Re: zenity --text-info autoscrolling?

[Floris <jkfloris@dds.nl>]

Op Tue, 28 Mar 2017 04:03:20 +0200 schreef Jason <electron@emypeople.net>:

> On Sun, 26 Mar 2017 22:03:33 +0200
> Floris <jkfloris@dds.nl> wrote:
>
> > Op Fri, 24 Mar 2017 23:33:06 +0100 schreef Jason  
> > <electron@emypeople.net>:
> >
> > > In interactive shell scripts I like piping output into zenity
> > > --text-info for display. If
> > > the output is more than fits in the zenity window, any additional lines
> > > will be too far
> > > down to display unless the user manually scrolls down to the bottom of
> > > the text.
> > >
> > > Does anyone know if there is a way to tell zenity to automatically
> > > scroll down as lines
> > > are added so that the last lines are always visible? This way the  
> > > output
> > > of the current
> > > action would be displaying at the bottom of the zenity dialog box,
> > > instead of not being
> > > visible.
> > >
> > > Using zenity 3.4.0-2 on Debian 8.1.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Thanks.
> > > Jason
> >
> > perhaps you can use yad, a fork of zenity, with the tail option:
> > https://packages.debian.org/sid/yad
> >
> > $ yad --help-text
> > Usage:
> >   yad [OPTION...] - Yet another dialoging program
> >
> > Text information options
> >   --text-info                                    Display text  
> > information
> > dialog
> >   --fore=COLOR                                   Use specified color for
> > text
> >   --back=COLOR                                   Use specified color for
> > background
> >   --wrap                                         Enable text wrapping
> >   --justify=TYPE                                 Set justification  
> > (left,
> > right, center or fill)
> >   --margins=SIZE                                 Set text margins
> >   --tail                                         Autoscroll to end of  
> > text
> >   --show-cursor                                  Show cursor in  
> > read-only
> > mode
> >   --show-uri                                     Make URI clickable
> >   --uri-color=COLOR                              Use specified color for
> > links
> >
> >
> > success,
> >
> > floris
>
> Thanks for the suggestion; it sounds like something that would work.  
> Unfortunately, I
> must work with something that already exists on my target systems  
> (zenity does but not
> yad) as it is not an option to add programs on some of these systems. Of  
> course, you
> could not know that as I had not stated it in my original post.
>
> Thanks for your reply!
> Jason

Is it possible to update to version 3.12 or higher?
https://download.gnome.org/sources/zenity/3.12/zenity-3.12.1.news
Zenity 3.12.1
        ...
        - Bug #667711 - man page points to nonexisting doc (Arx Cruz)
        - Bug #600533 zenity --text-info should have an auto scroll option  
(Arx Cruz)
        - Bug #534935 Need hability to specify default answer in  
--question dialog (Berislav Kovacki)
	...

Floris