Re: new dialog/libdialog testing

From: Thomas Dickey <dickey_at_radix.net>
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 16:58:39 -0500
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.
> 
> This is used in most (if not all) of our installation/management scripts.
> 
> Was prgbox omitted for any particular reason?
> 
> I realize that change is inevitable.
> 
> Is there a better approach to running a program in a window?
> 
> We like many of the new features presented, but are wary of problems down
> the road due to the omission of prgrbox.
> 
> 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.

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Thomas E. Dickey
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