* Thomas Dickey <dic...@his.com> [221120, 13:45]: > On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 05:42:05PM +0100, ennio wrote: > > * Thomas Dickey <dic...@his.com> [281020, 20:09]: > ... > > Ok, I'm enclosing the test-menu file 'p_menu.sh' and a shortned > > '.dialogrc' used for my many tests. I tried with a full .dialogrc file > > as well with the same identical results... > ... > > # ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > # Run-time configuration file for dialog > > # > > # Automatically generated by "dialog --create-rc <file>" > > # > > [big cut] > > The basic problem is that there are color combinations which aren't set. > Referring to samples/debian.rc, these at the end of the file are the > missing settings that deal with the border colors: > > # Dialog box border2 color > border2_color = dialog_color [***] -> for upper left inner > box > > # Input box border2 color > inputbox_border2_color = dialog_color > > # Search box border2 color > searchbox_border2_color = dialog_color > > # Menu box border2 color > menubox_border2_color = dialog_color [***] -> for lower right extl. > box > > In particular, the last one is what your configuration needs.
I had to employ both the first and last line, as shown above, but now everything is as I wanted it to be. > > Offhand, I believe those were introduced here: > > 2011/10/18 > + add color table entries for secondary borders, i.e., the ones that > are normally drawn with the dialog's text-colors (Debian #641168). > Yes, that's correct > Thomas E. Dickey <dic...@invisible-island.net> > https://invisible-island.net > ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net Thomas, I thank you very much indeed and very deeply for your help while blaming myself for not having been so 'quick minded' as to look into old bugs and changelogs and to run <dialog --create-rc 'file'> when updating the dialog pkg. Alas! That's what happens when we become elders... Have my best regards and thanks again, Ennio -- [Perché usare Win$ozz (dico io) se ..."anche uno sciocco sa farlo. \\?// Fà qualche cosa di cui non sei capace!" (diceva Henry Miller) (°|°) [Why use Win$ozz (I say) if ... "even a fool can do that. .)=(. Do something you aren't good at!" (as Henry Miller used to say)] /_____\
