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A000396
A000396

Reputation: 11

dialog/whiptail radiolist consistence

So basically I am trying to rewrite a bash script which uses dialog --radiolist for choosing locale,keyboard,time. At the moment the tag is a number that corresponds to a local (I created a hashtable for it). But because I have, and want to keep it that way for now, around 100 locales it gets messy at the end.

What I wanna achieve is to make it more compact without having to add or add an artificial, non visible item that might easily translate to its tag. (as a tag I would put the locale name)

What I have tried: 1. Noobish thing but I though that there might be some way to include empty like NULL in ASCII or 0, blank space etc, but dialog would always make it visible. 2. Exclude the item at all and finish on on/off but instead on/off takes place of item (not surprisingly if options are as follow --radiolist text height width list-height [ tag item status ]) 3. Instead of letting the dialog on exit write to the output the name of the chosen locale I created an output statement myself.

I had red a lot about dialog and whiptail(http://linux.die.net/man/1/dialog, http://linuxcommand.org/lc3_adv_dialog.php) but always end up with having to add tag and an item. Would appreciate any suggestions and maybe some info if there is easily plug-gable dialog/whiptail compatible libs.

Thank You in advance

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1462

Answers (1)

Thomas Dickey
Thomas Dickey

Reputation: 54505

Perhaps you overlooked the --no-tags option (see manpage):

--no-tags

Some widgets (checklist, inputmenu, radiolist, menu) display a list with two columns (a "tag" and "description"). The tag is useful for scripting, but may not help the user. The --no-tags option (from Xdialog) may be used to suppress the column of tags from the display. Unlike the --no-items option, this does not affect the data which is read from the script.

The question mentions whiptail and consistency, which could refer to consistency across dialog and whiptail. There is none, since

  • whiptail provides fewer options than dialog (inevitably, there will be differences, since there is no one-one mapping possible)
  • consistency as such between the two is done in dialog occasionally to help with compatibility (the reverse is not true).

Upvotes: 0

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