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["Matthew Clark" <mattmann82 AT gmail.com>]

Thanks, all, for your replies.

My original intention was to prompt the user with a question "Use dialog for selecting protocol and hardware support? n".  If they answered N, then proceed with the spell and answer all the questions with the defaults.

But ruskie's idea was even better.

However, it seems this is a bigger fish to fry than I thought, as was apparent during a conversation in #sourcemage.  So I'll stand by until someone senior to me advises me on what to do.  I may continue hacking away at the devel version, but simply for my own learning.

Thanks again, senior developers, for your attention!  I look forward to learning from you.



- Matt

On 4/12/06, Eric Sandall < eric AT sandall.us> wrote:

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On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Andraž "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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