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# Xdialog documentation - ChangeLog

    18/08/06
            v2.3.1  - Fixed the bug, introduced in v2.3.0, where the "Hide typing"
                      check button always appeared in the input boxes, regardless
                      of the existence of a password field.

    13/08/06
            v2.3.0  - Added a new --password=1|2 syntax to allow a password field
                      in one of the first fields of --2inputsbox and --3inputsbox.
                    - Added optional <red> <green> <blue> parameters for the
                      --colorsel widget.
                    - Corrected a bug in the --treeview widget which was failing to
                      properly build a tree when decreasing the level of an item by
                      more than 1, compared to the level of the previous item.
                    - Corrected a bug in the --colorsel widget which triggered a
                      GTK warning when the --icon option was used.
                    - Adapted a patch from Jean-Philippe Guillemin for the GTK2
                      version of Xdialog (this version is still seriously broken:
                      DO NOT use it in production projects), implementing the use
                      of the GTK2 stock icons for the Xdialog buttons.

    06/05/06
            v2.2.1  - Corrected the bug in the --dselect widget which was
                      returning a filename by default, instead of the directory
                      name. Also removed the file specific fields and buttons from
                      the directory selector.
                    - Corrected a typo in the man page.

    26/01/06
            v2.2.0	- Added preliminary GTK2 support (adapted from a patch by
                      Andrew Van Uitert). Run 'configure' with the --with-gtk2
                      option to enable the compilation against GTK2.
                      !!!! BEWARE !!!!  This should be considered alpha-code,
                      and the GTK2 version of Xdialog does not yet implement
                      everything the GTK1 version got. It also got many problems
                      when running on non-UTF8 systems... For -SERIOUS- use, use
                      the GTK+ v1.2.10 version of Xdialog !
                    - Added the --timeout option for compatibility with cdialog
                      (requested by Michelle Konzack).
                    - Partly successful attempt at fixing a problem with some
                      patched GTK versions (Mandrake's, for instance) which are
                      reseting the theme each time all windows are closed (thus
                      breaking --rc-file). Still an issue with the fixed fonts of
                      the XDIALOG_HIGH_DIALOG_COMPAT mode, because of another
                      weird patch (rclocal patch): get unpatched version of GTK+
                      v1.2.10. Such a version is available on Xdialog's website.
                    - The default fixed font is now:
                      "-*-*-medium-r-normal-*-*-*-*-*-m-70-*-*"
                      (removed the iso8859-1 specification).
                    - Implemented a custom log message handler to prevent GTK/GDK/
                      GLIB from using stdout as the message output.
                    - Added XDIALOG_NO_GMSGS environment variable support to forbid
                      (when TRUE) emission of GTK/GDK/GLIB messages on stderr.
                    - Brazillian Protuguese translation updates (courtesy of
                      Ricardo Bertagna).
                    - Upgrade to gettext-0.14.1.

    23/07/04
            v2.1.2	- Added the ESC keyboard shortcut for the CANCEL/NO button.
    	        - Added the Indonesian, Dutch, Polish, Italian, Catalan and
                      Swedish translations.
                    - Changed Xmessage and textbox samples for compatibility with
                      bash-less systems.
                    - Updated for gettext v0.13.1.
                    - Added fixes in the spec file for automake bugs.

    02/04/03
            v2.1.1  - Fixed a bug in --calendar where an improper date (month) was
                      preset when a null parameter was passed.
                    - Applied a patch from Peter Breitenlohner to allow Xdialog to
                      build outside the source tree with VPATH.

    25/03/03
            v2.1.0  - Adapted a patch from Joerg Tretter allowing to pass optional
                      <hours>, <minutes> and <seconds> parameters to the --timebox.
                      Also made the <day>, <month> and <year> parameters of the
                      --calendar optional.
    		- The --infobox and --gauge widgets now use non-blocking read()
    		  calls instead of scanf() ones (adapted from a patch by
    		  Rolland Dudemaine). In case Xdialog would not compile any
    		  more on your system (the new code needs for more BSD4.3 like
    		  functions and some more headers), you can revert to the old
    		  code by using the --with-scanf-calls configure option.
                    - Implemented the new --colorsel (suggestion from Todd Hammer)
                      and --fontsel widgets.
                    - Added an optional <status> parameter to the --check option
                      (following a suggestion from Hélio Cavichiolo Jr.
                    - Fixed a bug which made Xdialog coredump when the first row of
                      a --menubox was set "unselectable" (NULL tag) and when the
                      "OK" button was pressed without selecting another row. Thanks
                      to Markus Riese for reporting this bug.
                    - Fixed the charset for pt_BR.po and hu.po (thanks to Christian
                      Weisgerber for pointing this out).
                    - Applied a patch by "ALT Linux Team" to avoid using a
                      temporary file for printing and using a pipe instead (safer,
                      cleaner). Removed the corresponding "--with-print-tmpfile"
                      option from configure.in. Thanks to Stanislav Ievlev for
                      sending me this patch.
                    - New Makefile.am, doc/Makefile.am and configure.in. The doc
                      files are now built during the 'make all' instead of the
                      'make install' step. It should also fix the problems with
                      the bad paths to the Xdialog doc files appearing in the man
                      page on some systems (based on suggestions made by Peter
                      Breitenlohner).
                    - Changed the URL for Xdialog website in main.c and doc.
                    - Documentation updates.

    11/04/02
    	v2.0.6	- Added the "Hide typing" check button into input boxes when
    		  --password option is in use.
    		- Corrected a bug where "unchecked" was not returned with
    		  --check and --inputbox combination when the enter key was
    		  pressed to close the box (bug reported by Scott Ostrander).
    		- Norvegian translations added (courtessy of Jostein
    		  Christoffer Andersen).

    10/01/02
    	v2.0.5  - Corrected a bug (coredump on inexistant file passed to
    		  tailbox and logbox) introduced in v2.0.4.
    		- Upgraded to gettext v0.10.40.
    		- Removed all references to "RedHat" and "Linux" after
    		  "radiolist" and "checklist" samples scripts --backtitle
    		  options.

    12/12/01
    	v2.0.4 (build 2)
    		- Debian packaging bug fix (missing "gettext" build dependency
    		  added).

    08/12/01
    	v2.0.4  - Improved --tailbox and --logbox loading of files at startup
    		  (based on a patch submitted by Christian Werner, although I
    		  only kept his excellent idea and implemented it my own way).
    		  The --smooth transient option disables this feature for the
    		  --logbox (because if the file is big, it may take quite some
    		  time to load and process, time during which no logbox menu
    		  display update occurs...).
    		- A cosmetic bug corrected into --logbox (the ending newline
    		  is removed from each line; it appeared as a space with a grey
    		  border with XFree86 v4.1.0/GTK+ v1.2.10).
    		- Ensure that "unchecked" is not returned when using the
    		  --check transient option with infobox, gauge and progress
    		  widgets (fool proofing, as the --check option is not for use
    		  with these widgets...).
    		- Better german translations, courtesy of Sven Backhausen.
    		- Brazilian/Portuguese translations, courtesy of Lucas
    		  Brasilino.
    		- Xdialog.wrapper changed so that the XDIALOG_FORCE_AUTOSIZE
    		  environment variable is set to "true" (if not already set
    		  to any value) before invoking Xdialog.
    		- Removed the --statistics option from msgfmt command line in
    		  po/Makefile.in.in so to allow compilation on Solaris (this
    		  may as well solves the compile problems on some Debian
    		  plateforms). Problem reported by "Exile In Paradise".
    		- Removed unnecessary po/*.c and po/*.h from the distribution.
    		- Slightly improved Xdialog.spec.
    		- Documentation updates and improvements (including a more
    		  complete man page).

    12/07/01
    	v2.0.3	- New --ok-label and --cancel-label transient options added.
    		- Hungarian translations added (courtesy of Lenart Janos).
    		- Debianized source tree (courtesy of Lenart Janos).
    		- Doc. updates.

    15/06/01
    	v2.0.2 (build 4)
    		- Spanish translations added (courtesy of Horacio Castellon).
    		- "make distclean" now removes "ltconfig" and "ltmain.sh" that
    		  are put in the directory when building with "rpm" (libtoolize
    		  is always ran by "rpm": it is plain useless here).

    09/06/01
    	v2.0.2 (build 3)
    		- Replaced the "%make" macro with "make" so to allow the RPM
    		  to build on RedHat systems.
    		- Changed doc/Xdialog.man, Makefile.am and Xdialog.spec so that
    		  the proper installation directory names are shown in the
    		  Xdialog man page.

    03/06/01
    	v2.0.2 (build 2)
    		- Make use of the new gettext 0.10.38 (for a better portability
    		  on non-GNU/Linux systems; suggested by Albert Chin-A-Young).
    		- Changed Xdialog.wrapper.c (samples directory) so that before
    		  calling Xdialog, it sets the XDIALOG_HIGH_DIALOG_COMPAT
    		  environment variable to "true" (if this variable is already
    		  set, its contents is not overwritten though, so it is always
    		  possible to set it to "false" if you don't like this
    		  feature).
    		- Doc. updates.

    21/05/01
    	v2.0.2	- A work around implemented for a getopt_long_only() bug that
    		  often made Xdialog v2.0.0/1 to segfault on unknown options.
    		- Two bugs removed from the progress widget (as a result, the
    		  "allrpms" sample script now works properly).
    		- New --smooth transient option added to get a smooth (flicker
    		  free but slow) scrolling in tailbox and logbox widgets.
    		- "kernel" sample script changed to make use of --smooth.
    		- Doc. updates.

    20/05/01
    	v2.0.1 (build 3)
    		- Support for --with-included-gettext configure option added
    		  (patch courtesy of Albert Chin-A-Young).

    19/05/01
    	v2.0.1 (build 2)
    		- Russian translations added (courtesy of Stanislav Ievlev).

    16/05/01
    	v2.0.1	- Small compatibility fixes for compilation on non-linux
    		  platforms (courtesy of Peter Bray).
    		- New --ignore-eof transient option implemented for use with
    		  infobox and gauge widgets.
    		- Doc. updates.

    12/05/01
    	v2.0.0	- Feature: XDIALOG_HIGH_DIALOG_COMPAT environment variable
    		  support added (makes Xdialog even more (c)dialog compatible,
    		  when set to TRUE).
    		  The new XDIALOG_FORCE_AUTOSIZE and XDIALOG_INFOBOX_TIMEOUT
    		  environment variables may also be used IOT customize Xdialog
    		  behaviour when the high (c)dialog compatibilty mode is on.
    		- Feature: new --combobox widget and associated --editable
    		  transient option implemented.
    		- Feature: new --spinbox, --2spinsbox and --3spinsbox widgets
    		  implemented.
    		- Feature: new --logbox widget and associated --time-stamp,
    		  --date-stamp, --reverse and --keep-colors transient options
    		  implemented.
    		- Feature: new --no-ok transient option for use with --tailbox
    		  and --logbox widgets.
    		- Feature: --beep and --beep-after transient options
    		  implemented (cdialog compatible).
    		- Feature: --passwordbox widget (cdialog compatible, synonym to
    		  --password --inputbox) implemented.
    		- Feature: it is now possible to place Xdialog windows at
    		  absolute pixel coordinates on the screen (provided your
    		  window manager lets you do so), by giving the origin into a
    		  "-geometry"-like coordinates specification (e.g.
    		  200x100+120+50), or by using the new --begin transient option
    		  (in characters coordinates).
    		- Feature: it is now possible to maximize Xdialog widgets by
    		  passing a -1 -1 (or -1x-1) size specification.
    		- Feature: the --backtitle, --button-style, --wizard,
    		  --no-cancel, --default-no and --check options are taken into
    		  account by (and may therefore be used with) the fselect
    		  and dselect widgets.
    		- Feature: the textbox and editbox widgets do now auto-size
    		  properly (the length of the text lines and the number of
    		  lines are taken into account).
    		- Feature: the status of --checklist, --radiolist, --buildlist
    		  and --treeview widgets items can now also be set to
    		  "unavailable" so to make items listed but unsensitive. It
    		  is also possible to make a --menubox item unavailable by
    		  associating it with a null (empty string) tag.
    		- Feature: --default-item transient option implemented
    		  (cdialog compatible) for --menubox.
    		- Feature: fake --clear option accepted alone in command line
    		  (it does nothing, it just doesn't complain about a missing
    		  box option), for (c)dialog compatibility
    		- Feature: --cr-wrap (cdialog compatible) and --no-cr-wrap
    		  common options implemented.
    		- Improvement: better (faster) callback function for tailbox.
    		- Improvement: better calculations for box size in characters
    		  (the size of the font actually in use is taken into account
    		  instead of the size of the fixed font).
    		- Improvement: better text wrapping function (the buggy GTK+
    		  built-in one is no more used).
    		- Improvement: Internationalization using gettext. French and
    		  german translations implemented.
    		- Cosmetic: the help button now appears together with the OK/
    		  Cancel/etc buttons into the fselect and dselect widgets.
    		- Cosmetic: Item selection scheme changed for menubox and
    		  treeview (it is no more possible to remove the highligthing
    		  from the last selected item).
    		- Cosmetic: the vertical slider in menubox/checklist/radiolist/
    		  buildlist/treeview is no more mandatory (it is setup automa-
    		  tically by GTK+ when actually needed).
    		- Bugfix: a bug fixed (introduced in v1.5.3), dealing with
    		  simultaneous use of --check and --help transient options (the
    		  check button was wrongly setup into the help box).
    		- Coding: code factorisation IOT reduce size, improve ease of
    		  maintenance and readability. Improvements to "configure" and
    		  sources for a better portability.
    		- The fixed font used by Xdialog may now be changed at compile
    		  time thanks to the "configure" script ("./configure --help"
    		  for details).
    		- Some sample scripts changed to take advantage of the textbox/
    		  editbox auto-size feature, logbox and logbox2 sample scripts
    		  added.
    		- Doc updates and improvements.

    18/03/01
    	v1.5.3	- Bug fixed (introduced in v1.5.1) that caused Xdialog
    		  to segfault when closed while a timeout function was
    		  updating the widget.
    		- The tailbox may now be closed or resized while it updates
    		  the text in its window.
    		- The --gauge now updates 100 times each second (should
    		  hopefully be enough !).
    		- Removed the possibility to setup a "Help" button into an
    		  infobox (this makes no sense for a temporary widget).
    		- The menu/lists/tree can now auto-size when the <list/menu
    		  height> parameter is set to 0.
    		- The Add/Remove buttons are now greyed out when no item
    		  is available into the associated list (Hi Albert ! ;-).
    		- New --item-help (cdialog-compatible) transient option
    		  implemented.
    		- New --check transient option implemented.
    		- Some code cleanup.
    		- Doc updates and improvements.
    		- xlock-wrapper sample script added and older sample scripts
    		  changed so to make use of the lists/menu/tree auto-size
    		  feature.

    07/03/01
    	v1.5.2	- New --progress widget added.
    		- New --fill common option implemented.
    		- Changed slightly the behaviour of --center and --right
    		  options as a work around for the GTK+ line wrap mode bugs.
    		- Some code improvement (simplification).
    		- Doc updates and improvements (a basic man page has been
    		  added too).
    		- Two samples scripts added (allrpms and format1440).

    19/01/01
    	v1.5.1: - One bug corrected (introduced in v1.4.6) that made GTK to
    		  issue warnings when using the --help option together with
    		  the --fselect and --dselect widgets while the --button-style
    		  was "icon" or "default".
    		- Much better callback timer functions for the --infobox and
    		  the --gauge widgets (refreshes occurs more often and no
    		  label/progress bar refresh can be missed anymore).
    		- New --print-maxsize special option implemented (compatible
    		  with the cdialog option of the same name).
    		- Better justification scheme for <labels> in --2inputsbox,
    		  --3inputsbox, --2rangesbox and --3rangesbox widgets. These
    		  labels now also accept "\n" for line splitting.
    		- Updated and more complete documentation.
    		- New --with-print-* compile time customization options for
    		  "configure".

    06/01/01
    	v1.5.0: - 5 new widgets:
    			--2inputsbox,
    			--3inputsbox,
    			--2rangesbox,
    			--3rangesbox,
    			--buildlist.
    		- 2 new common options:
    			--separator,
    			--separate-output.
    		- 3 new transient options:
    			--interval,
    			--default-no,
    			--wizard.
    		- 1 new special option:
    			--print-version (for cdialog compatibility).
    		- The <menu/list height> parameter is now taken into account.
    		- Better auto-sizing for some widgets.
    		- The <height> and <width> parameters are now actually related
    		  to the true (fixed font) character size.
    		- The "Help" button may now be setup so to make Xdialog to
    		  return (with exit code=2).
    		- Better parameter checking (item depth) in --treeview.
    		- Some re-write for cleaner code and smaller binary.
    		- Full HTML documentation written (as a result the README
    		  file is no more maintained and the FAQ has been HTMLized).

    15/12/00
    	v1.4.6: - Added icons for the buttons and the corresponding
    		  "--buttons-style" option
    		- Added the "--icon" transient option (allows to display
    		  an icon on the left of the <text> in boxes).
    		- Added the "--rc-file" common option (GTK theme change
    		  or customisation).

    28/08/00
    	v1.4.5:	- Another compatibilty patch (courtesy of Albert Chin-A-Young).
    		- New "--no-close" and "--allow-close" common options
    		  implemented.
    		- New "--dselect" widget implemented.
    		- A wrapper for dialog and cdialog added to samples (written
    		  from an idea of Luke Holden).
    		- "set-time" and "kernel" sample scripts added.

    18/05/00:
    	v1.4.4:	- Bug fix (core dump when a bad filename was passed to the
    		  tailbox(bg)).
    		- The <number of items> parameter is now made useless (it is
    		  only kept for compatobility with older Xdialog versions and
    		  with (c)dialog's <list height> parameter): the list size is
    		  automatically calculated from the parameter list following
    		  --menubox, --checklist, --radiolist and --treview options.
    		- When a usage error is encountered (bad parameters), Xdialog
    		  now prints on stderr a small error message before its usage.
    		- Xmessage sample script improved, set-time script added.
    		- "NEWS" file removed from the distribution (NEWS is now a link
    		  to ChangeLog) and replaced by this "ChangeLog" file into the
    		  binary RPM package).

    13/05/00:
    	v1.4.3:	- Bug fix (core dump when no size parameter was given for
    		  the last common option in the command line).
    		- New "--wmclass" option implemented.
    		- The "Help" button is now available for the fselect widget.
    		- Print command made easily configurable at compile time.

    10/05/00:
    	v1.4.2:	- One more bug fixed (buffer overflow when showing Xdialog
    		  usage) and many potential buffer overflow problems prevented
    		  using some cleaner and fool proof code.
    		- The number of items in menubox, checklist and radiolist
    		  widget is no more limited (it had a 100 items limit) and only
    		  the needed memory is allocated (makes Xdialog eats less
    		  memory).

    09/05/00:
    	v1.4.1:	Bug fix release (bug introduced in v1.4.0 that made Xdialog to
    		core-dump when an unknown option was encountered).

    08/05/00:
    	v1.4.0:	- Many code cleanup (a lot of re-written code) that makes
    		  Xdialog smaller (and with a smaller memory foot-print).
    		- New "--print" option implemented;
    		- New auto-size feature; xdialog now also accepts "-geometry"
    		  like size specification (e.g. 200x100+20-0 : the +20-0 will
    		  be ignored though, only the size is actually taken into
    		  account).
    		- textbox and editbox widgets now accepts stdin as their input
    		  file.
    		- The focus is automatically set to the text entry in inputbox
    		  and editbox.
    		- "--menu" is now known as "--menubox" (but menu may still be
    		  used because the abreviated options are recognized) and
    		  "--no-button" is now "--no-buttons".
    		- The "--no-buttons" transient option may now also be used with
    		  the inputbox and the textbox.
    		- New "--stdout" and "--stderr" common options added.
    		- New "--calendar" and "--timebox" options/widgets added.

    01/05/00:
    	v1.3.2:	- Another little patch to autogen.sh (courtesy of Albert
    		  Chin-A-Young) IOT allow Xdialog to compile without GCC.
    		- More code tidying.
    		- The percentage is now shown into the progress bar of the gauge
    		  widget.
    		- When not empty, the <backtitle> label is now separated from
    		  the <text> label by a separator.
    		- The "--no-tags" option is now taken into account by the menu
    		  box widget.

    29/04/00:
    	v1.3.1:	- A bug (introduced in v1.3.0) dealing with the --help option
    		  corrected.
    		- compatibility patch (courtesy of Albert Chin-A-Young) IOT allow
    		  Xdialog to compile on non-Linux/GCC UNICES.

    26/04/00:
    	v1.3.0:	- Corrected a timeout routines related bug that sometimes made
    		  Xdialog to core dump.
    		- Added the new editbox and range widgets.
    		- "--fixed-font" transient option added.
    		- New "--version" special option added.
    		- Closing a widget (from the window manager) now makes Xdialog
    		  to return the 255 exit code.
    		  This exit code is also returned when an error occurs.
    		- While still printed to stderr, the Xdialog usage is now also
    		  displayed into a textbox.
    		- Some more code cleanup.
    		- Some cosmetic changes to the "yesno" and "gauge" widgets.
    		- Some more improvements to the samples scripts.

    19/04/00:
    	v1.2.2:	- Added the return/KP enter keypress events recognition for
    		  the tail; this also cured a bug where pressing these keys
    		  after selecting the tailbox text window with the mouse
    		  could make Xdialog to core dump.
    		- Bug corrected (introduced in v1.2.1) in the samples/radiolist
    		  script.

    18/04/00:
    	v1.2.1: - inputbox now accepts the return key as the end of input.
    		- "samples" cleanup (they now match better the Xdialog usage).

    14/04/00:
    	v1.2.0: Many more improvements by Thierry Godefroy <xdialog@free.fr>
    		(see README for the full changes list).

    07/04/00:
    	v1.1.0: Bug fixes, code cleanup and some improvements by Thierry
    		Godefroy <xdialog@free.fr>

    18/9/99:
    	Added a --password option to make the input text all '*' à la
    	password dialogs.

    1/9/99:
    	Created Xdialog to mimic dialog.

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