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New features:
- alarmclock, an interactive alarm clock utility that uses getgui. Set the time you want the alarm to go off,
and a message. When the time comes a getgui box appears on your screen with the reminder.
- new command line option -keycursor allows control of where the cursor is initially in
a key input field.
- -initval can now be used with -filepick
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New features:
- new command line option -keyend.
If specified, the GUI box will terminate when user presses Enter or Tab, even if
buttons are present.
- new command line option -sleepmin n.
If specified, getgui will sleep for n minutes before doing anything
allowing getgui to be used as a popup reminder.
- new command line option -async.
If specified, getgui will output a line of text containing the string !waiting!
to stdout every 1/2 second. This allows C programs to do other things (such as service
expose events) while polling for a getgui user response.
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This is a complete rewrite (except for underlying graphic and x11 code).
Some command line option names and syntax have changed relative to v 1.3.. if you have
existing scripts that use getgui 1.3 some porting will be necessary in
order to use 2.0. Also, libgetgui(3) is no longer available.
New features:
- automatic control layout
- automatic centering on X11 screen
- select box (-selectbox), pulldowns (-pulldown), and associated features
- file selection box (-filepick)
- horizontal layout option (-horiz, useful for wizard interface)
- title option (-title)
- key entry area now scrolls horizontally
- many style details controllable from the command line
- cursor blink on -keyin field
- -shortpick and -ipick for managing user selections
Changes:
- libgetgui(3) no longer available; C programs can use popen() and fgets() to
invoke getgui as a separate process, and capture the results.
- the -editbox multiline text entry control is no longer available.. suggested
replacement is to deploy a user-friendly editor such as xedit(1) or pico(1).
- button label specification now uses bar (|) separator; before it used comma separator. Since it
has bar separators it now must always be enclosed in quotes.
- -prompt is now called -msg
- -keyinput is now called -keyin
- the control scheme for in-progress messages now uses a semaphore file
- -keyinput -pw is now -password
- getgui(1) alarm clock functionality has been dropped - I hope to implement this as a separate utility
- Some minor command line options have been dropped.
- Window expose events should now be handled properly everywhere.
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Copyright Steve Grubb
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Markup created by unroff 1.0, April 21, 2005.
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