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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to create multiple input box in same window using dialog Post 302698433 by kalpeer on Monday 10th of September 2012 05:25:24 AM
Old 09-10-2012
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i am using Centos 5 and installed the rpm dialog-1.0.20051107-1.2.2

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After long search i got how to use form. Form helps us to use multiple text field.
Code:
dialog --backtitle "Dialog Form Example" --title "Dialog - Form" \
--form "\nDialog Sample Label and Values" 25 60 16 \
"Form Label 1:" 1 1 "Value 1" 1 25 25 30 \
"Form Label 2:" 2 1 "Value 2" 2 25 25 30 \
"Form Label 3:" 3 1 "Value 3" 3 25 25 30 \
"Form Label 4:" 4 1 "Value 4" 4 25 25 30 \
2>/tmp/form.$$

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