Re: the too wide modules window

[Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>]

In reference to a message from Sean 'Shaleh' Perry, dated Dec 13:
> while doing installs, I noted that the net modules window was too wide to see
> the actual module names.  This is due to overly long text in some descriptions.
>  We need to seek a better method, or teach all of our users that a tulip card
> is actually the lip card (-:

incidentally, it appears that Enrique was not aware of an NMU i made that
fixed some of the word wrapping bugs in whiptail/newt. I had uploaded 0.50-4.1
that closed three bugs (36587, 43270 and 47855). These bugs appear to be
there again in 0.50-5 and perhaps should be reopened.

The patch is attached here. I'm pretty sure I've sent this in before, but
anyway...

randolph
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diff -uNr newt-0.50.orig/dialogboxes.c newt-0.50/dialogboxes.c
--- newt-0.50.orig/dialogboxes.c	Sat Oct 23 21:29:20 1999
+++ newt-0.50/dialogboxes.c	Sat Oct 23 21:32:42 1999
@@ -364,6 +364,18 @@
     newtComponent form, yes, tb, answer;
     newtComponent no = NULL;
     int tFlag = (flags & FLAG_SCROLL_TEXT) ? NEWT_FLAG_SCROLL : 0;
+    char * buf, * src, * dst;
+   
+    dst = buf = alloca(strlen(text) + 1);
+    src = text; 
+    while (*src) {
+	if (*src == '\\' && *(src + 1) == 'n') {
+	    src += 2;
+	    *dst++ = '\n';
+	} else
+	    *dst++ = *src++;
+    }
+    *dst++ = '\0';
 
     form = newtForm(NULL, NULL, 0);
 
@@ -375,7 +387,7 @@
       tb = newtTextbox(1, 1, width - 2, height - 2, NEWT_FLAG_WRAP | tFlag);
     }
 
-    newtTextboxSetText(tb, text);
+    newtTextboxSetText(tb, buf);
 
     newtFormAddComponent(form, tb);
 
diff -uNr newt-0.50.orig/entry.c newt-0.50/entry.c
--- newt-0.50.orig/entry.c	Sun Aug  1 21:25:14 1999
+++ newt-0.50/entry.c	Sat Oct 23 21:34:06 1999
@@ -285,6 +285,12 @@
 	}
 	break;
 
+      case '\025':				/* ^U */
+        en->cursorPosition = 0;
+        *(en->buf) = 0;
+        en->bufUsed = 0;
+        break;
+       
       case NEWT_KEY_BKSPC:
 	if (en->cursorPosition) {
 	    /* if this isn't true, there's nothing to erase */
diff -uNr newt-0.50.orig/form.c newt-0.50/form.c
--- newt-0.50.orig/form.c	Sat Oct 23 21:29:20 1999
+++ newt-0.50/form.c	Sat Oct 23 21:37:10 1999
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
   unsigned char buttons, modifiers;  /* try to be a multiple of 4 */
   unsigned short vc;
   short dx, dy, x, y;
-  short wdx, wdy;               // For wheels..
+  short wdx, wdy;               /* For wheels.. */
   enum Gpm_Etype type;
   int clicks;
   enum Gpm_Margin margin;