On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 09:43 -0600, John Leo Zimmer wrote:
[KSB2] <...snip...>
> > [KSB] Try something like:
> >
> > export DIALOG=${DIALOG:=`which Xdialog`} ; if [[ -z $DIALOG ]] ;
> > then export DIALOG=`which dialog` ; fi
> >
> > and in your script use $DIALOG as the program to use. Now that I
> > think about it, a construct like the following might be even better:
> >
> > if [[ -z $DISPLAY ]] ; then export DIALOG=`which dialog` ; else ...
> > ; fi
> >
>
> [jlz] OK, Thanks. That's what I needed. This works to test for both X and
> Xdialog.
>
> ######
> if [[ -z $DISPLAY ]] ; then dialog --infobox "X not running" 0 0 ;
> $vista_source/dvista ; exit 1
> fi
> export XDIALOG=`which Xdialog`
> if [[ -z $XDIALOG ]] ; then dialog --msgbox "Xdialog not installed" 0 0 ;
> $vista_source/dvista ; exit 1
> fi
> ######
Try this (just 3 lines; watch out for line breaks):
export DIALOG=`which Xdialog`
if [[ -z $DIALOG || -z $DISPLAY ]] ; then export DIALOG=`which dialog` ;
fi
$DIALOG --title "Dialog Chooser Demo" --infobox "Using $DIALOG" 0 0
Sometime, I should probably update the vista script to allow dialog.
But Xdialog has more visual appeal.
-- Bhaskar
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