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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Dynamic Menu Help Post 302087262 by Glenn Arndt on Wednesday 30th of August 2006 04:47:52 PM
Old 08-30-2006
I don't know exactly how your script is intended to work, but I wrote an example script to demonstrate traversing hierarchical menu choices. Maybe it will help (no guarantees that you can't break the script; it makes assumptions).
Code:
#!/usr/bin/ksh
# The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

set -A animalname "fox" "dog"
set -A foxadject "quiet brown" "quick brown" "lazy brown" "quick red" "red slow"
set -A dogadject "slow" "quiet" "sleeping" "lazy" "brown"
set -A action "jump" "run" "skip" "hop" "roll"

until [[ -n $animal && -n $foxadj && -n $dogadj ]]
 do
  clear
  choice=1
  print "\nPlease select an animal.\n"
  select animal in ${animalname[*]}
   do
    choice=2
    print "\nPlease select a description for the $animal.\n"
    case $animal in
      fox)
        select foxadj in "${foxadject[@]}"
         do
          break $choice
        done
        ;;
      dog)
        select dogadj in "${dogadject[@]}"
         do
          break $choice
        done
        ;;
    esac
    break $choice
  done
done

until [[ -n $verb ]]
 do
  print "\nPlease select an action.\n"
  select verb in "${action[@]}"
   do
    break
  done
done

print "\nThe $foxadj fox ${verb}s over the $dogadj dog.\n"

 

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DtEditorSetContents(library call)										 DtEditorSetContents(library call)

NAME
DtEditorSetContents -- place data into a DtEditor widget SYNOPSIS
#include <Dt/Editor.h> DtEditorErrorCode DtEditorSetContents( Widget widget, DtEditorContentRec *data); DESCRIPTION
The DtEditorSetContents function places a NULL-terminated string, wide character string or sized buffer into a DtEditor widget. Any data currently in the DtEditor widget is lost. The data is transferred to the DtEditor widget using a DtEditorContentRec, which indicates the type of data being transferred along with the actual data. After the data is placed into the DtEditor widget, the insertion cursor is positioned at the first character. The widget argument specifies the DtEditor widget ID. The data argument is a pointer to a data structure containing the new contents of widget. For a complete definition of the DtEditor widget and its associated resources, see DtEditor(3). For a complete definition of DtEditorContentRec, see Dt/Editor.h - DtEditor(5). RETURN VALUE
Upon successful completion, the DtEditorSetContents function returns one of the following values: DtEDITOR_NO_ERRORS The data was loaded sucessfully. DtEDITOR_NULLS_REMOVED NULL characters were found and removed from the data. Otherwise, if the DtEditorSetContents function cannot load the data in the DtEditor widget, it returns one of the following values: DtEDITOR_INVALID_TYPE The Type field is unrecognized. DtEDITOR_ILLEGAL_SIZE The size of the buffer passed in is negative. DtEDITOR_NULL_ITEM The buffer is NULL. DtEDITOR_INSUFFICIENT_MEMORY Not enough system memory is available to load the data. EXAMPLES
The following code segment sets the contents of a DtEditor widget to ``The quick brown fox.'' Widget editor; DtEditorContentRec cr; DtEditorErrorCode status; char *sampleString="The quick brown fox"; cr.type = DtEDITOR_TEXT; cr.value.string = sampleString; status = DtEditorSetContents(editor, &cr); if (status != DtEDITOR_NO_ERRORS && status != DtEDITOR_NULLS_REMOVED) { printf("Unable to set contents of the widget "); APPLICATION USAGE
If the data is in a disk file, rather than in memory, the application should use DtEditorSetContentsFromFile(3). SEE ALSO
Dt/Editor.h - DtEditor(5), DtEditor(3), DtEditorAppend(3), DtEditorAppendFromFile(3), DtEditorGetContents(3), DtEditorInsert(3), DtEdi- torInsertFromFile(3), DtEditorReplace(3), DtEditorReplaceFromFile(3), DtEditorSaveContentsToFile(3), DtEditorSetContentsFromFile(3). DtEditorSetContents(library call)
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