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Is it possible to create following elements inside of pythondialog boxes?

• Drop down menu
• Hidden content
• Checkboxes

I attach screenshot of what I would like to see, however I didn't found it in documentation.

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Hello!

Amazing python project. Please tell me, is it possible to customize the interface inside python or do we always need to edit the ~/.dialogrc file?

Thanks in advance

Hello!

I am wondering if it is possible to have two widgets at the same time, one msgbox to display text and alter in realtime and a dialog text input under. Does the library support this? With the examples, running one widget after the other I'm not sure how to approach this.

Thanks

Hi,
I was playing with your code, and was wanting to offer some additional examples:
#! /usr/bin/env python3 import locale from dialog import Dialog
''' This is almost always a good thing to do at the beginning of your programs. '''
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
''' You may want to use 'autowidgetsize=True' here (requires pythondialog >= 3.1) '''
d = Dialog(dialog="dialog")
''' Dialog.set_background_title() requires pythondialog 2.13 or later '''
d.set_background_title("YES/NO Help sample")
''' In pythondialog 3.x, you can compare the return code to d.OK, Dialog.OK or
"ok" (same object). In pythondialog 2.x, you have to use d.DIALOG_OK, which
is deprecated since version 3.0.0.'''
user_selection = d.yesno("Hi, this is a yes/no dialog box. You can use this to ask
questions that have an answer of either yes or no.
BTW, do you notice that long lines will be automatically
wrapped around so that they can fit in the box? You can
also control line breaking explicitly by inserting
'backslash n' at any place you like, but in this case,
auto wrap around will be disabled and you will have to
control line breaking yourself.", title="YES/NO BOX",width=0,height=0,help_button=True)
if user_selection == d.OK:
d.msgbox("You chose yes")
elif user_selection == d.CANCEL:
d.msgbox("You chose no")
elif user_selection == d.HELP:
d.msgbox("You pressed help")
elif user_selection == d.ESC:
d.msgbox("You pressed ESC")
else:
d.msgbox("WHAT DID YOU DO?!?!")

Hello,

I use pythondialog, thank's for your job :)

I try to color text in dialog, but is not work correctly in Python3
In old version (python2), it's worked nice, but in python3, it's almost work.
When i used this : "\Z5mytext\Zn", text is colored, but \ character apears in text.

Can you help me with this ?

Regards,

Currently, pythondialog is only available as a tar.gz archive on PyPI. The problem with this is that it requires the end user to have the setuptools package installed.

Providing a wheel file would solve this.

All that would need to be done is replace

from distutils.core import setup

in setup.py with

from setuptools import setup

And then package it with python setup.py bdist_wheel

Hello,

When Dialog is created with autowidgetsize=True, the textbox widget does not size correctly if file contains Tab characters.

It is probably a dialog backend upstream issue (using 1.3-20160209 here), because passing "--textbox filename 0 0" gives this same result.

I worked around this behavior by computing dimensions using maxsize() so that window covers whole terminal regardless, but it's not an ideal situation.

Using extended ASCII chars like █ are counted with a larger width as displayed in the terminal. Meaning, the dialog window extends itself more than needed. Width can't be set to a lower setting, as it will throw a DialogError and the note Can't make sub-window at (42,9), size (1,194)

This picture can only be obtained through setting width=0:

Here is the original ASCII art, for testing of course 😅.

xx______________________________________________________________xx
xx______________________________________________________________xx
xx________________________________________████████████__________xx
xx______________________________________██////////////██________xx
xx___________________________________ ██////////////////██______xx
xx_________________________________ ██//// __ ////// __ //██____xx
xx_________________________________ ██////__██//////██__//██____xx
xx__________________________________██////__██//////██__//██____xx
xx__________________________________██//////////██////////██____xx
xx__________________________________██////████//////████//██____xx
xx________________________________██////██//////██//////██______xx
xx______________________██████████////////████//////████________xx
xx____________________██//////██////////██//////////██__██______xx
xx__________________██////////////////////////////////██________xx
xx________________██//////////////////////////////////██________xx
xx____████████__██//////////////////////////////////██__________xx
xx__██////////████////////////////██////////////////██████______xx
xx██////██////////////////////////██//////////██//██//////████__xx
xx__████//////////██////////////██//////////██//██//////██////██xx
xx██////////////██████////////██████////////████__████////////██xx
xx__████████████______██████████//////////██__________████████__xx
xx______________________________██████████______________________xx
xx______________________________________________________________xx
xx______________________________________________________________xx

(It also suffice to just use a long enough line with extended ASCII symbols of course 🙊)

EDIT: I figured out how to circumvent this: Setting tab_len=1 for this window allows setting the size, but also forces one to set it manually for this window.

from dialog import Dialog
d = Dialog()
d.msgbox("a\nb")
d.msgbox("c\\nd")
print("a\nb")
print("c\\nd")

Both msgboxes show two lines.
The print shows something different.

Is this on purpose?

Debian, python3-dialog 3.5.1, Python 3.7.3, dialog 1.3-20190211-1

I am currently using python3-dialog 3.4.0-1 (with Ubuntu 18.04). None of the password dialogs show the '*' characters when I enter the password but the dialog do record the password input.

Many thanks
Joe

The documentation has a wrong assignment for attributes in elements description

it says:
0 := hidden
1 := read only

but should be:
0 := text
1 := hidden
2 := read only

Hi, thanks for your lib.

I don't find any doc about testing. Is that possible? If yes, what is the best practice?
Thank you !

Here is the class I would like to test for giving you an idea if it can help.

Trying to create a msgbox with color as d.msgbox("\Z1test\Zn regular",color=True) renders the string text in red with the text regular in the usual black color. However, the \ characters preceeding both the Zs remain in the text. So the above text gets rendered as \ test \ regular with the colors correct.

Am I missing something?

pythondialog = 3.5.3
dialog = Version: 1.3-20171209

I'd like to have the menuconfig-like interface in a pure python utility. It seems that the urwid library has some half-baked dialog.py in its examples - I wonder if this could be baked in into the lib so that no external exe would need to be called if urwid exists;

or, pythondialog speaks of "dialog-like" backends; are you aware of any that would be pure python or at least installable on Linux / Mac with pip?