2011/03/02
+ add --prgbox and --programbox (adapted from patch by David Boyd).
+ add sl.po from
http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
+ fix timeouts from 2011/01/18, which were being interpreted as
milliseconds rather than seconds (report by Luis Moreira).
2011/01/18
+ fix inconsistency in return-codes for textbox when help-button is
used by making dlg_exit_buttoncode() a wrapper for
dlg_ok_buttoncode().
+ modify pause widget to use dlg_ok_buttoncode(), so help-button works.
+ correct two infobox sample scripts, which did not pass extra
command-line parameters due to quoting problems.
+ add a limit-check to the timebox widget (patch by Garrett Cooper).
+ modify --trace option to also trace the command-line parameters.
+ account for combining characters when wrapping text (Debian #570634).
+ correct handling of SIGWINCH in gauge widget (Debian #305705).
+ add gauge_color, to make guage's progress-bar distinct from
title_color (request by Dominic Derdau).
+ update fi.po from
http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
as well as resync line-numbers in the other po-files.
+ modify configure script and dialog program to build with NetBSD's
wide-character curses functions, including workarounds for its
incorrect WACS_xxx definitions. Some of the UTF-8 examples work.
+ add back-tab for traversal of tailboxbg widgets, for symmetry with
tab-traversal.
+ reduce flicker in tailboxbg by checking if the input file size has
changed.
+ modify internals of callbacks to avoid blocking reads of their
associated files by keyboard input.
+ add command-line option --no-mouse, to suppress use of mouse.
+ add configure option --enable-header-subdir to allow the header files
to be installed into a subdirectory named for the package.
+ modify dlg_restore_vars() to retain the updated values of
input_result and input_length, eliminating the need for a caller to
provide their own user buffer (prompted by report by Thiago Bimbatti
Felicio).
+ add a null-pointer check in show_result() for
dialog_vars.input_result, and ensure it is set to null after freeing
(prompted by report by Thiago Bimbatti Felicio).
+ change order of -I options in CPPFLAGS (report by Michel Feldheim)
+ modify pause-widget so that it no longer exits when an unrecognized
key is pressed (patch by Creidieki M Crouch).
+ add --with-package option to configure script to allow renaming
of the dialog program and library, to support the package scripts.
+ add Debian and RPM package scripts for test-builds.
+ several improvements to configure script:
+ quote params of ifelse()
+ change obsolete ${name-value} to standard ${name:-value}
+ use new macros CF_ADD_LIB/CF_ADD_LIBS to enforce consistency.
+ AM_GNU_GETTEXT, drop $MKINSTALLDIRS, use "mkdir -p" consistently.
+ CF_ADD_SUBDIR_PATH, workaround - if $prefix was not mkdir'd yet, no
directories were added.
+ CF_BUNDLED_INTL, add --with-textdomain option, to use with lynx-dev
package
+ CF_FIND_LINKAGE, simplify save/restore of $LIBS
+ CF_GCC_WARNINGS, fix for Mac OS X (compiler makes conftest.dSYM
directory)
+ CF_HEADER_PATH, don't search for variations of everything in the
current include-path
+ CF_WITH_CURSES_DIR, move the calls to CF_ADD_INCDIR and
CF_ADD_LIBDIR for the curses-directory here, from
CF_NCURSES_CPPFLAGS and CF_NCURSES_LDFLAGS, so it will work even
with the default checking, e.g., no --with-ncurses, etc.
+ updated config.guess, config.sub
2010/04/28
+ several improvements to configure script:
+ modify CF_CURSES_TERM_H to handle cases such as cygwin where
packager has installed curses.h and term.h in different
directories, e.g., to wedge in a termcap library.
+ modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, adding special case for OpenSolaris
+ modify CF_MAKE_TAGS to add check for exctags and exetags, prefer to
ctags and etags to work around pkgsrc (NetBSD) renaming.
+ correct CF_FIND_LINKAGE, setting cache variable for library_file in
the special case where no directory search is made.
+ improve CF_GCC_VERSION, suppress stderr for c89 alias of gcc.
+ improve CF_GCC_WARNINGS, moving -W and -Wall into the list to
check, since c89 alias for gcc complains about these options.
+ modify CF_HEADER_PATH, to not search for variations of everything
in the current include-path
+ use "mkdir -p", remove mkdirs.sh
+ use CF_CURSES_HEADER to fill in possible subdirectory used for
ncurses header filename.
+ modify CF_XOPEN_CURSES to work around current ncurse header loss of
predefinition of _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
+ add "--disable-rpath-hack" option, along with scripting to add
rpath option to libraries found in unusual places.
+ modify pause widget to autosize like gauge, and to omit the area for
buttons when none are displayed.
+ fix an infinite loop in dlg_button_layout() if there are no buttons
to display (Debian #579390).
+ add makefile rules for generating html, etc., documentation from
nroff.
> patches by Samuel Mart
+ reset errors in tailbox before reading new character.
+ modify dlg_draw_scrollbar(), omitting hiding percentages in boxes
when no arrows or scrollbar are needed.
+ correct value of row for scrollbars in formbox.
+ update es.po from
http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
2010/01/19
+ split up binding tables in inputbox and similar widgets to avoid
conflict between cursor-key use for input-string versus navigation
(report by slakmagik).
+ if strftime() is available, support --time-format option for timebox
widget.
+ if strftime() is available, support --date-format option for calendar
widget (request by Walter Harms).
+ build-fixes for linking to intl library in /usr/local
+ add --scrollbar option, use in most widgets to show a scrollbar on
the right margin of the data. That is cosmetic, does not respond to
the mouse.
+ reuse functions from msgbox to allow prompt for yesno box to be
scrolled in a too-small window.
+ correct mapping of button-codes with --nook option (report by Lebedev
Vadim).
+ cleanup sample scripts using new utility scripts setup-* and report-*,
and allow command-line parameters to be added, for ad hoc testing.
+ correct change to tailbox widget from 2009/02/22 using
dlg_button_layout(), which broke that widget.
+ document some of the portability caveats.
+ modify gauge widget to service callbacks (prompted by patch and
comments by Frank Sorenson).
+ modify editbox to allow its input buffer to be larger than MAX_LEN
unless bounded by the --max-input option, and add limit-checks for
the buffer (report by slakmagik).
+ improve manpage description of --checklist (report by Isaac Good).
+ several improvements to configure script macros: CF_ADD_CFLAGS
CF_CURSES_FUNCS CF_DISABLE_ECHO CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES CF_MATH_LIB
CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE CF_REMOVE_DEFINE CF_WITH_LIBTOOL CF_XOPEN_SOURCE
+ add is.po, lv.po, sw.po from
http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
+ update de.po, id.po, pl.po, pt_BR.po, vi.po from
http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
2009/02/22
+ do not display top-arrows for scrolling if they would overwrite the
title (report by slakmagik)
+ consistently use dlg_button_layout() when autosizing widgets (report
by slakmagik).
+ add "-" and "+" bindings to timebox widget.
+ add "-" and "+" bindings to calendar widget (OpenSolaris #6739031).
+ review/fix other widgets to ensure that they exit on error, e.g.,
editbox.c
+ modify check in dlg_getc() to treat closure of either stdin or stdout
as an error, rather than both. This is more stringent than the check
added in 2007/07/04.
+ modify dlg_result_key() to map curses ERR to dialog's error exit
(adapted from patch by Domagoj Pensa).
+ updated several configure script macros:
+ consistently append, rather then prepend, to $CFLAGS
+ add cases for AIX 6, mint, and dragonfly to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE
+ use $PATH_SEPARATOR rather than $PATHSEP
+ improve CF_FIND_LINKAGE, use in checks for more libraries, e.g.,
libutf8 and libiconv.
+ update da.po, ru.po from
http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
+ updated config.guess, config.sub
This changes the buildlink3.mk files to use an include guard for the
recursive include. The use of BUILDLINK_DEPTH, BUILDLINK_DEPENDS,
BUILDLINK_PACKAGES and BUILDLINK_ORDER is handled by a single new
variable BUILDLINK_TREE. Each buildlink3.mk file adds a pair of
enter/exit marker, which can be used to reconstruct the tree and
to determine first level includes. Avoiding := for large variables
(BUILDLINK_ORDER) speeds up parse time as += has linear complexity.
The include guard reduces system time by avoiding reading files over and
over again. For complex packages this reduces both %user and %sys time to
half of the former time.
2008/08/19
+ amend changes to quoting; by default, the checklist widget quotes its
output except when --separate-output is used (Debian #495600).
+ add eo.po from
http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
2008/07/27
+ add pointer-check when closing piped input (cf: 2007/03/25)
+ use here-documents rather than echo, when passing backslashes in
strings, to accommodate the Debian shell "dash" (Debian #489563).
+ recode several ".po" files to UTF-8 for consistency.
+ change --separator to be an alias for --output-separator, for
compatibility with Xdialog.
+ add --output-separator option to allow scripts to change the output
separator from a newline (for --separate-output) or a space. This
applies to other widgets such as forms and editboxes which normally
use a newline.
+ add --column-separator option, to tell where column-aligned data for
radio/checkboxes or menus should be split into columns (request by
Ben Dibbens).
+ add id.po, ku.po, lt.po, nb.po and update ca.po, fr.po, gl.po, ja.po,
th.po from
http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
+ add "--quoted" option, to quote values returned by formbox, etc.
+ change names of EX/ES macros in dialog.1 to work around name-
pollution caused by changes in Debian #470729.
2008/03/16
+ modify dlg_mouse_wgetch() to loop only on errors that it detects,
rather than on errors forwarded from dlg_getc(), in case those are
due to a disconnected terminal (report by Anatoli Sakhnik).
+ allow "default" color in dialogrc file (request by Dashing).
+ fix an indexing error in formbox (Debian #469190, report by Dmitry
Gomerman, patch by Vladimir Mezentsev).
+ add bindings for CTL/N, CTL/P to checklist, fselect and menubox
widgets (prompted by discussion with John Gatewood Ham).
+ add be@latin.po, th.po and update zh_TW.po from
http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
> patches by Peter Astrand:
+ modify dlg_auto_sizefile() to ensure the computed height and width
do not extend beyond the screen size.
+ use unctrl() to make inputstr.c work with Solaris curses.
> patches by Yura Kalinichenko:
+ extend pause widget to use ok/cancel buttons (the former giving the
same result as a timeout), rather than an exit-button.
+ fix initialization parameter of inputbox for multibyte characters.
2007/10/28
+ improve layout of checklist.c, menubox.c, ensuring that the list fits
within the available space (report by Gordon Schumacher).
+ undo removal of redundant chunk from checklist.c in 2007/02/27,
since some scripts depend on this (Debian #443077).
+ update nl.po from
http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
2007/09/30
+ correct cursor position in editbox after deleting past left margin
(report by Joe McDonagh).
+ add "--no-ok" option (patch by Klaus Knopper).
+ modify "--file" option to allow it to read from sources other than
a regular file (patch by Pieter van Beek).
+ improved hi.po (Hindi) (from Klaus Knopper).
+ fix masking of attributes in dlg_draw_shadow() which lost
line-drawing bit (report by David Everly).
+ fix editbox widget to handle zero-length files (report by Joe
McDonagh).
+ update "po" files eu.po ga.po it.po ms.po sv.po vi.po wa.po zh_CN.po
from
http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
2007/07/04
+ revise the resizable shadows so textbox's search dialog has text
visible in the shadow again.
+ improve the prefixing of autoconf-related symbols in the installed
header files, taking into account symbols which are not mentioned in
dlg_config.h
+ add a check when ERR returned from wgetch() to ensure that the
input/output streams are still valid. If that happens, force
ESC to be returned, quitting dialog (report by Reiner Huober).
+ add extern "C" declarations to dlg_keys.h so the corresponding
function declarations are exported to C++ as C symbols.
+ updated config.guess, config.sub
2007/06/04
+ fix a memory leak in editbox.c
+ revise change from 2007/02/27 which moved the logic for trimming
option text out of the loop because that moved it before
initialization of the "--trim" option. Put it back in the loop, but
limit the tokens which are trimmed to cover only those for the
current widget. Also ensure that all tokens for a widget are
trimmed, rather than only the first, which is usually text (report by
Lai Zit Seng).
+ add _FILE_OFFSET_BITS definition in CF_LARGEFILE configure macro.
2007/05/28
+ revise changes needed to make textbox's searchbox handle ncurses
resizing events, e.g., by handling the ERR in that code rather than
in dlg_getc() (Debian #423732).
2007/05/14
+ supply a repaint_text() call in tailbox.c which was bypassed because
dlg_getc() now retries on ERR (Debian #423732, cf: 2007/02/27).
+ modify dlg_getc() to fix regression for use of timeouts, broken by
fixes to allow resizing of textbox (patch by Arnaud Fontaine, Debian
#418905, cf: 2007/02/27).
+ modify dlg_getc() to fix regression in use of TAB for traversal of
tailboxbg widgets due to changes for user-definable key bindings
(Debian #418917, cf: 2005/12/07).
2007/04/09
+ add case in dlg_getc() to handle tab for traversing between widgets
as in the samples/tailboxbg1 script. Normally the key binding
overrides, except for the special case where multiple widgets are
available.
+ add configure --with-libtool-opts, which passes its value to the
library creation and linkage passes, e.g.,
--with-libtool-opts=-static
to force the result to be static libraries (prompted by a related
request by Santiago Vila).
> several fixes based on Coverity scan:
+ fix memory leak in timebox, calendar widgets if the widget cannot
be created.
+ fix memory leak in dlg_key.c if a user binding's storage cannot
be allocated.
+ fix improperly delinked entry in dlg_del_window().
2007/03/25
+ improve mkdirs.sh to ignore error from mkdir if the target directory
happens to already exist (suggested by Harald van Dijk).
+ amend documentation for --gauge to reflect longstanding quirk which
allows it to read percentage from the first line after an "XXX"
(Debian #415596).
+ fix makefile dependency so "configure && make install-lib" works.
+ fix resizing of msgbox; the message was not repainted (Debian
#415022, patch by Brian Rolfe).
+ fix typo in makefile LIB_OBJECT symbol from 2007/02/27 changes.
+ improve CF_MBSTATE_T by including stdio.h, needed on Tru64 to make
the test-compile work.
+ change makefile to install dialog.3 as part of install-lib rather
than install-man (report by Thomas Klausner).
+ use $(INSTALL_SCRIPT) for installing dialog-config (report by
Santiago Vila).
2007/02/27
+ add dialog-config script, which provides applications with compile-
and link-information for using the dialog library.
[pkgsrc: not installed, since library is not installed]
+ move calls to dlg_trim_string() out of loop in dialog.c, so each
string is trimmed once (report by Ivanov Makcim).
+ modify textbox.c to allow resizing while the search box is presented.
This relies on bug-fix in ncurses 5.6 20070224.
+ use dgettext() rather than gettext() to allow libdialog to use the
messages installed for dialog (patch by Vajna Miklos).
+ modify inputbox to position the cursor initially at the end of any
initial-text (request by Klaus Knopper).
+ add configure --with-valgrind for testing.
+ add --trace option, for debugging.
+ add --ascii-lines and --no-lines options to control the way the
line-drawing characters are rendered (request by Klaus Knopper).
+ add --keep-tite option, to override suppression of smcup/rmcup
(termcap ti/te) strings which would switch to xterm's alternate
screen (Debian #380665).
+ modify fselect/dselect to use space-character as a completion
operator like tab in shells (patch by Yoram Bar Haim).
+ remove a redundant chunk from checklist.c which reported status a
second time if the help-button was pressed but no item-help option
was in effect (Andre C Barros).
+ fix return-status from "dialog --pause" (Debian #409254).
+ add --mixedform and --mixedgauge dialogs based on patch from
Kiran Cherupally.
+ add some notes on compatibility to the manpage.
+ add editbox dialog (compatible with Xdialog, Debian #368478).
+ add dselect dialog (compatible with Xdialog).
+ remove an incorrect initialization of .text_flen from 2005/12/07
changes, which made all fields in a form editable (Debian #404045).
+ report error and exit if a filename given for the --file option
cannot be opened (report by "Dog Walker").
+ make --program-prefix, etc., work in configure script, e.g., to make
program install as "cdialog". This does not alter the library name.
+ add install-bin, install-man (and uninstall) rules to makefile.
+ updates for configure script macros (originally vile, lynx, xterm):
AM_PATH_PROG_WITH_TEST, AM_WITH_NLS, CF_CURSES_CPPFLAGS,
CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_INCLUDE_DIRS, CF_LARGEFILE, CF_MAKEFLAGS,
CF_PATH_SYNTAX, CF_SUBDIR_PATH, CF_SUBST, CF_WITH_DBMALLOC,
CF_WITH_DMALLOC, CF_WITH_LIBTOOL and CF_XOPEN_SOURCE.
+ updated config.guess, config.sub
> adapted fixes from SuSE package (Werner Fink):
+ add some limit-checks in dlg_draw_shadow().
+ make shadows resizable, using new dlg_move_window() in msgbox.c
and yesno.c
+ add dialog_state.input, use this in end_dialog() to decide whether
to close pipe inputs and call _exit(), or simply call exit().
+ modify dlg_ctl_size() to check if the reason for failure is because
shadows were used; retry in that case without shadows.
+ add signal catcher for SIGSEGV.
developer is officially maintaining the package.
The rationale for changing this from "tech-pkg" to "pkgsrc-users" is
that it implies that any user can try to maintain the package (by
submitting patches to the mailing list). Since the folks most likely
to care about the package are the folks that want to use it or are
already using it, this would leverage the energy of users who aren't
developers.
2006/01/26
+ fix fselect.c to compile properly with Intel compiler and largefile
option.
+ improve configure script checks for curses headers to work around
breakage in some packages, e.g., cygwin.
+ amend correction to menubox, fixes normal menus (Debian #349969).
2006/01/19
+ completed dialog.3 manpage
+ modify configure script option --with-gauge to cover all flavors of
the gauge (gauge, pause, progressbox).
+ add progressbox widget, a hybrid of gauge and tailbox (Reznic Valery).
+ fix a comparison in checklist.c to avoid unneeded arrows when the
list happens to fit in the window (patch by Peter Postma).
+ correct wrapping computation in print_line() from 2005/11/07 changes
(report by Barry Kauler).
+ update sv.po (comments only).
http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/maint/dialog/
+ correct logic that passes the callback for menubox to do inputmenu
operations from 2005/12/7 changes (report by Reznic Valery).
2006/01/01
+ add a null-pointer check in dlg_register_buttons(), needed for the
tailboxbg (Debian #345524).
+ fix a few memory leaks reported by valgrind.
2005/12/19
+ correct return-values of new functions dlg_default_listitem() and
dlg_default_formitem() (Debian #344002).
+ add Swedish translation (Debian #343303, by Daniel Nylander)
+ begin function-summaries in dialog.3
+ update config.guess, config.sub
2005/12/07
+ change license to LGPL.
+ change naming convention in dlg_colors.h to make it easier to read,
and incidentally remove the last chunk of code preventing relicense.
+ add --passwordform (request by Reznic Valery).
+ modify pause.c, msgbox.c to work with --help-button.
+ modify formbox.c, inputbox.c, textbox.c, yesno.c to work with extra
button (adapted from Reznic Valery patch).
+ modify dlg_exit_label(), dlg_yes_labels() and dlg_ok_label() to allow
help-button (prompted by Reznic Valery patch).
+ add zh_CN.po file from
http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/maint/dialog/
+ provide alternate interfaces for dialog_checklist(), dialog_menu()
and dialog_form(): dlg_checklist(), dlg_menu() and dlg_form()
(discussion with Michael Gebetsroither).
+ add/use dlg_result_key() to allow binding function keys to the
buttons.
+ implement user-definable key bindings in the rc-file.
+ modify inline cases for KEY_xxx values to use binding tables in new
module dlg_keys.c
+ add several DIALOG_STATE items to the rc file: aspect,
separate_widget, tab_len and visit_links
+ add a tab-adjustment to dlg_print_text() to improve solution from
2005/10/30, e.g., in the samples/form* scripts.
+ fix an off-by-one which made mouse-selection not work for menu items
past the first page (GenToo #112024, patch by Harald van Dijk).
2005/11/07
+ extend dlg_add_result() to allow caller to pass a null pointer
for dialog_vars.input_result (Debian #336986).
+ correct length used for text portion of radio/checkboxes (report by
Valentin Stoykov).
+ modify msgbox, textbox and center_label() to work properly for
LANG=bg_BG.utf8 examples by Valentin Stoykov.
+ modify use of freopen() to work with opaque FILE type on DragonFly
(report by Jeremy C Reed).
+ modify print_line() to compute columns, use that for the call to
dlg_print_line(). Fix a few places where strlen() was used instead
of dlg_count_columns() (reports by Valentin Stoykov).
2005/10/30
+ reviewed changes since beginning development in 1999, decided that
there are no appreciable portions of original code remaining.
Marked sources to correspond.
+ improve cache performance for inputstr.c using tsearch() rather than
a linked-list search (Debian #294853).
+ remove a special case for darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
+ add ms.po file from
http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/maint/dialog/
+ remove an assignment that caused the cursor to appear initially on a
form field rather than button (Debian #333506).
+ modify buttons.c to count columns rather than bytes, fixing case
where buttons were laid out incorrectly (report by Valentin Stoykov).
+ change dlg_print_text() to count columns rather than bytes, fixing
case where fewer columns were displayed in menu than expected
(report by Valentin Stoykov).
2005/10/05
+ improve fix for dlg_does_output(), eliminating redundant leading
separator.
+ fill background color for item-help text (report by Peter Postma).
+ correct interaction between --separate-output and --output-separator
broken in 2005/09/11 fix for Debian #326918 (Debian #331440).
+ update config.guess, config.sub
in the process. (More information on tech-pkg.)
Bump PKGREVISION and BUILDLINK_DEPENDS of all packages using libtool and
installing .la files.
Bump PKGREVISION (only) of all packages depending directly on the above
via a buildlink3 include.
it further to not even build it, and just link the objects in directly,
to save us from having to drag in libtool so the library gets ranlibbed
properly on darwin. PR 20487
curses.buildlink2.mk. This was wrong because we _really_ do want to
express that we want _n_curses when we include the buildlink2.mk file.
We should have a better way to say that the NetBSD curses doesn't
quite work well enough. In fact, it's far better to depend on ncurses
by default, and exceptionally note when it's okay to use NetBSD curses
for specific packages. We will look into this again in the future.
