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Old 10-13-2013
Variable arangement to display

Hello

For this future package for community, i'd like to know your preference on this presented 'issue'.

Writing some commands which will display some strings, using another command supporting 3 strings to be supplied, i wonder how the 'default output' should look like.

Let me use a picture to illustrate:
Image

Refering to the "download"-lines..
Code:
# | Downloading...               pcbsd9.2_handbook_en_ver9.2.pdf (5.6M)                [  /   ] | #

Actualy is:
tui-printf "Downloading..." "$THIS ($tmp_size)" "[ $(tui-indi) ]" inside the command tui-status, which reports a visual interpreter for the return level of previous executed command.


Maybe too much details...
And i wonder if that either should be applied to the others as well, so:
Code:
# | Downloaded: /home/simon/net/dls/demo-4186/pcbsd9.2_handbook_en_ver9.2.pdf          [  ✔   ] | #

Which currently is:
tui-status $? "Downloaded: $(pwd)/$THIS"
would become:
tui-status $? "Downloaded:" "$(pwd)/$THIS"
Which would result/look like:
Code:
# | Downloaded:              /home/simon/pcbsd9.2_handbook_en_ver9.2.pdf               [  ✔   ] | #



So straighly asked:
1)
Code:
# | Downloaded:              /home/simon/pcbsd9.2_handbook_en_ver9.2.pdf               [  ✔   ] | #

2)
Code:
# | Downloaded: /home/simon/pcbsd9.2_handbook_en_ver9.2.pdf                            [  ✔   ] | #

Just imagine you'd be using it...
As default information output presented to you, which would you prefer?

Thank you

EDIT PS:
Oh, and if you would prefer 2 for the default output, would you like to have the 'processing information' aligend in the center (as in the screenshot) or lefthand side too?
Full script can be seen if you follow the image's link.

Last edited by sea; 10-13-2013 at 10:42 AM..
 

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