Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:58:19 -0400 From: Wesley Shields <wxs@FreeBSD.org> To: Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: There is no way to know what port options mean (in general) Message-ID: <20080327195819.GB56935@atarininja.org> In-Reply-To: <1206541372.78560.60.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz> References: <20080326053328.GA29448@duncan.reilly.home> <20080326093858.GA78756@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <20080326133611.GD23226@atarininja.org> <20080326141048.M53995@FreeBSD.org> <20080326141829.GE23226@atarininja.org> <1206541372.78560.60.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz>
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On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 03:22:52PM +0100, Pav Lucistnik wrote: > Wesley Shields p??e v st 26. 03. 2008 v 10:18 -0400: > > > Sounds to me like you are thinking of including the description in the > > dialog. This sounds like a good idea to me and is something I can look > > into doing instead of my proposal. > > Yes, that was my thought, it must be easily visible in the "blue > screen", otherwise it will not be seen, most of the time. > > Something which would add a three line textbox below the dialog window, > listing a long description for the item currently under the cursor. > > I can see it already! :) Can you code it? As a first pass I've got an almost working skeleton which uses --hfile and pulls the descriptions from OPTIONS variable (using a 4th field). It also adds --hline "Please use ? for a detailed description" to the dialog call. I need to clean it up and make it handle the case where the 4th field is not there. I'm going on a mini-vacation in an hour but will hopefully finish it up early next week. It's not quite what you were expecting but I'm not sure how to make dialog show two windows at once - admittedly I have not looked too hard at that. I'll post a final patch when I have it ready. -- WXS
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