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

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 06:18:43PM -0700, Alan Somers wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 6:05 PM Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > 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
> 
> Yes.  I've tried that one and several earlier ones too, and they're all fine.
> 
> >
> > Also, what terminal (and $TERM value)?
> 
> Both the console (TERM=xterm) and xfce4-terminal (TERM=xterm-256color)
> show the problem.  However, alacritty (TERM=xterm-256color) works
> fine.
> 
> >
> > (I don't have a FreeBSD current, but do have 11 and 12 release,
> > to investigate).
> 
> I see the problem on 12.0-RELEASE as well.

I can see a problem (will determine where it's coming from, this evening).

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