inputmenu

This version of dialog, formerly known as cdialog is based on the Debian package for dialog 0.9a (se

#! /bin/bash
# $Id: inputmenu,v 1.4 2003/10/09 22:39:35 tom Exp $
# 2002 - written by Tobias Rittweiler <[e-mail]>
: ${DIALOG=dialog}

user="$USER"    ; uid="$UID"   ;
gid="$GROUPS"  ; home="$HOME"  ;

while [ ${returncode:-99} -ne 1 -a ${returncode:-99} -ne 250 ]; do
       exec 3>&1
       value=$("$DIALOG" --clear --ok-label "Create" \
                          --backtitle "An Example for the use of --inputmenu:" \
                          --inputmenu "Originally I designed --inputmenu for a \
configuration purpose. Here is a possible piece of a configuration program. \
" 20 50 10 \
"Username:" "$user" \
"UID:"      "$uid" \
"GID:"      "$gid" \
"HOME:"     "$home" \
2>&1 1>&3 )
       returncode=$?
       exec 3>&-
       case $returncode in
               1)
               "$DIALOG"  --clear --backtitle "An Example for the use of --inputmenu:" \
                               --yesno "Really quit?" 10 30
               case $? in
                       0) break;;
                       1) returncode=99;;
               esac
               ;;
               0)
               "$DIALOG" --clear --backtitle "An Example for the use of --inputmenu:"  \
                         --msgbox "$(useradd -d "$home" -u "$uid" -g "$gid" "$user" 2>&1)" 10 40
               ;;
               3)
               value="${value:8:${#value}}"
               tag="${value%:*}"
               item="${value#*: }"

               case "$tag" in
                       Username) user="$item";;
                       UID) uid="$item";;
                       GID) gid="$item";;
                       HOME) home="$item";;
               esac

       esac
done