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From: | Thomas Dickey |
Subject: | Re: dialog in SuSE 10.0 |
Date: | Thu, 25 Jan 2007 11:52:10 -0500 (EST) |
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Sterling Surveys Ltd wrote:
Ok, now I see how to solve my problem. Download the latest source, compile it and hey presto!. It works just fine.
good (report bugs).
That leaves the question of why are SuSE are shipping routines that are not the latest version .
Several reasons (not all good). The good ones: a) it takes a while to put together a full distribution and isolate bugs that occur when mixing different applications b) there are a lot of packages Some bad ones (first-hand experience ;-): a) uncooperative packagers (various political issues) b) problems resulting from other packages' new versions being incompatible with older ones.
Many thanks for your help.
no problem
In message <address@hidden>, Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> writesOn 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-20020814Looking 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 thefirst uppercase letter in each button label rather than all uppercaseletters (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> writesOn Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Sterling Surveys Ltd wrote:It seems that the dialog routine does not work correctly in SuSE 10.0what 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, listsan 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...-- Sterling Surveys Ltd-- Sterling Surveys Ltd
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