Re: dialogwrapper in ports
On Wed, 5 Sep 2012, Thomas Mueller wrote: Configure port options as usual. It should look and work the same as usual, but handle long descriptions and bigger windows as described above. Brian Drewery responded: I've set this in my make.conf and tried it out. It's really cool. Would be nice to see this get more testing and possibly be set as default. Bryan This whets my virtual appetite, I'd like to try. But does this avoid the problem of getting messed up with the dialog when generating a log file with script or make install clean | & tee build.log ? Probably not. I'm not sure if either dialog or dialogwrapper can do anything about what goes into a teed file. I noticed on http://www.freshports.org/commits.php just a day ago, devel/cdialog and x11/xdialog. Maybe xdialog avoids this messing up when generating a log file, but can only be used after xorg is built and installed. Either of these may be better than the dialog(1) in base. But one of the goals of dialogwrapper was to not need anything extra that would have to be installed from ports. ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: dialogwrapper in ports
On 9/4/2012 12:41 PM, Warren Block wrote: > dialogwrapper has now been committed to Tools/scripts in /usr/ports. > Further testing is requested. > What is dialogwrapper? > dialogwrapper is a wrapper script for dialog(1) that works around some > bugs and takes advantage of new features to make ports options setting > easier and better. > On FreeBSD 9 and later, two major features are available: > 1. Extended descriptions. If a description won't fit in the space >available, a "+" is shown at the far right and the remainder is shown >at the bottom of the screen. The easiest way to test this is to pick >a port, edit one of the option descriptions to be very long, then run >'make config'. Hopefully this will eventually allow port maintainers >to use longer and more meaningful descriptions. > 2. Variable menu size. Options screens in windows larger than 80x24 >show wider descriptions and more lines. Convenient example: with a >tall window, do 'make config' in print/ghostscript9. > On FreeBSD 8, dialog(1) does not have a needed feature, so extended > descriptions are merely chopped off. This also helps to avoid a bug in > the older version's display of descriptions that are too long. > How do I use dialogwrapper? > Update your copy of the ports tree, then add this line to /etc/make.conf : > DIALOG="/usr/ports/Tools/scripts/dialogwrapper.sh" > Configure port options as usual. It should look and work the same as > usual, but handle long descriptions and bigger windows as described above. Brian Drewery responded: > I've set this in my make.conf and tried it out. It's really cool. > Would be nice to see this get more testing and possibly be set as default. > Bryan This whets my virtual appetite, I'd like to try. But does this avoid the problem of getting messed up with the dialog when generating a log file with script or make install clean | & tee build.log ? I noticed on http://www.freshports.org/commits.php just a day ago, devel/cdialog and x11/xdialog. Maybe xdialog avoids this messing up when generating a log file, but can only be used after xorg is built and installed. Tom ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: dialogwrapper in ports
On 9/4/2012 12:41 PM, Warren Block wrote: > dialogwrapper has now been committed to Tools/scripts in /usr/ports. > Further testing is requested. > > > What is dialogwrapper? > > dialogwrapper is a wrapper script for dialog(1) that works around some > bugs and takes advantage of new features to make ports options setting > easier and better. > > On FreeBSD 9 and later, two major features are available: > > 1. Extended descriptions. If a description won't fit in the space >available, a "+" is shown at the far right and the remainder is shown >at the bottom of the screen. The easiest way to test this is to pick >a port, edit one of the option descriptions to be very long, then run >'make config'. Hopefully this will eventually allow port maintainers >to use longer and more meaningful descriptions. > > 2. Variable menu size. Options screens in windows larger than 80x24 >show wider descriptions and more lines. Convenient example: with a >tall window, do 'make config' in print/ghostscript9. > > On FreeBSD 8, dialog(1) does not have a needed feature, so extended > descriptions are merely chopped off. This also helps to avoid a bug in > the older version's display of descriptions that are too long. > > > How do I use dialogwrapper? > > Update your copy of the ports tree, then add this line to /etc/make.conf : > > DIALOG="/usr/ports/Tools/scripts/dialogwrapper.sh" > > Configure port options as usual. It should look and work the same as > usual, but handle long descriptions and bigger windows as described above. I've set this in my make.conf and tried it out. It's really cool. Would be nice to see this get more testing and possibly be set as default. Bryan ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
dialogwrapper in ports
dialogwrapper has now been committed to Tools/scripts in /usr/ports. Further testing is requested. What is dialogwrapper? dialogwrapper is a wrapper script for dialog(1) that works around some bugs and takes advantage of new features to make ports options setting easier and better. On FreeBSD 9 and later, two major features are available: 1. Extended descriptions. If a description won't fit in the space available, a "+" is shown at the far right and the remainder is shown at the bottom of the screen. The easiest way to test this is to pick a port, edit one of the option descriptions to be very long, then run 'make config'. Hopefully this will eventually allow port maintainers to use longer and more meaningful descriptions. 2. Variable menu size. Options screens in windows larger than 80x24 show wider descriptions and more lines. Convenient example: with a tall window, do 'make config' in print/ghostscript9. On FreeBSD 8, dialog(1) does not have a needed feature, so extended descriptions are merely chopped off. This also helps to avoid a bug in the older version's display of descriptions that are too long. How do I use dialogwrapper? Update your copy of the ports tree, then add this line to /etc/make.conf : DIALOG="/usr/ports/Tools/scripts/dialogwrapper.sh" Configure port options as usual. It should look and work the same as usual, but handle long descriptions and bigger windows as described above. ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
