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Dialog - Curses menus made easy #1
This is less of a tutorial and more of a "hey, this exists!" thread. Dialog is an awesome utility that makes creating CLI menus and selectors like those used in the wifi-menu script of Arch's netctl package super fast and easy. If you've ever used the Arch Anywhere installer, you've seen just what it can do, and it's pretty impressive.

There's a ton of config options for color schemes and the like, as well as 30-odd different menu options such as forms, calendars, checklists, file and directory selectors, and progress bars. If you ever need an interactive program, stop home-brewing and use this!

docs: https://linux.die.net/man/1/dialog
(This post was last modified: 04-25-2017, 12:50 AM by Inori.)
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RE: Dialog - Curses menus made easy #2
Is Arch Anywhere like the old installation framework? I missed how fast that was. I don't use Arch as much anymore.
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RE: Dialog - Curses menus made easy #3
(04-25-2017, 12:56 AM)Oni Wrote: Is Arch Anywhere like the old installation framework? I missed how fast that was. I don't use Arch as much anymore.

Not sure I'm familiar with and old installation framework. Or any, for that matter, that's why Arch rocks Tongue
Arch Anywhere has a ton config options, but if you wanted to, you could just mash enter and get it all done in 20 minutes, depending on how good your internet is.
(This post was last modified: 04-25-2017, 01:18 AM by Inori.)
It's often the outcasts, the iconoclasts ... those who have the least to lose because they
don't have much in the first place, who feel the new currents and ride them the farthest.

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RE: Dialog - Curses menus made easy #4
Honestly a nifty collection. I'll have to recommend it to my coworkers.

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RE: Dialog - Curses menus made easy #5
Seen this before.

TBH at this point I kinda hate curses and am using ANSII escape codes for everything.

I'm not really good at making UIs. (any kind except for web, I can sorta do web design)


(11-02-2018, 02:51 AM)Skullmeat Wrote: Ok, there no real practical reason for doing this, but that's never stopped me.

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