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Basic dialog commands and switches

/dialog -mdtsonkcvie name [table] [x y w h] [text] <br>
Where name is the name by which you'll refer to the dialog, and table is the dialog table name used to create dialog

  -m	create a modeless dialog using 'table' /dialog -m name table
  -a	used with -m, uses currently  active window as the parent
  -x	close a dialog without triggering any events
  -d	open dialog on the desktop, used with -m
  -h	make dialog work with active server connection
  -t	set dialog title /dialog -t name text
  -s	set dialog size/pos /dialog -s name x y w h
  -r	centers dialog
  -bp	interprets size as dbu or pixels
  -o	set dialog ontop of all windows
  -n	unset ontop setting
  -k	click ok button
  -c	click cancel button
  -v	makes the dialog the active window
  -ie	minimize/restore the dialog if created on the desktop

The dialog table
You can use the dialog prefix to create a dialog table called name in a script using this format:

dialog [-l] name {

  title	"text"
  icon	filename, index
  size	x y w h
  option	type (dbu, pixels, notheme)

  text	"text", id, x y w h, style  (right, center, nowrap)
  edit	"text", id, x y w h, style  (right, center, multi, pass, read, return, hsbar, vsbar, autohs, autovs, limit N)
  button	"text", id, x y w h, style  (default, ok, cancel, flat, multi)
  check	"text", id, x y w h, style  (left, push, 3state)
  radio	"text", id, x y w h, style  (left, push)
  box	"text", id, x y w h, style

  scroll	"text", id, x y w h, style (top left bottom right horizontal range N N)

  list	id, x y w h, style          (sort, extsel, multsel, size, vsbar, hsbar, check, radio)
  combo	id, x y w h, style          (sort, edit, drop, size, vsbar, hsbar)

  icon	id, x y w h, filename, index, style    (noborder top left bottom right small large actual)

  link	"text", id, x y w h

  tab 	"text", id, x y w h
  tab	"text", id

  menu	"text", menuid [, menuid]

  item	"text", id [, menuid]
  item	break, id [, menuid]

}

The -l switch makes a dialog table local, so that it can only be accessed by other scripts in the same file.