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Date:      Wed, 9 Feb 2011 16:58:39 -0500
From:      Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net>
To:        David Boyd <David.Boyd@insightbb.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: new dialog/libdialog testing
Message-ID:  <20110209215839.GA16262@saltmine.radix.net>
In-Reply-To: <OJEBKOFDEOADELCOBJCGEEFHDKAA.David.Boyd@insightbb.com>
References:  <OJEBKOFDEOADELCOBJCGEEFHDKAA.David.Boyd@insightbb.com>

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On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 10:28:53AM -0500, David Boyd wrote:
> Having some time to test 9.0-CURRENT with the new dialog command has
> uncovered only one major omission (for us): prgbox/dialog_prgbox.
>=20
> This is used in most (if not all) of our installation/management scripts.
>=20
> Was prgbox omitted for any particular reason?
>=20
> I realize that change is inevitable.
>=20
> Is there a better approach to running a program in a window?
>=20
> We like many of the new features presented, but are wary of problems down
> the road due to the omission of prgrbox.
>=20
> I notice that sysinstall uses dialog_prgbox in 8.1-RELEASE.

I've had that widget (and a few others - tree and build-list)
on my to-do list for a while, but don't recall noticing that
the unimplemented ones were used much.

--=20
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net

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