__________________________________________________________________ [5]http://invisible-island.net/ Copyright © 1999-2015,2016 by Thomas E. Dickey __________________________________________________________________ DIALOG – Script-driven curses widgets * [6](top) * [7]Synopsis * [8]History + [9]Early History + [10]My Involvement... + [11]Dialog's ChangeLog * [12]Compatibility + [13]Older versions of dialog + [14]Xdialog + [15]whiptail + [16]gdialog + [17]zenity + [18]kdialog * [19]Documentation * [20]Download * [21]Screenshot * [22]Related Links + [23]Packages + [24]Programs + [25]Other * [26]Bugs Synopsis Though similar in style to [27]CDK, it is different, being a script-interpreter which provides a set of curses widgets. Widgets are objects whose appearance and behavior can be customized. There is a much-reduced variation of dialog, called lxdialog, which is used in Linux kernel configuration. History Early History Dialog was written by Savio Lam <lam836@cs.cuhk.hk> and modified by several people: CAPTION: Early Dialog History Date Version Developer Features 1993/12/17 0.1 Savio Lam The options in the initial release of dialog were --inputbox, --msgbox, and --yesno. 1994/01/03 0.2 Savio Lam Several options were added: --checklist, --clear, --infobox, --menu, --textbox, and --title. 1994/01/13 0.3 Savio Lam This added simple color support, along with the --create-rc option to configure it at runtime. 1994/06/11 0.4 Stuart Herbert This improved the color support, providing the 3-dimensional appearance by using shadows. It also added the --backtitle and --radiolist options. 1994/10/08 0.4 fork FreeBSD developers Andrey A Chernov imported dialog 0.4 into the FreeBSD source tree, splitting it into program- and library-sections. * Andrey A Chernov added a prgbox function to allow running a program via a pipe to a dialog box. * Anatoly A Orehovsky added a widget for displaying file-trees, e.g., as produced by the find program as well as more general uses. * Marc van Kempen added a file-selector, as well as a different gauge widget. The main use of this version of dialog was reportedly [28]sysinstall. That was replaced by this version of dialog for FreeBSD 9.0 by Nathan Whitehorn and others. I made improvements to dialog to help with this starting [29]early in 2011, adding these options: --hfile, --hline, --prgbox, and --programbox. 1994/11/07 0.5 Marc Ewing This added the --gauge and --separate-output options. It modified the --inputbox option to provide for an (optional) initial value. The dialog.pl file was added as an example. 1995/01/28 0.6 Marc Ewing Only bug-fixes were made. 1995/09/12 0.6c Florian La Roche Added mouse support by Rubini, dated 1994. This also adapted changes from 0.5 or 0.6, adding the gauge widget (but misspelled). The misspelling propagated into cdialog. 1995/08/17 0.6z John Gatewood Ham This added no new features. It modified the usage message to show only those features that were compiled-in. 1996/01/15 0.9a Pasquale De Marco "Pako" This is cdialog, based on 0.6c. It added many new options: --and-widget, --aspect, --beep, --beep-after, --begin, --cr-wrap, --no-kill, --print-maxsize, --print-size, --print-version, --size-err, --sleep, --tab-correct, --tab-len, --tailbox, and --tailboxbg. 1996/01/16 0.69 Allesandro Rubini This is a fork of 0.6z, not used by later development. 1997/01/09 0.6z John Gatewood Ham In my copy, the samples and docs were updated about a year later. 2001/02/06 0.61a Thomas Regner This added a file-selector dialog option --file. The README states that it was distributed as a patch to 0.6z, however my copy was fully-patched (probably a copy of the tar-ball from which the patch was made). Vincent Stemen incorporated this work in the patches which he sent to me. That became the --fselect widget. Later, [30]in 2004 I later added a different option named --file. 2001/03/16 [31]0.7 Vincent Stemen This is based on 0.61a, intentionally between 0.6z and 0.9a-20010115. Vincent sent patches to me [32]in 2001 to add his changes to my ongoing snapshots, so that this fork's changes were not lost. My Involvement I became involved with dialog for the same reason as [33]Cdk: they were the most well-known applications using [34]ncurses, and I realized that they were not being maintained well enough to reflect ncurses' capabilities. Initially, I made fixes and reviewed the code to ensure that problems reported were not related to [35]ncurses. After that, I resumed development, adding new widget types. See the [36]changelog for details. [37]At the end of 2005, I relicensed dialog as LGPL. It was GPL before, which made it (the dialog library in particular) unusable by developers of non-GPL programs. After several requests, I discussed this with Santiago Vila (the Debian package maintainer), indicating my intention to audit the code, and remove as needed any fragments predating my work. I reviewed the code (studying the changes using [38]diffstat and [39]tkdiff) and found that over the course of development and improvements, I had replaced all of the original program. After accounting for the license notice itself, blank lines and curly braces, there was no trace of the 0.9a+Debian version. Because I had replaced the original program with my own work, that made me an "original author" of dialog, and allowed me to relicense it. __________________________________________________________________ Dialog's ChangeLog * [40]the changelog in html form * [41]CHANGES (flat-text changelog) dialog has (at the end of 2012) 99 options shown in its usage message. Of those, 29 set a box (widget) type. CAPTION: Dialog widget-options Name Version --buildlist [42]1.2 2012/12/30 --calendar [43]0.9b 2001/04/15 --checklist 0.2 --dselect [44]1.1 2007/02/27 --editbox [45]1.1 2007/02/27 --form [46]1.0 2003/08/18 --fselect [47]1.1 2007/02/27 --gauge 0.5 --infobox 0.2 --inputbox 0.1 --inputmenu [48]1.0 2003/01/30 --menu 0.2 --mixedform [49]1.1 2007/02/27 --mixedgauge [50]1.1 2007/02/27 --msgbox 0.1 --passwordbox [51]0.9a 1999/12/25 --passwordform [52]1.0 2005/12/07 --pause [53]1.0 2004/12/19 --prgbox [54]1.1 2011/03/02 --programbox [55]1.1 2011/03/02 --progressbox [56]1.1 2006/01/19 --radiolist 0.4 --rangebox [57]1.2 2012/12/30 --tailbox 0.9a --tailboxbg 0.9a --textbox 0.2 --timebox [58]0.9b 2001/04/15 --treeview [59]1.2 2012/12/30 --yesno 0.1 The other visible options set common variables used by the widgets: CAPTION: Dialog common options Name Version --ascii-lines [60]1.1 2007/02/27 --and-widget 0.9a --aspect 0.9a --backtitle 0.4 --beep-after 0.9a --beep 0.9a --begin 0.9a --cancel-label [61]0.9a 2001/12/02 --clear 0.2 --colors [62]0.9b 2002/08/14 --column-separator [63]1.1 2008/07/27 --cr-wrap 0.9a --create-rc 0.4 --date-format [64]1.1 2010/01/19 --default-button [65]1.1 2012/07/03 --default-item [66]0.9a 2000/02/22 --defaultno [67]0.9a 1999/12/25 --exit-label [68]0.9b 2002/05/19 --extra-button [69]0.9b 2002/06/22 --extra-label [70]0.9b 2002/06/22 --help-button [71]0.9b 2002/03/09 --help-label [72]0.9b 2002/03/09 --help-status [73]0.9b 2003/11/26 --hfile [74]1.1 2011/06/30 --hline [75]1.1 2011/06/30 --ignore [76]0.9b 2001/10/14 --input-fd [77]0.9b 2003/11/26 --insecure [78]0.9b 2003/11/26 --item-help [79]0.9b 2000/10/08 --keep-tite [80]1.1 2007/02/27 --keep-window [81]0.9b 2003/11/26 --max-input [82]0.9a 2002/03/09 --no-cancel [83]0.9b 2000/12/12 --no-collapse [84]0.9b 2002/05/19 --no-items [85]1.2 20121230 --no-kill 0.9a --no-label [86]0.9a 2001/12/02 --no-lines [87]1.1 2007/02/27 --no-mouse [88]1.1 2011/01/18 --no-nl-expand [89]1.1 2011/06/30 --no-ok [90]1.1 2007/09/30 --no-shadow 0.9a --no-tags [91]1.2 20121230 --no-items [92]1.2 20121230 --nook [93]1.1 2007/09/30 --notags [94]1.2 20121230 --ok-label [95]0.9a 2001/12/02 --output-fd [96]0.9b 2002/08/14 --output-separator [97]1.1 2008/07/27 --print-maxsize 0.9a --print-size 0.9a --print-version 0.9a --quoted [98]1.1 2008/07/27 --scrollbar [99]1.1 2010/01/19 --separate-output 0.5 --separate-widget 0.9a --shadow 0.9a --single-quoted [100]0.9b 2004/06/06 --size-err 0.9a --sleep 0.9a --stderr [101]0.9a 2000/07/02 --stdout [102]0.9a 2000/07/02 --tab-correct 0.9a --tab-len 0.9a --time-format [103]1.1 2010/01/19 --timeout [104]0.9a 2002/03/09 --title 0.2 --trace [105]1.1 2007/02/27 --trim [106]0.9a 2001/10/14 --version [107]0.9a 2000/0...
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