Re: dialog-1.3-20180621 displays ugly black bars on FreeBSD

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 03:39:11PM -0700, Alan Somers wrote:
> Prior to 1.3-20180621 dialog would fill unused space at the end of the
> line with the background color.  However, starting with 1.3-20180621
> it doesn't.  Instead, it seems to fill with whatever the terminal's
> background color was prior to starting dialog.
> 
> Steps to reproduce on FreeBSD current:
> cat /etc/rc.conf | dialog --programbox 23 76
> 
> With older versions of dialog the box's background is a consistent
> color.  With 1.3-20180621 and newer, the trailing unused part of each
> line is filled with (on my terminal at least) black.

hmm - in a quick check here with dialog 1.3-20181107 running in screen
or xterm, both white-background, I'm not seeing that problem - it fills
with color.  (The changes in dialog since 20180621 were just portability
fixes in the configure script).

What was the previous good version of dialog?
I'd assume that was 1.3-20171209

Also, what terminal (and $TERM value)?

(I don't have a FreeBSD current, but do have 11 and 12 release,
to investigate).
 
> The problem is evident in FreeBSD's bundled version of dialog, in the
> ports tree's version, and in the upstream sources.
> 
> -Alan

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