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Re: dialog in SuSE 10.0


From: Sterling Surveys Ltd
Subject: Re: dialog in SuSE 10.0
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:22:56 +0000
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Ok, now I see how to solve my problem.

Download the latest source, compile it and hey presto!.

It works just fine.

That leaves the question of why are SuSE are shipping routines that are not the latest version .

Many thanks for your help.


In message <address@hidden>, Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> writes
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Sterling Surveys Ltd wrote:

This is the dialog -version from SuSE 10.0

cdialog (ComeOn Dialog!) version 0.9b-20040316
Copyright (C) 2004 Thomas E. Dickey


This is the dialog -version from SuSE 9.0

cdialog (ComeOn Dialog!) version 0.9b-20020814

Looking at the changelog

http://invisible-island.net/dialog/CHANGES

I probably fixed that in

2004/09/20
      + corrected logic of dlg_char_to_button(), making it check only the
        first uppercase letter in each button label rather than all uppercase
        letters (report by Erika Pacholleck, cf: 2003/09/10).

The "cf" refers to a change which broke that feature:

2003/09/10
      + modify button, menu and checklist logic that matches a character to
        the beginning of a text field to support wide-characters (completes
        Debian #195674).



In message <address@hidden>, Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> writes
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Sterling Surveys Ltd wrote:

It seems that the dialog routine does not work correctly in SuSE 10.0
 what does
      dialog --version
say?

The key presses in a menu dialog do not select the appropriate entry. Only by traversing up and down with the arrows are you able to select the entry. Is this because of the change from ncurses 5.3 (SuSE 9.0 ) to 5.4 (SuSE 10.0)
 no - it's more likely that you're seeing a bug (I seem to recall
some case where abbreviations did not work properly in the multibyte
case - don't recall what version that was).
However, looking at SuSE's rpm for dialog, I see other problems with
it (10.2's spec lists an obsolete email for me - by 6 years, lists
an incorrect license, does not distinguish between people who have edited the spec file versus the program itself, etc). This is the second email that I've responded to this morning pointing
out defects in SuSE's packages...


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