From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Oct 7 17:47:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 869CB37B401 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 17:47:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-165-226-88.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.165.226.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF46843E88 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 17:47:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1156466C7B; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 17:47:44 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 17:47:43 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Adam Weinberger , Kris Kennaway , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Updated dialog-based config patches Message-ID: <20021008004743.GA32604@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20020930062804.GA50001@xor.obsecurity.org> <20021006202120.GA96047@xor.obsecurity.org> <20021008003309.GD81796@vectors.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="C7zPtVaVf+AK4Oqc" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021008003309.GD81796@vectors.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --C7zPtVaVf+AK4Oqc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 05:33:10PM -0700, Adam Weinberger wrote: > what should happen for ports with long options descriptions? options > wherein there is something important the user must know about enabling > that option. once the description for an option gets long, dialog borks > and starts clipping text and buttons. Perhaps add in a "(see Makefile)" or "(see 'make confighelp')" or similar for those cases. Unfortunately dialog is too limited to support multi-line checkbox descriptions. > also, it would be nice to have some of the following line: > ${SH} -c "${DIALOG} --checklist \"Options for ${PORTNAME} ${PORTVERSION}\= " 21 70 15 $${DEFOPTIONS} 2> $${TMPOPTIONSFILE}"; > put into a variable, like OPTIONS_FMT or somesuch. that way, if you > choose to define DIALOG as, for example, xdialog, you can pass different > sizing parameters. Do you mean the following? OPTIONS_FMT?=3D--checklist \"Options for ${PORTNAME} ${PORTVERSION}\" 21 70= 15=20 Thanks for the feedback. Kris --C7zPtVaVf+AK4Oqc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9oisvWry0BWjoQKURAhj9AKDRaBZiHmR1JtT3Wi7Is7tFztXrNQCfSBHK fxPtuWJrEtFFlriJ+dV7OCI= =7Q6F -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --C7zPtVaVf+AK4Oqc-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message