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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

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On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Andra?? "ruskie" Levstik wrote:
> Karsten Behrmann wrote :
<snip>
> > On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 21:29:55 -0500, Matthew Clark wrote:
> > > I recently began trying to improve the net-tools spell by replacing that
> > > long list of questions with a dialog.
> > [...]
> > > Since I am limited in my ability to script it well, I am asking a fellow
> > > developer (or anyone who can bash-script lika muthaphukka) to take a look.
> >
> > I'm taking a look ;-)
> > looks pretty good, maybe a few "you should not do that"-s,
> > but generally some good ideas there.
>
> Hmmm this is just my humble opinion but I'm not a fan of dialog in spells.
> It's to me annoying.
>
> I would prefer to have:
> config_query NETTOOLS_CONFIG "Do you want to reconfigure" y
> if [[ $NETTOOLS_CONFIG == y ]]
> then
> config_query NETTOOLS_CONFIG_GUI "Use dialog configuration question?" n
>  if [[ $NETTOOLS_CONFIG_GUI == y ]]
>  then
>    do the dialog magic
>  fi
> else
> give me the normal questions
> fi
>
> Just my suggestion... I'd like this seen in all spells that use dialog.

I believe the current convention is to use config_queries for most
questions, but if there are many (undefined, some would say >5, others
> 20) questions then use a dialog.

- -sandalle

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Eric Sandall                     |  Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
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