --no-ok option (reports by
150 Hans Mueller, Gil Delescluse).
151 + modify configure script to make Solaris -R rpath feature work
154 + fix regression in dlg_getc() caused by not taking into account
155 subwindows used for input (report by Michael Wihl).
158 + add validity-checks for window pointer (report/testcase by Michael
160 + improve configure macros:
161 CF_CLANG_COMPILER: apply compiler-flags needed for test.
162 CF_WITH_SCREEN_PDCURSES: use this to reduce X11-checks.
165 + amend initialization for dlg_getc to fix regression in pause widget
166 from 2020/03/27 changes (reports by Aidan Tessier, Norbert Koch,
168 + improve configure macros:
169 CF_CLANG_COMPILER: split-out check for -Qunused-arguments to ensure
170 that clang supports it. IBM xlclang does not.
171 CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES: when cross-compiling to darwin (macOS),
172 assume the filesystem doesn't support mixed-case
175 + modify init_dialog's initialization of tab_len and aspect_ratio to
176 avoid overwriting initialization done in process_common_options
177 (report/patch by Rainer Weikusat, Debian #970508).
180 + fix out-of-order description for --tailbox vs --rangebox in manpage
181 (report by Glenn Herteg).
182 + updated configure-macros: compiler-warnings and shared-library
183 options. Changed configure --with-warnings to --enable-warnings for
185 + update config.guess
189 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
192 + add clarification in manual page to show when the single/double
193 quotes may be needed (prompted by discussion with Danilo G Baio).
194 + fix an extra ".exe" in makefile.in which prevented Cygwin build.
195 + fix most cppcheck warnings
196 + tailbox/tailboxbg's exit-button now works with mouse-clicks
197 + fix repainting while resizing for the editbox widget.
198 + add configure-check for curses_exit() from ncurses 6.2
199 + fix a few memory leaks in fselect.c, mixedgauge.c when resizing.
200 + fix inconsistency in dlg_string_to_argv() which made the checklist9
202 + add empty-string check in dlg_print_listitem() to avoid indexing past
203 the end of the array of character-offsets.
204 + improve handling of KEY_RESIZE by repainting the backtitle after
205 clearing the screen (integrated patch by Rainer Weikusat, Debian
207 + improve logic for wtimeout() calls which are used to set temporary
208 non-blocking reads (prompted by patch by Rainer Weikusat, Debian
210 + add "make check" rule.
211 + updated configure-macros.
214 + updated configure-macros, to work around ncurses vs xcode's c99 -W
215 + update config.guess
218 + updated configure-macros.
219 + update config.guess
222 + correct rc-file lookup of "default" color (report by Grady Martin,
224 + fix several issues in the sample scripts reported by shellcheck.
225 + fix a few spelling errors reported by codespell (report by Jens
227 + correct check for return-value of isblank(), which is not necessarily
228 0/1 (report/patch by Paul Cercueil, Peter Korsgaard, cf: 2018/05/31).
231 + amend change for parsing command-options before calling init_dialog,
232 to handle --no-shadow, etc., which are initialized in init_dialog
233 (report by Paul Cercueil, cf: 2018/06/21).
234 + add dlg_trace_va_msg to manpage, symbol files.
237 + improve layout of several widgets' data area when maximizing.
238 + modify dselect/fselect to work with autosizing (Debian #915949).
239 + add error messages from dlg_exiterr() to trace file.
240 + improve manual page description of escaping in key-bindings.
241 + modify inputmenu to recognize the "Cancel" button and keys bound to
242 that feature while editing a renamed menu item.
243 + revert one change, in form.c to the --last-key feature (Debian
245 + correct ordering of libraries in configure-script, which appended
246 in a case where it should have prepended.
247 + update config.guess, config.sub
250 + improve dialog-config script's filtering of -L options using the
251 linker default directories.
252 + improve dialog-config script, adding a -L option corresponding to
253 the configure --libdir option if it would be a duplicate (report by
255 + build-fix for configure --disable-trace
257 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
260 + allow for underline- and reverse-video flags in the ".rc" file
261 (integrated patch by Richard Robbins).
264 + amend change to --last-key feature to eliminate an unnecessary
265 separator (report by Gabriele Balducci).
268 + extend --last-key feature to the remaining widgets which have
269 ok/cancel buttons, and add logic to map keys which happen to be
270 bound to ok/extra/cancel/help to simulate a button-press on the
271 corresponding button (report by "sgewrk").
274 + further fixes for dialog-config.in (report by Andrew Kosteltsev).
277 + modify dialog-config.in so that setting prefix or exec-prefix to
278 a given value with --prefix=VALUE or --exec-prefix=VALUE has the
279 expected result of changing bindir, etc.
280 + correct substitution for $LIBS value in dialog-config.in (report by
284 + modify dlg_will_resize() and dlg_result_key() functions to reduce
285 the chance that dialog exits on a SIGWINCH (Debian #930775).
286 + make test-package for the development headers/library
287 + add --libs-only-L, etc., to dialog-config script (prompted by
288 discussion with Andrew Kosteltsev).
289 + fix a memory leak in gauge widget (Andrew Kosteltsev).
290 + minor fix for CF_GCC_WARNINGS
291 + update config.guess, config.sub
294 + modify to work with ncurses' threaded-library, which does not allow
295 assignment to LINES/COLS (report by Marcus Roeckrath).
296 + correct clearing after text in progressbox from 2018/06/21 changes
297 for resizing (reports by David Boyd, Alan Somers).
298 + improved configure macros CF_GNU_SOURCE, CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE,
300 + update config.guess, config.sub
303 + convert ja.po to UTF-8 for consistency (suggested by Stanislav
305 + repair mis-encoded hi.po (report/analysis by Stanislav Brabec).
308 + improved configure macros CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS, CF_LD_RPATH_OPT,
309 CF_LIBRARY_PATH, CF_SHARED_OPTS, CF_WITH_MAN2HTML,
310 CF_WITH_VERSIONED_SYMS from ncurses
312 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
315 + improve file-offset computation in textbox.c (Werner Fink).
316 + fix an overlooked case with real_auto_size() to maximize when
317 height or width is given as -1.
318 + build-fixes for configure options "--disable-Xdialog2" and
320 + add traces for each widget to show its parameters.
321 + modify color scheme for mixedgauge to use the dialog window colors,
323 + fix a too-small malloc in the mixedgauge widget.
324 + fix a use-after-free in dlg_remove_callback().
325 + improve handling of SIGWINCH for several widgets (Debian #865840).
326 + menubox, the point of the Debian report was that it would be nice
327 to increase the window size if the terminal size increases. Did
328 that as a special case less problematic than decreasing the
329 terminal size. Added samples/menubox11 to demonstrate by
330 comparison with menubox10 a problem with debconf which puts extra
331 newlines in the caption that interfere with autowrap.
332 + progressbox and derived prgbox, programbox, now handle resizing.
333 + yesno, window was cleared
334 + add dlg_ttysize() to support new options, allowing scripts to obtain
335 some text-formatting details without initializing the terminal.
336 + add options --print-text-only, and --print-text-size for scripts that
337 adjust the widget size according to how the captions are formatted.
339 + add demo.pl, to demonstrate the functions
340 + quote/escape string parameters passed to dialog.
341 + ensure all "integer" parameters are really integers.
342 + use actual screensize for list captions rather than assuming 24
344 + when trimming blanks, treat unconverted tabs the same as spaces.
345 + correct parameter to test when trimming blanks from the script,
346 e.g., with "--trim" (report by Jarno Suni).
347 + improve documentation of the various whitespace-filtering options,
348 to show which take precedence (Debian #867536, cf: Debian #102942).
349 + modify msgbox.c, yesno.c to bind SCROLLKEY_BINDINGS before
350 TRAVERSE_BINDINGS so that up/down arrow will by default scroll the
351 message up/down rather than be aliases for tab-traversal (report by
353 + modify dump_one_binding() to show when a binding is overridden.
354 + improve format of trace-file, making comment-syntax consistent,
355 as well as showing argv-splitting as a series of comments.
356 + modify dlg_string_to_argv() to change the quoting behavior to be
357 more consistent with shell behavior (patch by Denilson Sa Maia).
358 + modify dlg_getc() to return ESC when a timeout expires, notifying
359 callers that a quit occurred rather than exiting the application
360 (suggested by Rodrigo Freitas).
361 + modify handle_inputs() to ensure cursor-visibility is restored when
362 there is no input character available (report by Guillaume Vareille).
363 + improve comment in manual page regarding which widgets can use the
364 "--help-button" (prompted by discussion with Csanyi Pal).
365 + add a check for valid object pointer in tailbox's main loop since
366 the getc-callback may have been freed within ui_getc.c (report by
368 + improved configure macros for ncurses: CF_GNU_SOURCE, CF_SHARED_OPTS,
369 CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_CURSES_FUNCS, CF_NCURSES_CONFIG
370 + improved configure script checks for groff vs man2html:
371 CF_PROG_GROFF and CF_WITH_MAN2HTML
372 + build-fix from lynx for AM_WITH_NLS configure macro
373 + update config.guess, config.sub
376 + update ftp url in test-packages.
377 + modify test-packages to use recommended compiler/linker flags.
378 + improved configure macros AM_WITH_NLS, CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS,
379 CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_NCURSES_CONFIG, CF_SHARED_OPTS, CF_WITH_LIBTOOL,
381 + update config.guess, config.sub
384 + improved configure macros CF_ADD_CFLAGS, CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS, and
386 + updated hu.po and tr.po from
387 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
388 + update config.guess, config.sub
391 + use DLG_TRACE macro consistently to make "--disable-trace" configure
393 + modify buildlist widget to support option "--reorder" for to allow
394 user to reorder the data based on the sequence of selections
395 (discussion with Paraic O'Ceallaigh).
396 + fill background color on unused parts of buildlist.
397 + fix a minor error in buildlist which let pageup switch columns.
398 + change several calls to dlg_trace_msg to prefix with "#" to make
399 the trace logs more consistent for parsing.
400 + add samples/run_test.sh
401 + further improve performance with very long command-lines by changes
403 + modify dlg_string_to_argv() to convert escaped double-quotes to
404 plain double-quotes when within a double-quoted string.
405 + modify makefile to apply CFLAGS to linking
406 + modify dlg_string_to_argv() to ignore escaped newlines except when
407 quoted, fixing a problem with samples/checklist9.
408 + interpret $DIALOGOPTS before expanding "--file", etc., to allow
409 the environment variable to turn on tracing in that process.
410 + improve performance when processing very long command lines, e.g.,
411 using "--file" by changing dialog_opts[] to an array of pointers to
412 the expanded argv[] (discussion with Lars Tauber).
413 + modified autoconf macros
414 + CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS amend the last change to move only the
415 preprocessor, optimization and warning flags to CPPFLAGS and
416 CFLAGS, leaving the residue in CC. That happens to work for gcc's
417 various "model" options, but may require tuning for other compilers
418 + CF_LARGEFILE workaround for clang exit-code vs warnings
419 + CF_MATH_LIB quiet strict gcc warning
420 + CF_WITH_LIBTOOL fix a few places in configure/build scripts where
421 DESTDIR and rpath were combined
422 + CF_XOPEN_SOURCE add "uclinux" to list of Linux's
423 + update config.guess, config.sub
426 + added fur.po (Friulian) from
427 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
430 + improve parsing and trace for "bindkey", to convert space to/from
431 "\s", as well as handle octal escapes for single byte characters.
432 + change explicit checks for space character used for select or toggle
433 to make this rebindable to "TOGGLE" (prompted by discussion with
435 + add default bindings for cursor left/right to formbox. The cursor
436 left/right cases were replaced with rebindable symbols in 2005/12/07
437 without providing these keys as default values (report/patch by
439 + modified autoconf macros
440 + CF_PROG_LINT add cpplint to programs to use; drop ad hoc tdlint and
442 + CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS don't limit the check to -I, -U and -D options,
443 since the added options can include various compiler options before
444 and after preprocessor options.
445 + CF_GNU_SOURCE recent glibc (Debian 2.23-4 for example) has
446 misordered ifdef/checks for new symbol _DEFAULT_SOURCE, producing
447 warning messages when only _GNU_SOURCE is defined. Add a followup
448 check to define _DEFAULT_SOURCE.
449 + CF_XOPEN_SOURCE use _GNU_SOURCE for cygwin headers, tested with
450 cygwin 2.3, 2.5 (patch by Corinna Vinschen).
451 + mention --no-collapse option in manual page description of
452 --tab-correct option.
453 + update config.guess, config.sub
456 + fix a special case in drawing shadow on a line-drawing cell where the
457 alternate-character set flag was lost (report by Martin Kravec).
458 + fix a regression from 2015/05/13 changes for escaping; it is
459 necessary to retain backslashes within quotes to make "\Z" escapes
460 work (report by Marcin Krol).
461 + fix test package for RPMs; changes in 2015 omitted symbolic links
463 + fix typo in help message for "--buildlist" (report by Rihards Olups).
464 + modified autoconf macros
465 + CF_PROG_AR, CF_AR_FLAGS added to improve check for archive tool.
466 + CF_LD_RPATH_OPT, change FreeBSD to use -Wl,-rpath rather than
467 -rpath option. According to FreeBSD #178732, either works since
468 FreeBSD 4.x; however scons does not accept anything except the
470 + CF_WITH_NCURSES_ETC, change from ncurses to check for pthreads
474 + modify editbox widget to add a trailing newline if the text has none
475 to ensure the last line is not ignored (report by Florent Rougon).
476 + change mouse initialization to look for button-presses rather than
477 button-clicks, for better response.
478 + modify dump_curses_key() to show mouse-coding in readable form.
479 + correct mapping of mouse-clicks on the day-grid in calendar widget
480 when "--week-start" is used to set the start of the week (report by
482 > integrated changes from Stefan Vogtner:
483 + use Gregorian algorithm for leap year
484 + use mktime if available; calendar was written just as it became
487 2016/01/26 - release 1.3
488 + correct --infobox documentation, which said it shows an OK button.
489 + fix a couple of place in test-scripts which referred to $SIG_TRAP
490 rather than $SIG_QUIT
491 + reorganize dialog.3, to use subsections for generating navigation
493 + add "--week-start" option for calendar widget (prompted by discussion
494 with Stefan Vogtner).
495 + add a limit-check in editbox.c to ensure that mouse-clicks outside
496 the filled-in text area do not access past the end of the array
497 (report by Stefan Vogtner).
498 + update configure macros from ncurses changes.
499 + update config.guess, config.sub
502 + decrease table value for minimum number of arguments for the widgets
503 which use --no-items option (report by Raven Singularity).
504 + update configure macros:
505 + use $SHELL consistently, deprecate non-POSIX shell
506 + PKG_CONFIG may simply be unset - fix
507 + add option to allow changing ABI version, from ncurses6.
510 + fixes for two autoconf macros, CF_ADD_INCDIR and CF_NCURSES_CONFIG
511 from work on ncurses.
512 + build-fix for NetBSD curses (patch by Matthias Scheler).
515 + add configure option --with-install-prefix, like ncurses.
516 + add --with-screen and related configure options from ncurses-examples
517 to allow building with ncurses6 test-packages.
518 + update configure macros for improved coding style from lynx changes.
520 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
521 + update config.guess, config.sub
522 > patches by Florent Rougon:
523 + fix two bugs in the "--file" option.
524 + When the number of arguments read from the included file is 0, the
525 code used to just skip over '--file' and its argument instead of
526 removing them from the argument list, causing "Error: Unknown
527 option --file" later on.
528 + In the alternative case (at least one argument read from the file),
529 the previous code used to do '--j;' in order to "force rescan" of
530 the inserted arguments. However, control then flowed to outer
531 blocks where a '++j;' counteracted this measure, causing "Error:
532 Unknown option --msgbox" (for instance) later on.
533 + modify escaping in argv.c to be more uniform, whether or not the
534 backslash is found within a parameter.
537 + modify gauge widget to keep from erasing a second gauge widget, e.g.,
538 via the "--and-widget" option. This is a cosmetic change to match
539 behavior of dialog 1.0 (report by Jason Orendorf).
540 + add configure option "--with-man2html"
541 + add configure options for versioned symbols, from ongoing work on
543 + update configure macros, e.g., for shared libraries
546 + suppress highlighting of character which denotes an abbreviation or
547 shortcut for the OK/Cancel and other buttons for these widgets, which
548 use abbreviations for the list shown on the screen: buildlist,
549 checklist/radiobox, menubox, treeview (Debian #775295).
550 + add grid up/left and down/right bindings in editbox.c as synonyms for
551 field prev and next, respectively when handling the OK/Cancel buttons
555 + correct malloc-size for change to prgbox.
558 + fixes to make "-c" option work when passing command to shell for the
559 prgbox widget, for example in samples/prgbox2 (report by Korantin
563 + fix an out-of-bounds array index in buildlist widget (report by
567 + add configure check for groff, needed for html/ps/pdf output.
568 + update configure-script macros:
569 + CF_ACVERSION_CHECK - work around another gratuitous incompatibility
571 + CF_ADD_CFLAGS - workaround for ash-shell, e.g., with Minix
572 + CF_ADD_LIBS - filter out duplicates
573 + CF_CURSES_FUNCS - improve workaround for weak-linkage, seems to fix
574 tests with NetBSD 6.1
575 + CF_INTEL_COMPILER - clean up the -no-gcc option which was leftover
577 + CF_LIB_SUFFIX - change suffix for AIX shared libraries to ".so".
578 + CF_MAKEFLAGS - workaround for GNU make 4.0 incompatibility with
580 + CF_XOPEN_SOURCE - add cases for Minix, UnixWare and improve the
581 workaround for Solaris.
582 + improve comparison in compare_cache() function, in case difference
583 between pointers does not fit in int's.
584 + updated de.po, es.po, hu.po, lv.po from
585 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
586 + update config.guess, config.sub
589 + cleanup of manpages prompted by Gislason's comments.
590 + several changes to manpages to improve presentation (patches by
591 Bjarni I. Gislason, Debian #739180, Debian #739181)
592 + use "\/" when transitioning from italic to normal font
593 + correct an instance of "e.g,."
594 + use "\e" rather than "\\" to present a literal "\"
595 + improve formatting of table header
596 + remove some excess space-characters
597 + change a reference 0-9 to use "through" as the connector
598 + use "\&" to separate "." from a space to make the space shorter
599 + change a list's TP macro parameters to make the hanging text align
600 better with the adjacent paragraph
601 + add comma in a few places before "and" in a list
602 + separate units from numbers with a nonfillable space
603 + replace "-" with en-dash in a few places
604 + corrected argument indices after "--args" and "--file" to rescan the
605 argument list after removing/substituting those options.
606 + fix loops for "--file" option to handle cases with zero or no tokens at
607 all substituted (Redhat #1066168).
609 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
612 + improve calculation for amount to scroll in programbox when an "Ok"
613 button might obscure part of the data (report by Florent Rougon).
614 + modify program to permit --separate-output to be used with buildlist
615 and treeview widgets (report by Florent Rougon).
616 + add list-height parameter to manpage description of --buildlist
617 (report by Florent Rougon).
618 + minor fixes to dialog.1 manpage; the reported problem was actually
619 fixed in 20120703 (Debian #726233, patch by Bjarni Ingi Gislason).
620 + add a "Hello World" example to dialog.3 manpage (prompted by
621 discussions with Dustin Oprea, Kevin Ingwersen).
622 + correct comparison in dlg_lookup_key() so that using "bindkey" with
623 a "*" wildcard parameter works as documented (report by Stewart
625 + updated configure macros, fixes for clang and mingw.
626 + update config.guess, config.sub
629 + fix a regression in gauge widget from 2013/09/28 changes;
630 dlg_reallocate_gauge() failed when no --title option was given
631 (report by Tritonas Insomnia).
634 + fix samples/inputbox6-utf8, which had depended unnecessarily on bash.
635 + improve memory caching for wide-character manipulation in gauge
636 widget (report by Devin Teske).
637 + add dlg_reallocate_gauge (discussion with Devin Teske).
638 + updated configure macros to use msys changes from ncurses.
639 + update config.guess, config.sub
642 + modify makefile rule to make the ".png" filenames created by groff
644 + add option --help-tags to allow scripts to get the item's tag field
645 consistently from help- and help-item button results rather than
646 getting the item's text for the latter (discussion with Florent
648 + correct manpage discussion of DIALOG_ITEM_HELP versus --item-help,
649 as well as --help-button return status (report by Florent Rougon).
650 + correct limit used for --hline option (report by Devin Teske,
652 + do not print empty "[]" if a --hline option was given with an empty
653 value (report by Devin Teske).
654 + miscellaneous configure script fixes/updates. In particular, add
655 option --with-shared which builds shared libraries without a libtool
657 + add FreeBSD port-files for test-builds.
658 + update lt.po, add fa.po from
659 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
660 + update config.guess, config.sub
663 + modify ifdef in arrows.c to work around packages which use the
664 wide-character ncursesw headers with the ncurses library (report
666 + correct workaround for xterm alternate-screen to work with/without
667 the fix made in ncurses that makes putp() always write to the
668 standard output (Debian #708829).
669 + improve limit-checks for checklist, in case the dialog is resized
670 (report by Ilya A Arkhipov).
671 + add --last-key option (adapted from patch by Jordi Pujol, Debian
675 + update zh_TW.po, add an.po from
676 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
678 2012/12/30 - release 1.2
679 + improve some older changelog entries to help with HTML'izing content.
680 + various fixes/improvements for scrollbar appearance.
681 + add mappings for some equivalent options provided by whiptail;
682 add configure option --disable-whiptail to allow suppressing these.
683 + add configure option --disable-Xdialog2 to allow suppressing the
684 newer features, i.e., for cdialog 1.2
685 + add --no-items option, for consistency.
686 + add --no-tags option, like Xdialog.
687 + add buildlist, rangebox and treeview dialogs, like Xdialog.
688 + remove obsolete workaround for ncurses 4.2 scrolling in checklist
690 + improve dialog_helpfile() by preventing it from showing extra buttons
691 (suggested by xDog Walker).
692 + correct logic in formbox's scroll_next() function (report by xDog
694 + fix a case with inputbox widget where preset input text is not shown
695 until moving the cursor within the text (report by xDog Walker).
696 + handle SIGCHLD in dialog_prgbox() to eliminate defunct processes
697 (report by xDog Walker).
698 + improve the way "hotkeys" are assigned to widget buttons by checking
699 if a given key has already been used in the row of buttons (Debian
701 + amend fix for --trace parsing from 2012/07/03, which sometimes
702 skipped a parameter (report by xDog Walker).
703 + drop copismall and install files from samples, which were essentially
705 + correct secondary border colors in samples/slackware.rc and
707 + update gl.po, add ia.po from
708 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
709 + fix various issues reported by coverity scan.
710 + miscellaneous configure script fixes/updates:
711 + require autoconf 2.52+patches
712 + support --datarootdir option
713 + check for clang compiler
714 + check for tinfo library when looking for ncurses
715 + add 3rd parameter to AC_DEFINE for autoheader
716 + remove unused macros from aclocal.m4
717 + update config.guess, config.sub
720 + modify samples/setup-tempfile to work with Tru64's shell.
721 + modify inputmenu sample scripts to make them more portable:
722 + use "id" rather than "$GROUPS", use sed to work with Solaris.
723 + use sed to split-up the rename results to work with HPUX.
724 + fix regression in msgbox (ArchLinux #30574)
727 + modify prgbox widget to work with --extra-button, etc.
728 + add case values to several widgets to allow for mouse-clicks with
729 "--extra-button" and "--help-button" additions.
730 + correct timebox widget's exit code for "--extra-button" when handing
732 + modify msgbox widget to honor "--extra-button".
733 + corrected processing of "--trace" option, which did not update the
734 index into command-line to point past its value.
735 + add a check in dialog program for valid characters used in option,
736 e.g., to generate an error if a script attempts to add option value
737 using "=" rather than with whitespace.
738 + add new command-line option --default-button and library function
739 dlg_default_button() to retrieve the value set by the option
740 to provide a way to set the default button directly rather than
741 by combining --nook, etc. (patch by Zoltan Kelemen).
742 + amend include of unctrl.h to apply only to the case where curses.h
743 is included, to avoid conflict of ncurses' unctrl.h with a system
744 implementation (report by Martin Roedlach)
745 + add limit-check to dlg_toupper() in non-wide curses mode to work
746 when non-character values such as arrow-key codes are passed to
747 it (patch by Zoltan Kelemen).
748 + override timeout value, e.g., as set via --timeout command-line
749 option in pause widget because that interferes with pause's behavior
750 (report by Jan Spitalnik).
751 + modify samples/inputmenu* to allow ":" in renamed text (report by
753 + modify double-quoting to make it more consistent, i.e., checklist
754 output is quoted only when needed. This fixes the case where
755 single-quotes were used whether or not needed, but also modifies
756 older checklist behavior for double-quoting which always added those
758 + correct exit-code used in inputmenu for "rename" button (Debian
759 #673041, forwarded from Ubuntu #333909, patch by Lebedev Vadim).
760 + update el.po and hr.po from
761 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
762 + use checkbashisms to clean up sample scripts.
765 + modify menubox.c to use the same improvement as in checklist.c
766 + improve auto width computation for checklist widget by using
767 dlg_calc_list_width as in the non-auto case (Edho Arief).
768 + eliminate some bashisms in the sample scripts (Pedro Giffuni).
769 + makefile fixes from FreeBSD ports (Li-Wen Hsu):
770 + make --with-package option of configure script work.
771 + get LIBTOOL_VERSION from configure script, needed by
772 ${LIBTOOL_VERSION} in LIBTOOL_CREATE (LIB_CREATE in configure and
774 + update cs.po and sr.po from
775 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
776 + updated configure script macros, improving CF_XOPEN_SOURCE among
780 + fix --analyze warnings for clang versions 2.8, 2.9.
781 + add configure check for lint program.
782 + add check in dlg_getc() in case its window is freed as a side effect
783 of removing callbacks.
784 + fix logic in freeing subwindows (report by xDog Walker).
785 + fix a regression in logic distinguishing between inputmenu and menu
786 widgets (report by xDog Walker).
787 + minor fixes to library manpage.
790 + modify header-sh.in to work around limit on sed script length on
792 + add a special case of parameter parsing for "--trace" to the
793 initialization done before calling init_dialog(), to allow users to
794 capture the initial state of the parameter list before any options
795 are processed and removed. This is only done if "--trace" is the
796 first option, otherwise it is handled in the common options as before
797 (report by xDog Walker).
798 + modify samples/testdata-8bit, discarding $1 from the parameter list
799 if it was used, so that the source'ing scripts can consistently use
800 "$@" to insert parameters before the widget, e.g., as an alternative
801 to using $DIALOGOPTS (report by xDog Walker).
802 + modify treatment of function pointers in menubox.c, make
803 dlg_renamed_menutext() and dlg_dummy_menutext() visible to library
804 users (request by xDog Walker).
805 + add dlg_count_real_columns(), use to modify centering for "--hline"
806 text to account for "\Z"s (report by xDog Walker).
807 + improve check in dlg_draw_arrows2() for conflict between the window
808 title and up-arrow marker to take into account that the given window
809 may not be the top-level window of the widget.
810 + change width of page up/down mouse areas in fselect panes to use the
811 full width of the panes rather than only the portion from the left
812 margin to the up/down arrow.
813 + add/use dlg_draw_box2() and dlg_draw_bottom_box2() to use the
815 + modify rc-file read/write to accept/generate color values that refer
816 to previously-processed items in the color table. This reduces the
817 number of distinct colors that must be specified to set up a color
819 + add color table entries for secondary borders, i.e., the ones that
820 are normally drawn with the dialog's text-colors (Debian #641168).
821 + modify fselect.c to scan the current directory if the input field
822 happens to be empty (Debian #640905).
823 + repeated the discussion of environment variables that can override
824 the exit-status values in the manpage's return-codes section
826 + add an example to the manpage showing how to override the form
827 widget's keys used for field/button traversal (Debian #642108).
828 + modify call to dlg_register_window() in formbox.c so that the editing
829 bindings are attached to the form sub-window rather than the
830 top-level dialog window. Also change the name by which the editing
831 bindings are bound for editbox.c, fselect.c and inputbox.c, so that
832 the editing and navigation bindings can be different.
833 + correct logic in dlg_lookup_key() so that it matches the widget name
834 before using a binding from .dialogrc, allowing the inner/outer
835 windows of form and other editing widgets to have different bindings.
836 + modify dlg_register_window() to call dlg_dump_window_keys() after
837 its updates, via the --trace output, to supplement the manpage
838 description of key bindings (Debian #642108).
839 + add DLGK_FORM_PREV and DLGK_FORM_NEXT key-bindings to form.c, to
840 allow binding a single key to traverse both form-fields and buttons
842 + modify dlg_parse_rc() to check for error return from
844 + add function dlg_dump_window_keys(), to help with debugging widgets.
845 + add CR, LF, TAB, FF and ESC to table of curses names to help make
846 key bindings more readable.
847 + update table of dialog key-names so that helpfile and trace are
849 + correct dlg_dump_keys(), which was showing only the first item in
850 the matched binding table.
851 + save/restore window current position in dlg_update_mixedgauge().
852 + pass return-code from pause_for_ok() from dlg_progressbox() when
853 pauseopt is set, rather than only DLG_OK.
854 + call setlocale() in init_dialog() rather than relying on on-demand
855 use within inputstr.c, since there are paths in textbox widget which
856 do not exercise the latter (report by xDog Walker).
857 + fix some places where checks for "\Z" were done without also checking
858 dialog_vars.colors (report by Moray Henderson).
859 + correct logic for DIALOGOPTS parsing so that the parse happens only
860 once unless memory leak checking is enabled (report by xDog Walker).
861 + remove an incorrect free() call in dlg_free_gauge() (report by xDog
863 + modify dlg_trace_win() to log wide-characters (report by xDog Walker).
864 + make traces shorter by skipping repeated ERR's, but showing the
865 number skipped (report by xDog Walker).
866 + improve description in manpage to distinguish program box and
867 progress box from tailboxes (adapted from email by xDog Walker).
868 + modify dlg_trace_win() so that it looks for the topmost window in a
869 dialog. Because subwindows share space with the top window, tracing
870 the latter shows the whole widget (report by xDog Walker).
871 + expand tracing so that each window is traced before soliciting input,
872 making the ^T feature to print a window on demand partly redundant
873 (suggested by xDog Walker).
874 + cosmetic change in dialog.h to avoid "*/*" strings from comments next
875 to "*" (report by xDog Walker).
876 + ensure result from dlg_align_columns() has trailing null on each
877 string. Analysis was hindered by libc6's continuance of libc5's
878 early-1990s misfeature of clearing the result from malloc, noting
879 that libc6's documentation incorrectly claims that it does not do
880 this (report by xDog Walker).
883 + modify util.c to work better with old versions of ncurses:
884 + suppress use of wchgat() before fix in 20060715 which is needed
885 for simple shadow manipulation used here in 2011/06/30 (report
887 + add a null-pointer check in dlg_print_scrolled()
888 + fix a regression in dlg_getc() introduced by changes to intercept
889 F1 for help-popup (report by xDog Walker).
892 + correct license statement for prgbox.c (Debian #632198).
893 + correct layout when "--colors" is used, by discounting characters in
894 the escape sequences from the column counts (report by xDog Walker).
895 + modify dlg_checklist() so that only one item in the list can
896 initially be selected (report by xDog Walker).
897 + add/use macro dlg_enter_buttoncode() to improve implementation of
898 "--nook" option (report by xDog Walker).
899 + add option "--no-nl-expand" to suppress the conversion of "\n"
900 strings into newlines (request by xDog Walker).
901 + modify LIB_CREATE symbol in makefile.in to include the library
902 dependencies such as ncurses. This is needed when dynamically
903 loading the library (report/analysis by xDog Walker).
904 + modify dlg_exit_label() to suppress the Cancel button, for
906 + modify dlg_exit_label() to honor the --nook option, except when there
907 is no other button, e.g., the help-button.
908 + modify dlg_exit_buttoncode() so that it returns the proper code for
909 help-button (report by xDog Walker).
910 + correct loop limit when processing "--column-separator" (report by
912 + modify handling of "--version" and "--help" to ensure that they are
913 processed, and exit before widgets. Separate "--print-version"
914 from "--version", allowing its output to be interspersed with
915 widget output (report by xDog Walker).
916 + correct a few places where "--version" or "--help" options went
917 always to stdout rather than allowing redirection with the "--stderr"
918 option (report by xDog Walker).
919 + improve repainting after erasing a widget and its shadow.
920 + add "--hline" and "--hfile" options for compatibility with FreeBSD
921 dialog (request by Devin Teske).
922 + add dialog version message when opening a trace file (request by
924 + show filename of rc-file in traces.
925 + add piped-in data for gauge widget to traces.
926 + add entrypoints to gauge widget, for allocating, updating and freeing
927 the widget (adapted from patch by Stephen Hurd).
928 + fix a reference to freed memory in the gauge widget.
929 + fix --no-mouse option by actually closing the mouse (report by
932 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
933 + limit Solaris xpg4 portability fix for redefinition of ERR to cover
934 the specific value found in <sys/regset.h>, in case an application
935 includes dialog.h after curses.h (FreeBSD #156601, report by Jaakko
936 Heinonen, Stephen Hurd).
937 + updated configure macros:
938 + CF_CURSES_CPPFLAGS,
939 + CF_CURSES_LIBS, make checks for special libraries on hpux10 and
941 + CF_CURSES_FUNCS, workaround for bug in gcc 4.2.1 (FreeBSD 8.1)
942 which caused part of test program to be omitted, i.e., when it saw
943 two return-statements in a row it omitted the _first_ one. Also
944 add expression to pointer check to help FreeBSD's linker decide it
945 should be validated. Just an assignment was not enough. Also, add
947 + CF_CURSES_HEADER, change order for curses.h / ncurses.h pairs to
948 put ncurses.h first, which will tend to provide the same #define's
949 as in CF_NCURSES_HEADER (report by Dennis Preiser).
950 + CF_CURSES_TERM_H, modify to avoid spurious check for
951 <curses.hterm.h> if there is no ncurses version. Look for
952 ncurses's term.h anyway, to work around breakage by packagers who
953 separate ncurses' header files.
954 + CF_DISABLE_RPATH_HACK, fix garbled message
955 + CF_LD_RPATH_OPT, add mirbsd
956 + CF_MAKEFLAGS, filter out GNU make's entering/leaving messages.
957 This only appeared when using the macro in a dpkg script, though it
958 should have in other cases.
959 + CF_RPATH_HACK, add a check for libraries not found, e.g., from
960 suppressed functionality of gcc in linking from /usr/local/lib, and
961 add a -L option to help work around this.
962 + CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, workaround for cygwin to get ncurses' configure
963 script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED (cygwin's features.h
964 doesn't do anything, so it needs a crutch).
965 + update config.guess, config.sub
968 + add --prgbox and --programbox (adapted from patch by David Boyd).
970 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
971 + fix timeouts from 2011/01/18, which were being interpreted as
972 milliseconds rather than seconds (report by Luis Moreira).
975 + fix inconsistency in return-codes for textbox when help-button is
976 used by making dlg_exit_buttoncode() a wrapper for
978 + modify pause widget to use dlg_ok_buttoncode(), so help-button works.
979 + correct two infobox sample scripts, which did not pass extra
980 command-line parameters due to quoting problems.
981 + add a limit-check to the timebox widget (patch by Garrett Cooper).
982 + modify --trace option to also trace the command-line parameters.
983 + account for combining characters when wrapping text (Debian #570634).
984 + correct handling of SIGWINCH in gauge widget (Debian #305705).
985 + add gauge_color, to make guage's progress-bar distinct from
986 title_color (request by Dominic Derdau).
988 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
989 as well as resync line-numbers in the other po-files.
990 + modify configure script and dialog program to build with NetBSD's
991 wide-character curses functions, including workarounds for its
992 incorrect WACS_xxx definitions. Some of the UTF-8 examples work.
993 + add back-tab for traversal of tailboxbg widgets, for symmetry with
995 + reduce flicker in tailboxbg by checking if the input file size has
997 + modify internals of callbacks to avoid blocking reads of their
998 associated files by keyboard input.
999 + add command-line option --no-mouse, to suppress use of mouse.
1000 + add configure option --enable-header-subdir to allow the header files
1001 to be installed into a subdirectory named for the package.
1002 + modify dlg_restore_vars() to retain the updated values of
1003 input_result and input_length, eliminating the need for a caller to
1004 provide their own user buffer (prompted by report by Thiago Bimbatti
1006 + add a null-pointer check in show_result() for
1007 dialog_vars.input_result, and ensure it is set to null after freeing
1008 (prompted by report by Thiago Bimbatti Felicio).
1009 + change order of -I options in CPPFLAGS (report by Michel Feldheim)
1010 + modify pause-widget so that it no longer exits when an unrecognized
1011 key is pressed (patch by Creidieki M Crouch).
1012 + add --with-package option to configure script to allow renaming
1013 of the dialog program and library, to support the package scripts.
1014 + add Debian and RPM package scripts for test-builds.
1015 + several improvements to configure script:
1016 + quote params of ifelse()
1017 + change obsolete ${name-value} to standard ${name:-value}
1018 + use new macros CF_ADD_LIB/CF_ADD_LIBS to enforce consistency.
1019 + AM_GNU_GETTEXT, drop $MKINSTALLDIRS, use "mkdir -p" consistently.
1020 + CF_ADD_SUBDIR_PATH, workaround - if $prefix was not mkdir'd yet, no
1021 directories were added.
1022 + CF_BUNDLED_INTL, add --with-textdomain option, to use with lynx-dev
1024 + CF_FIND_LINKAGE, simplify save/restore of $LIBS
1025 + CF_GCC_WARNINGS, fix for Mac OS X (compiler makes conftest.dSYM
1027 + CF_HEADER_PATH, don't search for variations of everything in the
1028 current include-path
1029 + CF_WITH_CURSES_DIR, move the calls to CF_ADD_INCDIR and
1030 CF_ADD_LIBDIR for the curses-directory here, from
1031 CF_NCURSES_CPPFLAGS and CF_NCURSES_LDFLAGS, so it will work even
1032 with the default checking, e.g., no --with-ncurses, etc.
1033 + update config.guess, config.sub
1036 + several improvements to configure script:
1037 + modify CF_CURSES_TERM_H to handle cases such as cygwin where
1038 packager has installed curses.h and term.h in different
1039 directories, e.g., to wedge in a termcap library.
1040 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, adding special case for OpenSolaris
1041 + modify CF_MAKE_TAGS to add check for exctags and exetags, prefer to
1042 ctags and etags to work around pkgsrc (NetBSD) renaming.
1043 + correct CF_FIND_LINKAGE, setting cache variable for library_file in
1044 the special case where no directory search is made.
1045 + improve CF_GCC_VERSION, suppress stderr for c89 alias of gcc.
1046 + improve CF_GCC_WARNINGS, moving -W and -Wall into the list to
1047 check, since c89 alias for gcc complains about these options.
1048 + modify CF_HEADER_PATH, to not search for variations of everything
1049 in the current include-path
1050 + use "mkdir -p", remove mkdirs.sh
1051 + use CF_CURSES_HEADER to fill in possible subdirectory used for
1052 ncurses header filename.
1053 + modify CF_XOPEN_CURSES to work around current ncurse header loss of
1054 predefinition of _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
1055 + add "--disable-rpath-hack" option, along with scripting to add
1056 rpath option to libraries found in unusual places.
1057 + modify pause widget to autosize like gauge, and to omit the area for
1058 buttons when none are displayed.
1059 + fix an infinite loop in dlg_button_layout() if there are no buttons
1060 to display (Debian #579390).
1061 + add makefile rules for generating html, etc., documentation from
1063 > patches by Samuel Martín Moro
1064 + reset errors in tailbox before reading new character.
1065 + modify dlg_draw_scrollbar(), omitting hiding percentages in boxes
1066 when no arrows or scrollbar are needed.
1067 + correct value of row for scrollbars in formbox.
1069 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
1072 + split up binding tables in inputbox and similar widgets to avoid
1073 conflict between cursor-key use for input-string versus navigation
1074 (report by slakmagik).
1075 + if strftime() is available, support --time-format option for timebox
1077 + if strftime() is available, support --date-format option for calendar
1078 widget (request by Walter Harms).
1079 + build-fixes for linking to intl library in /usr/local
1080 + add --scrollbar option, use in most widgets to show a scrollbar on
1081 the right margin of the data. That is cosmetic, does not respond to
1083 + reuse functions from msgbox to allow prompt for yesno box to be
1084 scrolled in a too-small window.
1085 + correct mapping of button-codes with --nook option (report by Lebedev
1087 + cleanup sample scripts using new utility scripts setup-* and report-*,
1088 and allow command-line parameters to be added, for ad hoc testing.
1089 + correct change to tailbox widget from 2009/02/22 using
1090 dlg_button_layout(), which broke that widget.
1091 + document some of the portability caveats.
1092 + modify gauge widget to service callbacks (prompted by patch and
1093 comments by Frank Sorenson).
1094 + modify editbox to allow its input buffer to be larger than MAX_LEN
1095 unless bounded by the --max-input option, and add limit-checks for
1096 the buffer (report by slakmagik).
1097 + improve manpage description of --checklist (report by Isaac Good).
1098 + several improvements to configure script macros: CF_ADD_CFLAGS
1099 CF_CURSES_FUNCS CF_DISABLE_ECHO CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES CF_MATH_LIB
1100 CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE CF_REMOVE_DEFINE CF_WITH_LIBTOOL CF_XOPEN_SOURCE
1101 + add is.po, lv.po, sw.po from
1102 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
1103 + update de.po, id.po, pl.po, pt_BR.po, vi.po from
1104 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
1107 + do not display top-arrows for scrolling if they would overwrite the
1108 title (report by slakmagik)
1109 + consistently use dlg_button_layout() when autosizing widgets (report
1111 + add "-" and "+" bindings to timebox widget.
1112 + add "-" and "+" bindings to calendar widget (OpenSolaris #6739031).
1113 + review/fix other widgets to ensure that they exit on error, e.g.,
1115 + modify check in dlg_getc() to treat closure of either stdin or stdout
1116 as an error, rather than both. This is more stringent than the check
1117 added in 2007/07/04.
1118 + modify dlg_result_key() to map curses ERR to dialog's error exit
1119 (adapted from patch by Domagoj Pensa).
1120 + updated several configure script macros:
1121 + consistently append, rather then prepend, to $CFLAGS
1122 + add cases for AIX 6, mint, and dragonfly to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE
1123 + use $PATH_SEPARATOR rather than $PATHSEP
1124 + improve CF_FIND_LINKAGE, use in checks for more libraries, e.g.,
1125 libutf8 and libiconv.
1126 + update da.po, ru.po from
1127 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
1128 + update config.guess, config.sub
1131 + amend changes to quoting; by default, the checklist widget quotes its
1132 output except when --separate-output is used (Debian #495600).
1134 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
1137 + add pointer-check when closing piped input (cf: 2007/03/25)
1138 + use here-documents rather than echo, when passing backslashes in
1139 strings, to accommodate the Debian shell "dash" (Debian #489563).
1140 + recode several ".po" files to UTF-8 for consistency.
1141 + change --separator to be an alias for --output-separator, for
1142 compatibility with Xdialog.
1143 + add --output-separator option to allow scripts to change the output
1144 separator from a newline (for --separate-output) or a space. This
1145 applies to other widgets such as forms and editboxes which normally
1147 + add --column-separator option, to tell where column-aligned data for
1148 radio/checkboxes or menus should be split into columns (request by
1150 + add id.po, ku.po, lt.po, nb.po and update ca.po, fr.po, gl.po, ja.po,
1152 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
1153 + add "--quoted" option, to quote values returned by formbox, etc.
1154 + change names of EX/ES macros in dialog.1 to work around name-
1155 pollution caused by changes in Debian #470729.
1158 + modify dlg_mouse_wgetch() to loop only on errors that it detects,
1159 rather than on errors forwarded from dlg_getc(), in case those are
1160 due to a disconnected terminal (report by Anatoli Sakhnik).
1161 + allow "default" color in dialogrc file (request by Dashing).
1162 + fix an indexing error in formbox (Debian #469190, report by Dmitry
1163 Gomerman, patch by Vladimir Mezentsev).
1164 + add bindings for CTL/N, CTL/P to checklist, fselect and menubox
1165 widgets (prompted by discussion with John Gatewood Ham).
1166 + add be@latin.po, th.po and update zh_TW.po from
1167 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
1168 > patches by Peter Åstrand:
1169 + modify dlg_auto_sizefile() to ensure the computed height and width
1170 do not extend beyond the screen size.
1171 + use unctrl() to make inputstr.c work with Solaris curses.
1172 > patches by Yura Kalinichenko:
1173 + extend pause widget to use ok/cancel buttons (the former giving the
1174 same result as a timeout), rather than an exit-button.
1175 + fix initialization parameter of inputbox for multibyte characters.
1178 + improve layout of checklist.c, menubox.c, ensuring that the list fits
1179 within the available space (report by Gordon Schumacher).
1180 + undo removal of redundant chunk from checklist.c in 2007/02/27,
1181 since some scripts depend on this (Debian #443077).
1183 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
1186 + correct cursor position in editbox after deleting past left margin
1187 (report by Joe McDonagh).
1188 + add "--no-ok" option (patch by Klaus Knopper).
1189 + modify "--file" option to allow it to read from sources other than
1190 a regular file (patch by Pieter van Beek).
1191 + improved hi.po (Hindi) (from Klaus Knopper).
1192 + fix masking of attributes in dlg_draw_shadow() which lost
1193 line-drawing bit (report by David Everly).
1194 + fix editbox widget to handle zero-length files (report by Joe
1196 + update "po" files eu.po ga.po it.po ms.po sv.po vi.po wa.po zh_CN.po
1198 http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
1201 + revise the resizable shadows so textbox's search dialog has text
1202 visible in the shadow again.
1203 + improve the prefixing of autoconf-related symbols in the installed
1204 header files, taking into account symbols which are not mentioned in
1206 + add a check when ERR returned from wgetch() to ensure that the
1207 input/output streams are still valid. If that happens, force
1208 ESC to be returned, quitting dialog (report by Reiner Huober).
1209 + add extern "C" declarations to dlg_keys.h so the corresponding
1210 function declarations are exported to C++ as C symbols.
1211 + update config.guess, config.sub
1214 + fix a memory leak in editbox.c
1215 + revise change from 2007/02/27 which moved the logic for trimming
1216 option text out of the loop because that moved it before
1217 initialization of the "--trim" option. Put it back in the loop, but
1218 limit the tokens which are trimmed to cover only those for the
1219 current widget. Also ensure that all tokens for a widget are
1220 trimmed, rather than only the first, which is usually text (report by
1222 + add _FILE_OFFSET_BITS definition in CF_LARGEFILE configure macro.
1225 + revise changes needed to make textbox's searchbox handle ncurses
1226 resizing events, e.g., by handling the ERR in that code rather than
1227 in dlg_getc() (Debian #423732).
1230 + supply a repaint_text() call in tailbox.c which was bypassed because
1231 dlg_getc() now retries on ERR (Debian #423732, cf: 2007/02/27).
1232 + modify dlg_getc() to fix regression in 2007/02/27 for use of
1233 timeouts, broken by fixes to allow resizing of textbox (patch by
1234 Arnaud Fontaine, Debian #418905).
1235 + modify dlg_getc() to fix regression in use of TAB for traversal of
1236 tailboxbg widgets due to changes for user-definable key bindings
1237 (Debian #418917, cf: 2005/12/07).
1240 + add case in dlg_getc() to handle tab for traversing between widgets
1241 as in the samples/tailboxbg1 script. Normally the key binding
1242 overrides, except for the special case where multiple widgets are
1244 + add configure --with-libtool-opts, which passes its value to the
1245 library creation and linkage passes, e.g.,
1246 --with-libtool-opts=-static
1247 to force the result to be static libraries (prompted by a related
1248 request by Santiago Vila).
1249 > several fixes based on Coverity scan:
1250 + fix memory leak in timebox, calendar widgets if the widget cannot
1252 + fix memory leak in dlg_key.c if a user binding's storage cannot
1254 + fix improperly delinked entry in dlg_del_window().
1257 + improve mkdirs.sh to ignore error from mkdir if the target directory
1258 happens to already exist (suggested by Harald van Dijk).
1259 + amend documentation for --gauge to reflect longstanding quirk which
1260 allows it to read percentage from the first line after an "XXX"
1262 + fix makefile dependency so "configure && make install-lib" works.
1263 + fix resizing of msgbox; the message was not repainted (Debian
1264 #415022, patch by Brian Rolfe).
1265 + fix typo in makefile LIB_OBJECT symbol from 2007/02/27 changes.
1266 + improve CF_MBSTATE_T by including stdio.h, needed on Tru64 to make
1267 the test-compile work.
1268 + change makefile to install dialog.3 as part of install-lib rather
1269 than install-man (report by Thomas Klausner).
1270 + use $(INSTALL_SCRIPT) for installing dialog-config (report by
1273 2007/02/27 - release 1.1
1274 + mark as "dialog 1.1"
1275 + add dialog-config script, which provides applications with compile-
1276 and link-information for using the dialog library.
1277 + move calls to dlg_trim_string() out of loop in dialog.c, so each
1278 string is trimmed once (report by Ivanov Makcim).
1279 + modify textbox.c to allow resizing while the search box is presented.
1280 This relies on bug-fix in ncurses 5.6 20070224.
1281 + use dgettext() rather than gettext() to allow libdialog to use the
1282 messages installed for dialog (patch by Vajna Miklos).
1283 + modify inputbox to position the cursor initially at the end of any
1284 initial-text (request by Klaus Knopper).
1285 + add configure --with-valgrind for testing.
1286 + add --trace option, for debugging.
1287 + add --ascii-lines and --no-lines options to control the way the
1288 line-drawing characters are rendered (request by Klaus Knopper).
1289 + add --keep-tite option, to override suppression of smcup/rmcup
1290 (termcap ti/te) strings which would switch to xterm's alternate
1291 screen (Debian #380665).
1292 + modify fselect/dselect to use space-character as a completion
1293 operator like tab in shells (patch by Yoram Bar Haim).
1294 + remove a redundant chunk from checklist.c which reported status a
1295 second time if the help-button was pressed but no item-help option
1296 was in effect (Andre C Barros).
1297 + fix return-status from "dialog --pause" (Debian #409254).
1298 + add --mixedform and --mixedgauge dialogs based on patch from
1300 + add some notes on compatibility to the manpage.
1301 + add editbox dialog (compatible with Xdialog, Debian #368478).
1302 + add dselect dialog (compatible with Xdialog).
1303 + remove an incorrect initialization of .text_flen from 2005/12/07
1304 changes, which made all fields in a form editable (Debian #404045).
1305 + report error and exit if a filename given for the --file option
1306 cannot be opened (report by "Dog Walker").
1307 + make --program-prefix, etc., work in configure script, e.g., to make
1308 program install as "cdialog". This does not alter the library name.
1309 + add install-bin, install-man (and uninstall) rules to makefile.
1310 + updates for configure script macros (originally vile, lynx, xterm):
1311 AM_PATH_PROG_WITH_TEST, AM_WITH_NLS, CF_CURSES_CPPFLAGS,
1312 CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_INCLUDE_DIRS, CF_LARGEFILE, CF_MAKEFLAGS,
1313 CF_PATH_SYNTAX, CF_SUBDIR_PATH, CF_SUBST, CF_WITH_DBMALLOC,
1314 CF_WITH_DMALLOC, CF_WITH_LIBTOOL and CF_XOPEN_SOURCE.
1315 + update config.guess, config.sub
1316 > adapted fixes from SuSE package (Werner Fink):
1317 + add some limit-checks in dlg_draw_shadow().
1318 + make shadows resizable, using new dlg_move_window() in msgbox.c
1320 + add dialog_state.input, use this in end_dialog() to decide whether
1321 to close pipe inputs and call _exit(), or simply call exit().
1322 + modify dlg_ctl_size() to check if the reason for failure is because
1323 shadows were used; retry in that case without shadows.
1324 + add signal catcher for SIGSEGV.
1327 + fix logic in split-out dlg_menu() to separate inputmenu and menu
1328 handling (report by Auke Kok).
1331 + fix fselect.c to compile properly with Intel compiler and largefile
1333 + improve configure script checks for curses headers to work around
1334 breakage in some packages, e.g., cygwin.
1335 + amend correction to menubox, fixes normal menus (Debian #349969).
1338 + completed dialog.3 manpage
1339 + modify configure script option --with-gauge to cover all flavors of
1340 the gauge (gauge, pause, progressbox).
1341 + add progressbox widget, a hybrid of gauge and tailbox (Reznic Valery).
1342 + fix a comparison in checklist.c to avoid unneeded arrows when the
1343 list happens to fit in the window (patch by Peter Postma).
1344 + correct wrapping computation in print_line() from 2005/11/07 changes
1345 (report by Barry Kauler).
1346 + update sv.po (comments only).
1347 http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/maint/dialog/
1348 + correct logic that passes the callback for menubox to do inputmenu
1349 operations from 2005/12/7 changes (report by Reznic Valery).
1352 + add a null-pointer check in dlg_register_buttons(), needed for the
1353 tailboxbg (Debian #345524).
1354 + fix a few memory leaks reported by valgrind.
1357 + correct return-values of new functions dlg_default_listitem() and
1358 dlg_default_formitem() (Debian #344002).
1359 + add Swedish translation (Debian #343303, by Daniel Nylander)
1360 + begin function-summaries in dialog.3
1361 + update config.guess, config.sub
1364 + change license to LGPL.
1365 + change naming convention in dlg_colors.h to make it easier to read,
1366 and incidentally remove the last chunk of code preventing relicense.
1367 + add --passwordform (request by Reznic Valery).
1368 + modify pause.c, msgbox.c to work with --help-button.
1369 + modify formbox.c, inputbox.c, textbox.c, yesno.c to work with extra
1370 button (adapted from Reznic Valery patch).
1371 + modify dlg_exit_label(), dlg_yes_labels() and dlg_ok_label() to allow
1372 help-button (prompted by Reznic Valery patch).
1373 + add zh_CN.po file from
1374 http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/maint/dialog/
1375 + provide alternate interfaces for dialog_checklist(), dialog_menu()
1376 and dialog_form(): dlg_checklist(), dlg_menu() and dlg_form()
1377 (discussion with Michael Gebetsroither).
1378 + add/use dlg_result_key() to allow binding function keys to the
1380 + implement user-definable key bindings in the rc-file.
1381 + modify inline cases for KEY_xxx values to use binding tables in new
1383 + add several DIALOG_STATE items to the rc file: aspect,
1384 separate_widget, tab_len and visit_links
1385 + add a tab-adjustment to dlg_print_text() to improve solution from
1386 2005/10/30, e.g., in the samples/form* scripts.
1387 + fix an off-by-one which made mouse-selection not work for menu items
1388 past the first page (GenToo #112024, patch by Harald van Dijk).
1391 + extend dlg_add_result() to allow caller to pass a null pointer
1392 for dialog_vars.input_result (Debian #336986).
1393 + correct length used for text portion of radio/checkboxes (report by
1395 + modify msgbox, textbox and center_label() to work properly for
1396 LANG=bg_BG.utf8 examples by Valentin Stoykov.
1397 + modify use of freopen() to work with opaque FILE type on DragonFly
1398 (report by Jeremy C Reed).
1399 + modify print_line() to compute columns, use that for the call to
1400 dlg_print_line(). Fix a few places where strlen() was used instead
1401 of dlg_count_columns() (reports by Valentin Stoykov).
1404 + reviewed changes since beginning development in 1999, decided that
1405 there are no appreciable portions of original code remaining.
1406 Marked sources to correspond.
1407 + improve cache performance for inputstr.c using tsearch() rather than
1408 a linked-list search (Debian #294853).
1409 + remove a special case for darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
1410 + add ms.po file from
1411 http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/maint/dialog/
1412 + remove an assignment that caused the cursor to appear initially on a
1413 form field rather than button (Debian #333506).
1414 + modify buttons.c to count columns rather than bytes, fixing case
1415 where buttons were laid out incorrectly (report by Valentin Stoykov).
1416 + change dlg_print_text() to count columns rather than bytes, fixing
1417 case where fewer columns were displayed in menu than expected
1418 (report by Valentin Stoykov).
1421 + improve fix for dlg_does_output(), eliminating redundant leading
1423 + fill background color for item-help text (report by Peter Postma).
1424 + correct interaction between --separate-output and --output-separator
1425 broken in 2005/09/11 fix for Debian #326918 (Debian #331440).
1426 + update config.guess, config.sub
1429 + undo doubled adjustment for left/right margins when wrapping text
1430 for msgbox, gauge and pause (report by Xyba).
1431 + correct position of scrolled text in formbox broken by 2004/12/19
1432 changes (report by Konrad Jelen).
1433 + call dlg_does_output() from dlg_add_result(), ensuring that
1434 separators are used when combining widgets such as formbox (report by
1436 + fix marker in textbox.c to make it disappear at the top of the file
1437 (report by Patrick J. Volkerding).
1438 + fix marker shown in arrows.c for checklists, etc., which was "(+)"
1439 where it should have been "(-)" (report/patch by Patrick J.
1441 + fix --input-fd (changes in glibc since 2003 made dialog hang on exit
1442 due to the way dialog updated stdin).
1443 + restore default value (a tab) for --separator or --separate-widget
1444 lost in 2003/11/26 changes (Debian #326918).
1445 + make several widgets handle SIGWINCH (calendar, checklist, formbox,
1446 fselect, inputbox, menubox, pause, tailbox, textbox, timebox). Only
1447 msgbox and yesno had been done before. Note that some still have
1448 fixed geometry requirements, so they cannot be shrunk below a given
1449 threshold. Also, these changes do not address traversal, e.g., for
1451 + make gauge widget handle SIGWINCH with ncurses (Debian #305705).
1452 + add configure option to control whether largefile support is
1453 compiled-in (Debian #298882).
1454 + update eu.po (Debian #312622, patch by Piarres Egana).
1455 + add/update po files from
1456 http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/maint/dialog/
1457 fi.po, rw.po, sr.po, tr.po, zh_TW.po
1458 + fixes for configure script:
1459 + improve script for determining gcc version
1460 + improve checks for Intel compiler and related warning options
1461 + improve checks for defining _XOPEN_SOURCE (or alternatives) and
1463 + update config.guess, config.sub
1466 + add/update po files from
1467 http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/maint/dialog/
1469 + revert last change for da.po; it was from an older version (report by
1470 Morten Brix Pedersen).
1473 + modify makefile.in so --disable-echo applies to libtool builds.
1474 + corrected malloc size used for editable fields in formbox widget to
1475 match the function which updates the corresponding buffer.
1476 + modify formbox widget's use of flen to allow negative values to be
1477 used to limit the length of the displayed field.
1478 + improve description in manpage of output from formbox widget
1480 + modify formbox widget to allow fields with flen==0 to display
1482 + improved configure macros CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE and CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, to
1483 avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
1484 + fix a typo in inputmenu-stdout found via "sh -n" (report by Steve
1486 + add/update po files from
1487 http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/maint/dialog/
1488 ca.po, da.po, hu.po, nl.po, rm.po, ro.po, vi.po
1491 + add --args option to help with debugging scripts.
1492 + adapted some new po files from Debian package for whiptail: ar.po,
1493 bg.po, gl.po, hi.po, hr.po, mg.po, mk.po, ro.po, sq.po and zh_TW.po
1494 + update da.po (Morten Brix Pedersen).
1495 + add configure check for Intel 8.0 compiler, to set appropriate
1497 + update config.guess, config.sub
1500 + correct a typo in 2004/12/19 changes which caused width of multibyte
1501 characters to be incorrectly computed in some locales.
1502 + modify --version and --help options to write consistently to the
1503 standard output (report by Santiago Vila).
1504 + modify tailboxbg by resetting tty modes at the point where it forks a
1505 process to update the screen, rather than waiting until that process
1506 exits. This improves user feedback by making it apparent that dialog
1507 is no longer processing input after that point (Redhat #142538).
1508 + minor updates to some .po files using Babel Fish, comparing with lynx.
1509 + update es.po (Santiago Vila).
1510 + work around bug in NetBSD 1.6 curses which seems to be confused by
1511 reusing color pairs with different video attributes. The problem
1512 does not appear in NetBSD 2.0 curses (but its headers do not provide
1513 version info, so color-caching is not available for that
1515 + modify pause and gauge widgets to ensure that reverse-video progress
1516 bar is visible when the background is reversed, e.g., using the
1517 default non-color attributes.
1518 + use chtype rather than attr_t, to build with old Solaris curses,
1519 used in save/restore operation from 2004/09/20.
1522 + add pause-widget (patch by Yura Kalinichenko).
1523 + modify exit-code returned on selecting the "Help"-button when the
1524 --item-help option is given. Previously this returned the same code
1525 as "OK", since it combines output for "OK" with the help status. It
1526 now returns the help-code, but this can be overridden by setting the
1527 environment variable $DIALOG_ITEM_HELP (reports by Erika Pacholleck
1528 and Sebastian Muesch).
1529 + modify formbox widget so input-length is not limited to field-length
1530 (report by David Liebermann).
1531 + localize the label on the search box for textbox widget (report by
1533 + correct usage message detail for fselect, which listed an extra
1534 parameter (Debian #284008).
1535 + add include for <sys/select.h> in ui_getc.c to build with QNX 4.25
1536 using Watcom 10.6 (patch by Len Meakin).
1537 + modify behavior when no locale (or POSIX locale) is set to allow
1538 legacy interpretation of Latin-1 character set (Debian #284795).
1541 + correct computation of column width for menubox/checkbox tags, for
1542 multicolumn characters, e.g., the menubox-utf8 example.
1543 + correct calls to wbkgdset(), which set the background attribute but
1544 not the corresponding character (ncurses uses blank if none is given).
1545 + improve configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE and _POSIX_C_SOURCE.
1546 + improved limit-computation in show_message() to allow for scrolling
1548 + adjust scrolling logic in msgbox to account for the one-line offset
1549 used by the logic which wraps text in a box, thus avoiding leaving
1550 an extra blank line (report by Maxim Sobolev).
1553 + add samples/whiptail.rc
1554 + add samples/dialog.py (noting that a later version of this exists
1555 as pythondialog, but this is relatively self-contained). Modified
1556 the script to accept the $DIALOG environment variable like the other
1557 sample scripts, to specify the path of the program to use.
1558 + modify the install rule for header-files so the autoconf names in
1559 dlg_config.h (and corresponding usage in dialog.h, etc), are altered
1560 from "HAVE_xxx" to "DLG_HAVE_xxx", etc.
1561 + add a check for getenv("HOME") in rc.c
1562 + add a call to end_dialog() in signal_handler for tailboxbg (from
1563 patch by Werner Fink).
1564 + correct initialization in checklist and radiobox for --default-item,
1565 scrolling as needed.
1566 + modify --visit-items option so that it puts the cursor initially on
1567 the list (in menubox, checklist and radiobox), accepts abbreviations
1568 for the buttons when the cursor is on the button-row, and otherwise
1569 (when --visit-items is given) abbreviations apply only to the list
1570 (report by Erika Pacholleck).
1571 + modify a few widgets (inputbox, textbox, yesno) to beep on unexpected
1573 + modify some msgbox widget to accept abbreviations of its button
1574 label, for consistency with other widgets (request by Erika
1576 + corrected logic of dlg_char_to_button(), making it check only the
1577 first uppercase letter in each button label rather than all uppercase
1578 letters (report by Erika Pacholleck, cf: 2003/09/10).
1579 + improved description of --clear and --keep-window options (adapted
1580 from Erika Pacholleck).
1581 + move discussion of --beep and --beep-signal options to Obsolete
1582 Options section of manpage, remove these from the help-message
1583 (report by Erika Pacholleck).
1584 + bracket extern's in dialog.h with C++ extern "C" declaration, in case
1585 the library is used from a C++ application.
1586 + modify inputmenu examples to allow ESC to cancel the script.
1587 + modify inputmenu widget to cancel edit on a TAB or ESC.
1588 + modify inputmenu widget to use the same color scheme for the editable
1589 text as the inputbox widget.
1590 + modify samples/killall to work around differences in "cut" versions.
1591 + use the color-caching from the \Z logic when loading the ".rc" file,
1592 thereby reducing the number of color pairs required, and making it
1593 less likely that deriving color pairs for drawing arrows on a given
1594 background will run out of colors.
1595 + save/restore window attributes in dlg_draw_arrows() and similar
1596 functions, to allow widgets to draw arrows using the widget's
1597 background rather than a common/fixed value (request by Erika
1599 + modify textbox widget so the down-arrow will be hidden when at the
1600 end of the file. (Modifying the up-arrow to be hidden is harder -
1601 will do this when implementing scrollbars).
1602 + correct off-by-one in fselect.c which left down-arrows showing at
1603 the bottom of directory- and file-lists (report by Erika Pacholleck).
1604 + improve display of percentages by omitting blanks where lines should
1606 + modify logic for \Z escapes to make those that set video attributes
1607 not clear the colors (report by Erika Pacholleck).
1608 + modify logic for \Z escapes to allow foreground and background
1609 colors to be the same, provided that bold attribute is set.
1610 Also improved the logic for choosing a background color when the
1611 foreground and background are the same (report by Erika Pacholleck).
1612 + updated configure script macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, ensuring that the
1613 _POSIX_C_SOURCE value is defined with a specific value (bug report
1614 originally for lynx).
1615 + fix configure script so that po/makefile is generated properly when
1616 the configure --srcdir --enable-nls options are used.
1617 + modify makefile.in to allow build/install from another directory,
1618 i.e., using configure --srcdir (patch by Mike Castle).
1619 + updated da.po (Debian #262587, Morten Brix Pedersen).
1620 + modify some sample scripts to avoid using grave quotes nested within
1621 double quotes with multiple file redirection, which does not work
1622 with Solaris /bin/sh (report/analysis by Eric Haller).
1623 + check for end of string immediately after a \Z escape to avoid
1624 displaying the null terminator as a ^@ (report by Erika Pacholleck).
1625 > patches by Erika Pacholleck:
1626 + modify calendar.c, fselect.c and timebox.c to use color scheme like
1627 other lists, using menubox colors rather than dialog colors.
1628 + correct charset for po/de.po, translate messages for "Help" and
1630 + omit parentheses around percentage in textbox.c
1631 + correct a few mismatched attributes, e.g., searchbox_attr in textbox.c,
1632 percentage in msgbox.c,
1636 + add test scripts to cover zero-width column case.
1637 + remove limit checks from checklist.c and menubox.c (cf: 2004/07/28),
1638 since some scripts use zero-width columns (Debian #262411 and report
1642 + modify msgbox.c to only reserve space for percentage shown as part
1643 of scrollable text for the msgbox widget. This makes infobox look
1644 as it did before 2004/06/06 changes (report by Vinesh Christopher)
1647 + remove redundant calls to wtimeout() from widgets since wtimeout()
1648 is properly called from ui_getc() where it is controlled by the
1649 --timeout option (bug report by juanjo).
1650 + add limit checks in checklist.c and menubox.c for very narrow screens
1651 (prompted by Steve Grubb patch).
1652 + initialize step in dlg_draw_buttons() in case it is used to draw
1653 a vertical list of buttons (prompted by Steve Grubb patch).
1654 > fixes by Steve Grubb:
1655 + correct logic in checklist.c (cf: 2003/11/26 changes) which turned
1656 quoting on unnecessarily for radiobox, breaking some old scripts.
1657 + increase size of array in dlg_ok_labels() to avoid overrun if extra
1658 and help buttons are used (cf: 2002/06/22 changes).
1659 + initialize fkey variable in menubox.c and textbox.c (cf: 2003/07/12).
1661 2004/07/21 - release 1.0
1662 + minor updates for configure script, i.e., CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
1663 CF_NCURSES_LIBS macros.
1664 + update config.guess, config.sub
1665 + add nl.po (Jacques Weewer).
1668 + add --visit-items option, which allows the user to tab to the item
1669 list in the checklist/radiobox and menubox widgets (request by
1671 + use wide-character line-drawing for up/down arrows when configured
1672 for wide-characters, gives better results with uxterm.
1673 + limit the number of times a --file option can be used, to prevent
1674 runaway recursion if a --file option is embedded within a file which
1676 + improve discussion of wrapping in the manpage (Debian #251937).
1677 + modify msgbox to allow it to scroll vertically like textbox (Debian
1678 #233276). This only works with ncurses.
1679 + implement $DIALOGVARS environment variable to apply common options to
1680 dialog_vars when it is reset before processing other common options.
1681 + add --single-quoted option to control whether output is double-quoted
1682 with '"' or single-quoted with single-quotes.
1683 + revert the default quoting behavior of checklists to use
1684 double-quotes (report by Mark K Post regarding Slackware scripts).
1685 + add eu.po (Basque) (Piarres Beobide Egaa).
1686 + add ca.po (Catalan) (Jordi Mallach).
1689 + add a call to flushinp() to init_dialog(), to discard any typeahead
1690 before dialog is invoked (Debian #244746).
1691 + correct dlg_match_char() function, which was broken during rewrite
1692 to support wide-characters (Debian #244777).
1693 + improved ru.po, uses UTF-8 charset (Leonid Kanter, Redhat #119200).
1694 + correct position of shadow drawn for dialogs, which appeared to work
1695 for most versions of curses (other than NetBSD) but would have been
1696 visible for certain color schemes (discussion with Julian Coleman).
1697 + correct loop-exit in longest_word() (Tomas Heredia, forwarded by
1699 + add cy.po (Welsh) (Dafydd Harries).
1702 + modify quoting of results to use single-quote rather than double
1703 quote, and ensure that results containing a quote or backslash
1704 character are escaped (report by Florent Rougon)
1705 + remove an incorrect comparison from checklist which made cursor
1706 stick on the last line, from 2004/03/01 changes.
1709 + add a dependency to install library if "--with-libtool" is used.
1710 + add manpage for the library.
1712 + modify formbox.c to support "--help-status" like menubox.
1713 + modify checklist.c to add item name to the "HELP" string when
1714 "--help-button" is used and no --item-help option is given (Debian
1715 #236841, report/patch by Jorg Sommer).
1716 + rename colors.h to dlg_colors.h, install that when the library is
1718 + add copyright notice to usage ("--help") message.
1719 + correct a missing bounds check for mouse-clicks in menubox (prompted
1721 + updated several configure-script macros: AM_GNU_GETTEXT,
1722 AM_WITH_NLS, CF_OUR_MESSAGES, CF_PROG_EXT, CF_WITH_DBMALLOC,
1723 CF_WITH_DMALLOC, CF_WITH_LIBTOOL, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE.
1726 + improve layout of calendar widget to allow for very long button
1727 labels (report by Santiago Vila).
1728 + correct logic for $DIALOG_TTY, broken in 2003/11/30. The environment
1729 variable must evaluate to a nonzero integer (report by Florent
1731 + document interaction between "--default-no" and "--no-cancel" options
1732 in manpage (Debian #223488).
1733 + change configure script to use autoconf 2.52+patch, to work around
1734 issues with Estonian locale (report by Seemant Kulleen).
1735 + add uk.po (Ukrainian) (Debian #232441).
1736 + make --default-item apply to checklist widget (Debian #225255).
1737 + correct a missing check for --item-help when --help-status was given
1738 for checklist (Debian #232921).
1739 + correct a missing bounds check for mouse-clicks in checklist (Debian
1741 + update config.guess, config.sub
1744 + correct infinite loop in yesno widget when "--defaultno" option is
1745 combined with "--no-cancel" (Debian #223077).
1748 + suppress double-quotes added for "--help-status" option if the
1749 string does not contain any special characters.
1752 + add samples/sourcemage.rc, for comparison with slackware.rc
1753 + add "--insecure" option (request by Sean Mathews (DrWho@f34r.com)).
1754 + make "--defaultno" option apply to widgets which use OK/Cancel
1755 buttons as well (Debian #209030).
1756 + improve documentation of exit-codes for each widget in the manpage
1758 + add option "--keep-window" to suppress repainting after completing
1759 each widget (request by Ingo van Lil).
1760 + add options "--yes-label" and "--no-label" to allow override of the
1761 "Yes" and "No" strings (request by Christoph Zwerschke).
1762 + add option "--help-status" to allow script to restore a checklist
1763 or radiolist after processing an item-help string (Debian #209031).
1764 + modify width-calculation for non-formatted text to ensure it is
1765 wide enough for the longest word in the text (patch by Andrew Gaul).
1766 + modify dlg_index_columns() to count a newline as a single cell rather
1767 than 2 for the normal curses case. This fixes an off-by-one for
1768 the text-justification, shown in screen 2 of msgbox1 sample script.
1769 + fix dlg_char_to_button(); 2003/09/10 changes made it incorrectly
1770 ignore case of the labels.
1771 + change calendar's use of arrow keys so they are (as before 2002/06/22)
1772 interpreted within the day-grid as movement within that grid (request
1774 + correct missing initialization of last_getc variable in dlg_getc()
1775 (report/analysis by Victor Wodecki).
1776 + modify main program to make
1777 dialog --no-shadow --print-maxsize
1778 work. Normally dialog prints the screen size after subtracting the
1779 area reserved for shadows, but some applications may need the actual
1780 screen size (Debian #213424).
1781 + several related changes (Debian #213425):
1782 + separate the examples using "--stdout" and "--output-fd" from the
1783 normal usage examples.
1784 + add "--input-fd" option, provide a sample of its use.
1785 + modify init_dialog() to use initscr() unless a "--stdout" option
1786 was used. Some scripts relied on the coincidence that redirecting
1787 standard output from dialog would "work". Before this change
1788 init_dialog() assumed that redirected standard output was
1789 synonymous with "--stdout" option (not the intended behavior).
1790 + modify command-line parsing to look for "--stdout" and "--stderr"
1791 options first, allowing only one.
1792 + add a check for an environment variable $DIALOG_TTY which provides
1793 the older behavior, i.e., try to open the terminal directly if
1794 stdout is redirected.
1795 + interface changes, to make libdialog simpler to use:
1796 + rename all of the internal functions to begin with "dlg_", but
1797 provide compatibility with older names if the application defines
1798 __DIALOG_OLD_NAMES__.
1799 + add dialog_version() function, and corresponding DIALOG_VERSION and
1800 DIALOG_PATCHDATE definitions to dlg_config.h
1801 + eliminate remaining global variables such as screen_initialized in
1802 favor of dialog_state and dialog_vars.
1803 + move some data such as dialog_vars.output to dialog_state, since
1804 they are normally not reset between widgets.
1805 + change interfaces of dialog_yesno() and dialog_checklist() to use
1806 dialog_state.defaultno and dialog_vars.separate_output, making it
1807 simpler and more consistent.
1808 + improve configure script and related definitions:
1809 + add "--with-libtool" option to provide shared library support by
1811 + rename generated "config.h" to "dlg_config.h", so it can be
1812 installed without naming conflict. Added "dlg_config.h" to
1814 + modify configure script and makefile to use EXEEXT and OBJEXT.
1815 + add "--enable-widec" option to control whether wide-curses features
1816 are compiled-in, rather than check for the existence of those in
1817 the curses library. This allows building with HPUX curses, which
1818 has abandoned legacy features while not quite supporting X/Open
1820 + add configure check for getbegx(), etc., which are not provided on
1822 + update config.guess, config.sub
1825 + update hu.po (Arpad Biro).
1826 + revert part of the 2003/08/18 change to "--stdout" option. Using
1827 stderr for screen output does not work well on several platforms
1828 since stdout's settings are affected (report by Kent Robotti).
1831 + modify tailbox to allow it to display files with arbitrarily long
1833 + fix an infinite loop in tailbox, broken when making interface changes
1834 to dlg_getc() (report by Ingo van Lil).
1835 + amend fix for "--and-widget" to not treat "---" as an option (report
1837 + updated es.po (Santiago Vila).
1840 + correct "RENAMED" result from inputmenu widget, which did not reset
1841 the result buffer, and did not account for scroll-offset (Debian
1843 + modify button, menu and checklist logic that matches a character to
1844 the beginning of a text field to support wide-characters (completes
1846 + modify configure script to not use "head -1".
1849 + modify searchbox popup in textbox widget so one can simply press
1850 return on an empty input to cancel the popup.
1851 + modify error reporting to avoid clearing screen if a problem is
1852 found in the ".rc" file.
1853 + add color/attribute combinations for form widget (based on patch by
1855 + combine rc-file colors, attribute- and color-tables to obtain a
1856 single table for color values, which requires less work to add new
1858 + modify fselect widget to make back-tab work again, since it was
1859 broken by the rewrite of dlg_edit_string().
1860 + modify howmany_tags() so it will quit searching when it finds any
1861 option, not only "--and-widget" (Debian #206636).
1862 + correct call to dlg_print_text() in print_line(), which did not
1863 account for hidden characters (report/patch by David Poole).
1864 + modify print_button() to display properly if locale defines ok/cancel
1865 or yes/no buttons that contain multibyte characters.
1868 + correct an indexing error when deleting from the end of a line using
1869 KEY_DC; it happened to work on Linux because malloc() clears memory
1871 + add '\r' to case statement where '\n' is translated to KEY_ENTER to
1872 work around defect in NetBSD curses.
1873 + modify configure check for getparyx(), etc., which are implemented
1874 by NetBSD curses as functions rather than macros.
1875 + correct configure check for term.h, which may be <ncursesw/term.h>
1876 if ncursesw development headers are installed, but not ncurses
1877 development headers. Or they may not coincide (Debian #206287).
1880 + modify checklist.c and menubox.c to display tags properly if they
1881 contain wide-characters.
1882 + better solution for initializing curses when "--stdout" option is
1883 used, e.g., use stderr for the output if it is a tty. Also correct
1884 the error handling, so dialog exits with an error if it cannot
1885 find a way to do output (Debian #205509).
1886 + modify sample scripts to use consistent definition of $DIALOG
1888 + add UTF-8 examples inputbox6-utf8, inputbox6-utf8 (from Tomohiro
1889 Kubota, Debian #195674).
1890 + modify print_line() to work with wide-characters, e.g., so it handles
1891 wrapping for double-width characters.
1892 + cache results from multibyte character indices, speeds up cursor
1894 + modify form widget to support scrolling and mouse-selection.
1895 + add form widget (based on patch by Reznic Valery).
1896 + correct mouse-handling for inputmenu widget.
1897 + corrections to menu.c: location of clearing operation, and height of
1898 rows in code for older ncurses versions (patch by Reznic Valery).
1899 + improve logic that compensates for xterm's alternate-screen by
1900 cancelling the rmcup/smcup strings after the rmcup has been issued.
1901 That ensures that dialog will not clear the screen on exit (report
1903 + modify initialization between widgets to retain the values for the
1904 --aspect, --separate-widget and --tab-len options.
1905 + add --separator as an alias for --separate-widget (compatible with
1907 + correct handling of Xdialog's --icon and --wmclass options, whose
1908 parameter was not ignored.
1909 + correct logic for --separate-widget so its string is written before
1910 each output, rather than only for --and-widget option (report by
1912 + improve limit-check in center_label() for buttons.c (report by Tor
1914 + correct layout of --menu widget, which reduced display width due to
1915 logic for --inputmenu being applied whether or not that configuration
1916 was used (reports by Javier Kohen, Dimitar Zhekov and MAL
1917 <mal@komcept.com>). Fixes Debian #201215.
1918 + modify gauge widget to support --begin option (Hans-Joachim Baader).
1919 + updated pl.po (Jaroslaw Swierczynski).
1920 + hide cursor while painting gauge.
1921 + add auto-sizing logic to gauge widget (reports by Javier Kohen and
1925 + rewrote inputstr.c, allowing it to enter and display wide-characters.
1926 Some nonprinting characters such as control/B can be edited as well.
1927 + modify timebox to allow user to type numbers into the fields.
1928 + change interfaces of dlg_getc(), mouse_wgetch(), etc., to add
1929 parameter that returns whether the result is really a function-key.
1930 This is needed to work with wide-character curses.
1931 + correct computation of week-number in calendar widget (report by
1933 + updated configure script macros:
1934 + suppress -Winline with gcc 3.3, since it is broken.
1935 + fix caching bug in CF_UTF8_LIB
1936 + improved script for CF_BUNDLED_INTL.
1937 + update config.guess, config.sub
1940 + add null-pointer checks to some malloc calls which were overlooked.
1941 + correct logic in dlg_add_result(), which did not copy content of
1942 non-allocated buffer to the first allocation (report by Daniel
1946 + correct an uninitialized value in dlg_add_result() (Debian #182683).
1949 + corrected print_line(), which subtracted the margin twice from the
1950 right-limit, making a string wrap unnecessarily (Debian #168823).
1951 + correct initial limit-check for arrows in checklist.c, which used
1952 the wrong variable, showing the bottom arrow when it should not
1954 + modify driver to always call show_result(), to simplify updates.
1955 + fix several memory leaks, important if dialog is run with a large
1956 number of widgets (report by albert.veli@telia.com forwarded by
1958 + check if the screen output is actually to the terminal before trying
1959 to suppress xterm's alternate screen mode (see 2000/01/18) (report by
1961 + use dialog_vars.input_result consistently to return the text which is
1962 printed after a widget completes. In many cases, dialog now
1963 allocates enough space to hold the text, rather than use a fixed
1964 buffer. The checklist widget was writing directly to the output to
1965 avoid limits of the fixed buffer.
1966 + modify dialog.c to also write dialog_vars.input_result if the
1967 Help-button was pressed (request by Amon Ott).
1968 + add hu.po (Arpad Biro).
1969 + update fr.po, pt.po, pt_BR.po to add strings for "Help" button (patch
1970 by Frederic L W Meunier).
1971 + fix off-by-one error in menu.c, checklist.c (reported by
1972 Tomasz Wasiak 2002/09/15 and others:
1973 Andrew Gaul 2002/11/12,
1974 Tobias C Rittweiler 2002/11/19,
1975 Arpad Biro 2003/01/21).
1976 + updated configure script, improving checks for ncurses in various
1977 locations, updated NLS script to match lynx. Added --with-curses-dir
1979 > Tobias C Rittweiler:
1980 + make ifdef in mousewget.c consistent with usage in dialog.h
1981 + use beep() rather than flash() in dlg_edit_string(), for consistency
1982 with the other functions.
1983 + change order of buttons so extra button falls between Ok/Cancel.
1984 + fix so "dialog --print-maxsize" exits from curses.
1985 + add --inputmenu option.
1988 + modify checklist.c and menubox.c to treat the extra button like the
1989 "Ok" button by making dialog print the chosen items (request by
1990 Tobias C Rittweiler).
1991 + add examples checklist6 and menubox6 to illustrate the --colors
1993 + implement -colors option, which allows one to highlight words in the
1994 titles and most text areas with color or video attributes (adapted
1995 from patch by Tobias C Rittweiler).
1996 + add examples inputbox4, inputbox5 to illustrate how to use the
1997 --output-fd option, and how to use dialog without any temporary
1999 + add --output-fd option (Debian #153984).
2000 + documented vi-style keys for calendar, textbox widgets in manpage.
2003 + improve mouse handling, e.g., for up/down scrolling in calendar,
2005 + add --extra-button and --extra-label options (adapted from patch
2006 by Tobias C Rittweiler).
2007 + correct displayed cursor position in inputbox when returning to the
2008 input area after traversing the buttons with tabs, etc.
2009 + add left/right arrows for traversal in calendar and timebox dialogs.
2010 + implement two new functions dlg_next_ok_buttonindex() and
2011 dlg_prev_ok_buttonindex(), using these to hide details about the
2012 traversal over buttons in several widgets.
2013 + modify checklist.c and menubox.c to verify if both --help-button and
2014 --item-help are specified before assuming that selecting the help
2015 button should cause the "HELP {item-help}" message to be printed
2016 (reported by Marcel Ritter).
2017 + modify init_dialog() to work around HP's broken tty driver (report by
2018 John Mudd). Specifically, the problem is that when opening /dev/tty
2019 directly (to support the --stdout option), the terminal does not
2020 change to raw mode. The workaround opens /dev/tty only as needed;
2021 the --stdout option does not work on HPUX but otherwise dialog works.
2022 + updated el.po (patch by kromJx <kromJx@crosswinds.net>).
2024 2002/05/19 - release 0.9b
2025 + add --no-collapse option to allow one to retain tabs and repeated
2026 blanks in a message box (request by Roberto Simoni).
2027 + use DLG_EXIT_ESC constant rather than -1's in several places. This
2028 has the effect of changing some exit-with-error cases to denote that
2029 the exit was because ESC was pressed (patch by Diego Alvarez,
2030 forward by Santiago Vila).
2031 + bump package version to 0.9b (with patch-date, as usual).
2032 + add --exit-label option (request by Roberto Simoni).
2033 + updated de.po to correct translation for "Cancel" (from Michael
2034 Piefel, Debian #146402).
2035 + use definitions from autoconf macro AC_HEADER_TIME to ensure that
2036 time() is properly prototyped.
2037 + update pl.po, adding translation for "Help" (patch by Jaroslaw
2038 Swierczynski <swiergot@hacking.pl>).
2039 + update COPYING file, to reflect address change of FSF (reported by
2041 + update some configuration script macros: CF_CHECK_CACHE,
2042 CF_CURSES_CPPFLAGS, CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_MAKEFLAGS.
2043 + correct misuse of "$with_XXX" variables in the configure script,
2044 which prevented configuration against curses library as opposed to
2046 + update config.guess, config.sub
2049 + modify geometry of samples/fselect scripts to allow them to run in
2050 a 24x80 screen (report/patch by Santiago Vila).
2051 + correct exit-code for menubox.c when Cancel is pressed. This was
2052 unintentionally altered when adding --help-button (reported by
2053 Patrick J Volkerding)
2056 + add --timeout option, which forces the program to exit with an error
2057 if no user response is given within the specified number of seconds
2058 (request by <andrew@argoncorp.com>).
2059 + modify calendar widget to allow day/month/year values to default to
2060 the current date (request by <Ron.Perrella@bellsouth.com>).
2061 + modify display of buttons in checklist.c and menubox.c to handle the
2062 case where the button label is empty (Debian #134388).
2063 + extended logic for ok/cancel/help to make this work with checklist
2065 + revert pt_BT.po, apply changes to pt.po (report by Frederic L W
2067 > several changes from Stanislav Ievlev:
2068 + add options --help-button and --help-label to make menubox display a
2069 third button which can be used to return an exit code causing the
2070 calling script to show extended help information.
2071 + use home/end keys in input string-editing, e.g., inputbox.
2072 + add option --max-input to limit length of string returned by inputbox
2073 and other widgets which allow the user to edit a string.
2076 + add --ok-label and --cancel-label options (request by Kyle Sallee).
2077 + correct usage message for --fselect option (reported by Patrick J
2079 + add samples/debian.rc, for comparison with slackware.rc
2080 + corrected samples/slackware.rc, which was just the compiled-in
2081 default values (patch by Patrick J Volkerding).
2082 + modify search rule for rc-file to add a global rc file /etc/dialogrc
2083 (patch by Patrick J Volkerding).
2084 + updated pt_BR.po with modified entries for fselect.c (Frederic L W
2086 + add pl.po (Swiergot <swiergot@l02.ids.czest.pl>).
2089 + modify command-line parsing to allow a "--" argument to act as an
2090 escape, so the next argument is not recognized as an option if it
2091 begins with "--". This is apparently one of popt's undocumented
2092 features, upon which some Debian scripts depend (Debian #116642).
2093 + add da.po (Morten Brix Pedersen <morten@wtf.dk>).
2094 + add an install-strip rule to makefile, changing the normal install
2095 rule to not strip the installed executable (based on discussion with
2097 + initialize my_output variable if user cannot open /dev/tty, e.g., if
2098 su'd to another user (patch by Richard Braakman (<dark@ssh.com>), Debian
2100 + add configure option --with-ncursesw, to allow configure/build with
2101 wide-character version of ncurses.
2104 + add option --ignore, to make dialog be ignore options that it does
2106 + add option --trim, to trim literal newlines and repeated spaces from
2107 text that will be displayed. Add samples/msgbox2, which is the
2108 same as msgbox1, but using --trim (cf: change for Debian #102942).
2109 + minor correction to attributes for buttons.c to use active_attr on
2110 the right-side of a button.
2111 + add a sample dialog rc-file slackware.rc based on diffs in hdasetup
2113 http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/slackware/slackware/source/a/hdsetup/
2114 (discussion with Frederic L W Meunier).
2115 + modify dialog.pl to avoid using a statically-named tempfile, allowing
2116 multiple processes to use this script (patch by James Ranson
2117 (<euclid80@yahoo.com>), Debian #110609).
2118 + correct fprintf() call in j_menu() function, i.e., "--menu" option,
2119 which did not guard against expanding '%' embedded in the parameters
2120 (Stavros Chatzistefanidis <sxatz@yahoo.com>).
2121 + add et.po (Ivar Smolin <okul@trenet.ee>).
2122 + update fr.po (Frederic L W Meunier).
2123 + modify to allow scripts to alter the exit codes, mainly to
2124 distinguish ESC and ERROR exits. This is done by setting a shell
2125 variable such as DIALOG_ESC to a new value (request by Petr Vandrovec
2126 (<vandrove@vc.cvut.cz>), Debian #99264)
2129 + use VPATH in makefile to support build with configure --srcdir, if
2130 the make program supports that. Note that samples/install/makefile
2131 is not generated, due to awkward limitation of autoconf script
2132 (reported by Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>).
2133 + add po/pt_BR.po (Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>).
2134 + correct sense of --enable/--disable shown in configure --help (report
2135 by Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>).
2136 + correct logic for --clear option, broken in 2000/07/02 (fixes Debian
2140 + porting fixes to work on AIX: flush output to work around bug in
2141 curses library, use ./killall in scripts to avoid conflict with
2142 AIX program by that name.
2143 + modify dlg_trim_string() to retain literal newlines if the string
2144 does not contain "\\n" strings, and to retain leading blanks on the
2145 resulting lines, for compatibility with older scripts (Debian
2147 + add charset specification to cs.po
2148 + change dates in CHANGES to consistent format, add el.po for Greek
2149 (patch by kromJx <kromJx@crosswinds.net>).
2150 + eliminate static globals (bss, data) from modules rc, tailbox,
2151 textbox using better parameter-passing convention, and const.
2152 + cleanup temporary files in a few of the sample scripts.
2153 + rewrote tailboxbg using select() rather than fork(), thereby
2154 eliminating lock-files. Only one process should be trying to display
2155 on the screen at any given time.
2156 + add error check to ensure that numeric parameters are really numbers.
2157 + correct off-by-one in error messages reporting too-few or too-many
2158 tokens for a given option (reported by George Mirchev).
2159 + fix typo in manpage, "textboxbg" where "tailboxbg" was meant
2160 (reported by George Mirchev <la@mail.techno-link.com>).
2161 + use DLG_EXIT_xxx symbols consistently for all exit codes.
2162 + updated es.po (patch by Santiago Vila).
2163 + updates for some configure script macros from lynx: CF_MAKEFLAGS,
2164 CF_NCURSES_VERSION, CF_PROG_EXT.
2165 + fixes to compile if <term.h> is included, e.g., when building with
2166 AIX curses (report by Suzi Dowson <Suzi.Dowson@capgemini.co.uk>).
2169 + updated dialog.pot
2170 + modify fselect.c to work with autosize, i.e., given height and width
2171 zero (report by Martin Povolny).
2172 + add a null-pointer check in justify_text(), needed by fselect.c
2173 + add several more options which dialog can safely ignore, from
2175 + refinements for configure macros checking for $CPPFLAGS, from lynx.
2176 + update config.guess, config.sub to match autoconf 2.50
2177 > Martin Povolny <martin@solnet.cz>:
2179 + use nl_langinfo() to customize names for day-of-week, and month
2182 > Vincent Stemen <dialog@AdvancedResearch.org>:
2183 Fixed dialog.c to not pass menu items through dlg_trim_string().
2184 Stripping extra spaces out of the menu items broke some of my
2185 scripts by altering the string that it compared to know which menu
2186 item was selected. There should be no need to do justification on
2187 the menu items, which are always one line, anyway.
2190 > Vincent Stemen <dialog@AdvancedResearch.org>:
2191 + rewrote the text justification code to be able to have preformatted
2192 text in the prompts with extra spaces like the older versions of
2193 dialog. If there are "\n" strings in the text, then extra spaces are
2194 preserved. Lines are always wrapped on word boundaries.
2195 + fixed --cr-wrap to break lines on '\n' (newline) characters and not
2196 add an extra line at the top and bottom of the text. It now works
2197 as the manual says it should.
2198 + it is no longer necessary to use "\n\" at the end of lines to escape
2199 the '\n' character. "\n" now works. However, the old way, "\n\"
2201 + the fixes involved the following changes:
2202 - rewrote dlg_trim_string() to recognize preformatted text (know
2203 when not to strip extra spaces) and to pay attention to --cr-wrap.
2204 - rewrote justify_text() which now calls a new function in util.c,
2205 print_line(), to print each line and end it on a word boundary.
2206 - modified real_auto_size() to call a new function
2207 auto_size_preformated() to calculate the box size for preformatted
2209 - removed skip_blanks() and skip_text() since they are not used by
2210 the new justify_text().
2211 - modified dialog.c to not call dlg_trim_string() on title strings
2212 so that titles retain their spaces.
2213 + modified the following demo files in the sample directory:
2215 changed all "\n\" strings to "\n" to demonstrate the extra
2216 backslash is no longer needed.
2218 removed all the "\n\" strings from the end of the lines to
2219 properly demonstrate --cr-wrap.
2221 this sample was using "--aspect 9 --cr-wrap". Rewrote it to
2222 properly demonstrate --aspect. 9 is already dialog's default
2223 aspect ratio. It now creates several dialogs in sequence,
2224 demonstrating aspect ratios of 9, 12 and 6 and properly
2225 demonstrates --cr-wrap.
2226 + made the following changes to the manual (dialog.1).
2227 - rewrote the description of --aspect to be more understandable.
2228 - rewrote the description of --cr-wrap to be more correct and more
2229 detailed. It did say, "Otherwise, the text for each dialog will
2230 display on a single line.", which is not correct. It wraps the
2231 text to fit in the box.
2233 + use logic from menubox dialog in checklist to handle autosizing when
2234 list height is given as zero (fixes problem reported by Eric Veltman
2235 <eveltman@baan.nl>).
2236 + modify checklist and menubox dialogs to check for too-wide data, and
2237 truncate one or both of the name and text fields to fit (also
2238 reported by Eric Veltman).
2239 + corrected a few items from Vincent's patch:
2240 - use C89-style comments rather than C++
2241 - restore logic in justify_text() which checks for win==0, needed to
2242 work with standard curses implementations other than ncurses.
2243 The first call on justify_text() passes a null pointer as a flag
2244 to indicate that checking should be done, but no screen updates.
2245 - avoid modifying the buffer in decode_percent(), otherwise a message
2246 containing a space or newline would be truncated at the whitespace.
2247 - modify dlg_button_x_step() and dlg_button_layout() slightly to
2248 work with altered print_autowrap(), etc.
2249 + fixes to build/work with SunOS 4.x 5lib curses
2252 + fix a memory leak in mouse_region().
2253 + simplify handling of optional parameters with new functions
2254 optional_str() and optional_num().
2255 + add calendar and timebox dialogs (compatible with Xdialog).
2256 + correct typo in fallback definition for getparyx, and remove void
2257 cast for mouse_open and mouse_close which prevented build with
2258 Sun's Solaris compiler.
2259 + rename --enable-lxdialog configure option to --enable-Xdialog
2260 + modify CF_NCURSES_CPPFLAGS macro to match more variations of ncurses
2262 + update config.guess, config.sub
2263 + modify some configure script macros to avoid problems with buggy
2264 autoconf 2.49c which breaks changequote().
2267 + small fix to revised real_auto_size() and justify_text() to avoid
2268 adding origin to box-width, which broke samples/wheel.
2269 + apply 1999/12/25 tempfile change to wheel and copismall samples.
2270 + add sample script for tailboxbg.
2271 + revised lock-file management to better ensure that locks are actually
2272 created by the tailbox subprocess(es).
2273 + correct hardcoded signal 15 in tailbox to SIGHUP to match
2274 documentation. Signal 15 is usually SIGTERM, which cannot be caught.
2275 + correct off-by-one comparison of return-value for arg_rest() which
2277 dialog --gauge test 10 50
2278 dump core because it expected a 4th parameter (fixes Debian #80641).
2279 + resync config.sub, config.guess from
2280 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/config/ (which finally have
2281 cases for OS/2 EMX), minor tweaks to related configure script macros.
2284 + restore treatment of predefined height/width in real_auto_size()
2285 which was lost in 2000/12/12 rewrite (report by Raphael Halimi
2286 <raphaelh@easynet.fr>).
2287 + updates for configure script macros AM_PATH_PROG_WITH_TEST,
2288 CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_LIB_PREFIX, CF_PROG_EXT for $PATHSEP and $CFLAGS
2292 + correct change for create_lock(), which resulted in an infinite loop
2293 (patch by Chris Butler, <chrisb@debian.org>).
2296 + rewrote print_autowrap() and real_auto_size() to share common code
2297 justify_text(), which now does text flow even when the string
2298 contains newlines (fixes Debian #77199).
2299 + improve create_lock() function using open() with O_EXCL rather than
2300 fopen() (patch by Matt Kraai (<kraai@debian.org>), Debian #78951).
2301 + correct description of --fselect in man page (patch by Tomas Pospisek
2302 (<tpo@spin.ch>), Debian #77200).
2303 + add --no-cancel as alias for --nocancel for compatibility with
2304 Xdialog (report by Luis E Limon <luisl@abriasoft.com>).
2307 + some lint fixes using lclint (mostly void-casts, but some
2308 sign-extension fixes e.g., for ctype.h macros, and loop in
2309 dlg_char_to_button()).
2310 + modified to build/run on OS/2 EMX with ncurses.
2311 + minor changes to po/*.po (trim trailing blanks, provide explicit
2312 translation for "OK"), to work with Solaris gettext.
2313 + modified to allow this to build with archaic version (1.8.6)
2314 of ncurses on FreeBSD 3.1 (does not run).
2315 + update config.guess, config.sub from subversions.gnu.org
2318 + use new function sub_window() to check success/failure of calls to
2319 subwin(), printing an error message if it fails (fixes Debian #74903).
2320 + use combination of isatty/ttyname to look for workable tty device
2321 on systems which have no /dev/tty, e.g., BeOS.
2324 + change exiterr() to use stdarg.h, make some messages easier to
2326 + add dialog_clear()
2327 + make samples/install/setup build.
2328 + implemented mouse support for buttons, e.g., in yesno dialog using
2329 ncurses (the gpm support no longer works, but is useful for reference)
2330 + add a configure check for chtype.
2331 + updates for configure script macros (CF_BUNDLED_INTL, CF_CURSES_LIBS,
2332 CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_GCC_WARNINGS, CF_INCLUDE_DIRS), and scripts
2333 config.guess, config.sub
2334 + cleanup of item-help change, integrate with checklist and radiobox.
2335 + add ja.po, from Hirofumi Takeda <takepin@turbolinux.co.jp>.
2336 > patch by Marco Mariani <marcom@sferacarta.com>
2337 + add --item-help option, which makes menubox data interpreted as
2338 3 columns rather than 2. The third column is displayed on the
2339 last line of the screen as a help/status message for the currently
2342 + change TAG_KEY_HL to FALSE, making unselected items in checklist
2343 easier to read on Linux console.
2346 + change real_auto_size() to allow it to be used for dialogs that have
2347 no prompt, e.g., fselect. Also, rather than requiring both height
2348 and width to be given as -1 for maximizing the dialog, allow either
2350 + increase minimum height needed for autosized yesno dialog.
2351 + add --version as an alias for --print-version.
2352 + fix for build on Solaris without NLS (cannot redefine 'gettext()').
2353 + add fselect dialog (compatible with Xdialog).
2354 + add --enable-lxdialog configure option.
2355 + use new configure macro CF_ARG_MSG_ENABLE to show progress with
2356 enable/disable switches.
2359 + implement --stdout and --stderr options as in Xdialog.
2360 + move logic that translates "\\n" into '\n' into main program to
2361 simplify logic that formats text.
2362 + make ifdef's for rc-file not specific to ncurses.
2363 + correct logic making percent parameter of gauge optional.
2366 + add alternate test-script for gauge, adapted from Xdialog.
2367 + modify gauge to make optional a percentage which was read at the
2368 beginning of the XXX-delimited message text, since clones of dialog
2369 are written to assume this is text. If the line is not a simple
2370 integer, dialog will treat it as text.
2371 + make the percent parameter of gauge optional, as in Xdialog.
2372 + undo one use of CharOf() in guage.c, an error.
2373 + fix configure macro AM_WITH_NLS to refrain from attempting to make a
2374 symbolic link into/libintl.h if we are not using the bundled intl
2375 directory from gettext (reported by Julian Coleman
2376 <J.D.Coleman@newcastle.ac.uk>).
2377 + add ru.po, from Michael Sobolev <mss@transas.com>
2378 + updates for config.guess, config.sub from tin.
2379 + updates for configure script macros: CF_MATH_LIB (improperly nested
2380 brackets/parenthesis) and CF_XOPEN_CURSES (make include of
2381 <*curses.h> depend on configure tests).
2384 + repaint screen when a control/L is pressed.
2385 + apply CharOf() macro to avoid sign-extension on calls to waddch(),
2386 fixes a problem with accented characters (reported by Santiago Vila).
2387 + add es.po, from Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>
2390 + modified to use gettext (configure option --enable-nls). This uses
2391 gettext 0.10.35, which must be previously installed. (It can also
2392 use an included intl library, but I consider that to be a waste of
2394 + remove code in checklist/radiobox, menubox that try to use
2395 abbreviations for the OK/Cancel buttons since those conflict with the
2396 check for abbreviations in list entries, which are more useful.
2397 + moved padding of button labels out of string literals, into the
2398 logic of dlg_draw_buttons().
2399 + resync/update with configure macros CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_FIND_LIBRARY,
2400 CF_HEADER_PATH, CF_LIBRARY_PATH and CF_NCURSES_LIBS, as well as
2401 mkdirs.sh and config.guess.
2404 + add --default-item option, for menubox to set the default selection
2405 (fixes Debian #49796).
2406 + add sample scripts for --nocancel and --fb options with inputbox.
2407 + modify inputbox* sample scripts to show application errors, if any.
2408 + add --nocancel option, and ignore --noitem, --fb, --fullbutton, to
2409 make this compatible with whiptail scripts. (whiptail does not
2410 handle many dialog scripts however).
2411 + modify checklist/radiobox to handle home, end, nextpage, prevpage
2412 keys, as well as make the abbreviation search work for the whole
2413 list, not only the current page.
2414 + treat KEY_LL the same as KEY_END in checklist and textbox.
2415 + add logic for KEY_BTAB.
2416 + use new function dlg_draw_buttons() to better manage the layout of
2417 yes/no/ok/cancel buttons.
2418 + another pass of cleanup of dialog.c, makes it use a single table for
2419 lookup of option names and help-message. Eliminated numerous
2420 adjustments to 'offset' variable.
2421 + on initialization, check if standard input is from a terminal. If
2422 not, open /dev/tty (fixes Debian #57771)
2425 + implement inline editing in textbox.c search dialog.
2426 + revise inputbox.c, allowing inline editing with arrow-keys. removed
2427 redundant logic in that module.
2428 + correct a typo that prevented rc-file configuration from building.
2429 + correct ifdef's to compile/run if the curses implementation does not
2433 + improve test-case for gauge.
2434 + change gauge.c to show progress in reverse-video, add a check for
2435 end-of-file in the loop for reading new messages.
2436 + use curses whline() function to simplify print_arrows() logic in
2437 checklist.c and menubox.c
2438 + use curses beep() function rather than hardcoded strings.
2439 + correct several compiler warnings for gcc -pedantic (mismatch of
2440 const, signed/unsigned).
2441 + modify exiterr() to avoid possible expansion of '%'.
2442 + change CF_MATH_LIB configure macro to allow specifying a particular
2443 test-function. For dialog, this should be sqrt(). The macro was
2444 originally written for ncurses, which needs sin(). However, that is
2445 a builtin function on the m68k port (reported by Roman Hodek
2446 <Roman.Hodek@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>, this fixes Debian #55553).
2449 + update manpage (Debian #25648).
2450 + modify configure test for math library to avoid using a constant
2451 parameter to the test function, lest gcc optimize the call away
2452 (fixes Debian #55553).
2453 + restructure help-message so actual problem is indicated. The original
2454 help-message is shown if no parameters are given, or if the --help
2455 option is specified alone.
2456 + suppress xterm's alternate screen mode by sending an exit_ca_mode
2457 after initscr if the terminal looks like xterm, e.g., has key_mouse
2458 defined, and has private-mode escapes in both enter_ca_mode and
2459 exit_ca_mode (fixes Debian #55181).
2460 + change yellow lettering on white to blue on white, since it offers
2461 better contrast (fixes Debian #51196).
2462 + use napms() rather than sleep().
2463 + some cleanup/simplification of main program. Indent'd dialog.c and
2465 + eliminate several places where repeated options are treated as
2466 an error, since they are really executed once anyway.
2469 + remove pre-autoconf Makefile
2470 + remove sleep's from a few of the sample scripts, which left users
2471 thinking that dialog was slow to complete an action.
2472 + rewrote infobox sample script, using dialog's --sleep option and
2473 a loop in the script.
2474 + change 'ch' variable in tailbox.c to an integer, because it is
2475 compared against EOF (fixes Debian #53157).
2476 + corrected mandir variable in makefile.in (reported by Santiago Vila).
2477 + small changes to sample scripts, from Debian: rename "guage" script
2478 to "gauge", change path to copy of GPL used in textbox.
2479 + add uninstall rule to makefile.in, fixed some dependencies so
2480 "make install" works without first doing "make all".
2483 + use more portable scheme for tempfile generation in samples.
2484 + add a configure script, prefer to not use the original Makefile
2485 because it works only with GNU make.
2486 + correct prototype of 'main()', which misused const.
2487 + modify guage.c to use fgets() rather than gets().
2488 + merge changes from Debian package maintainer
2489 Santiago Vila <sanvila@ctv.es>:
2492 + add a password dialog box (Debian #45964, patch by Joey Hess).
2493 + implement "--defaultno" option to specify if the default for
2494 the yes/no box is "No" (Debian #46076, patch by Joey Hess).
2496 + modify input.c to clear the input field to the right of the
2497 given string, to help with screen-refresh
2499 + check for list_height less than one in checklist.c (Debian
2502 + use function wscrl() in preference to scroll() in checklist.c
2503 and menubox.c (unclear: in ncurses, scroll() is a macro that
2505 + remove the "-I/usr/include/ncurses" option from Makefile
2506 since Debian does not install ncurses' header files into
2509 + simplify menubox.c using new functions print_arrows() and
2510 print_items(). add logic to handle KEY_NPAGE and KEY_PPAGE
2512 + modifications to provide sample scripts (Debian #26211):
2513 + change sample scripts to use Debian tempfile utility rather
2514 than putting files into /tmp.
2515 + change sample scripts to use 'dialog' from user's path
2516 rather than in the parent directory as in the build
2518 + use the system copy of GPL rather than that in the build
2519 directory as an example for the textbox script.
2522 + fix some gcc warnings about ambiguous use of "else"
2525 + cleaned up some of the redundant code with new functions:
2532 + modified msgbox.c and yesno.c to work with the KEY_RESIZE sigwinch
2533 handling in ncurses 4.2
2535 + corrected spelling of "gauge"
2537 The relevant portions of the Debian change log for the original version
2538 (dialog-0.9a-12) are abstracted here, omitting details of their packaging:
2542 + Replaced guage.c by the one in dialog 0.6z, which is known to work.
2543 Fixes Debian #18284: unstable dialog.
2547 + dialog.c: dialog_input_result printed with "%s" format. This was
2548 Debian #9913, fixed by Bill Mitchell, but the change was lost.
2549 + Pristine source, .depend is not removed in clean target. Instead, it
2550 is made zero length (otherwise it would not work *without* fakeroot).
2551 + Added '^U' support in input box (Debian #9915, patch by Joey Hess).
2552 + Wrote patch to fix core-dumping problem (Debian #13170). Sven Rudolph
2553 <sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de>: