TUI Dialogs

Using the Windows port of the dialog program, available from http://andrear.altervista.org/home/cdialog.php, you can create simple TUI screens. For example;

Code:
dialog.exe --textbox dialog.btm 22 70
will allow you to view a file, with the ability to scroll and search the file;

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Code:
dialog --calendar "Select a date" 3 36 %_day %_month %_year

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For a brief overview of what dialog can do: https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2807

Source code for dialog is available from http://andrear.altervista.org/contents/pc/dialog/dialog-hammered-for-mingw.tar.gz

Joe
 
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