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Date:      Mon, 7 Oct 2002 17:47:43 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Adam Weinberger <adam@vectors.cx>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Updated dialog-based config patches
Message-ID:  <20021008004743.GA32604@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021008003309.GD81796@vectors.cx>
References:  <20020930062804.GA50001@xor.obsecurity.org> <20021006202120.GA96047@xor.obsecurity.org> <20021008003309.GD81796@vectors.cx>

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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

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