Re: Dialog: Inputbox default window

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 06:31:29PM +0100, Tyler Joseph Huffman wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I'm developing a small tool to read in barcode scans on a keyboardless
> computer, and I've been using the dialog tool as a library for a C++
> application.
> 
> In the bash example, running:
> 
> $> dialog --inputbox "Hello, world!" 0 0
> 
> Has the cursor default to the input box. However, calling the function:
> 
> dialog_inputbox("", "Hello, world!", 0, 0, 0, 0);
> 
> Should functionally produce the same result, though in this case, the
> default cursor is on the "Ok" button. Is this a bug? And if not,
> perhaps I am misunderstanding a key detail for the default cursor
> placement?

That is done by setting the dialog_vars structure.  In the widget,
it makes this check:

        state = dialog_vars.default_button >= 0 ? dlg_default_button() : sTEXT;

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