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#8 Bug/Feature request: support scrolling for choicelist and radiolist
Closed: Invalid Opened by evidlo.

Closed: Invalid
Reopen Issue

There are situations where one may have many choices or radio buttons. In this case, the options overflow from the window and can even run off the screen.

options=({1..99})
for option in "${options[@]}"
do
    args+=("$option" "" OFF)
done
whiptail --checklist "title" 20 78 ${#options[@]} "${args[@]}"

The ideal solution would be to automatically enable scrolling, or manually enable it with --scrolltext.

dialog does this correctly:

options=({1..99})
for option in "${options[@]}"
do
    args+=("$option" "" OFF)
done
dialog --checklist "title" 20 78 ${#options[@]} "${args[@]}"

Ah, so I didn't realize that list-height must not exceed window height. Everything is good now. This issue can be closed.
Edited by evidlo

Ok, closing.

Metadata Update from @mlichvar:
- Issue close_status updated to: Invalid
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
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