Appbrowser shell (ab)

[kanan]

Hello all,

I'm just getting started with this awesome little distro.  I was using the ab command from the shell. I'm running microcore.  And I'm not sure it's a bug, but it feels like it may be.

When I go to install something, so I've already searched for the name, selected the number and it shows an info page.  The only key that I can get to work is 'q'.  And there's no instructions saying that I should press 'q', I just banged around on the keyboard until something worked.  So I press 'q', then the menu displays, instructing me to press 'i' to install...and the program installs.

After I've installed one program, if I search for another, without leaving ab, I don't get shown the info page for the next program.  I just get the menu...(the same menu I see after pressing 'q' with the first program)


I'm a LAMP programmer by trade but have worked with cpp before and would be happy to make the fix...If I'm on the right track here that is.  I don't want to step on anyone's toes, or misdiagnose this as a bug when it's a "feature".


Thanks all, I'm really impressed with this distro and plan on using it on my next project.  Great work guys!

-Kanan

[curaga]

Having to press 'q' is a feature (of less, to be exact), the extension info not showing for the second one would be a bug.

Patches welcome, anyways.

ab is a shell script, btw

[roberts]

The subsequent .info not displaying was caused by the recent change to select in v3.4. The following will make ab once again work as expected.

Code: [Select]

--- /usr/bin/ab
+++ /mnt/sda1/core/micro/source/usr/bin/ab
@@ -56,8 +56,8 @@
   D|d) displayDepends ;;
   F|f) displayFiles ;;
   L|l) selectItem ;;
-  S|s) ITEM="" && searchRepository "$ITEM" && selectItem; displayInfo ;;
-  P|p) ITEM="" && whatProvides "$ITEM" && selectItem; displayInfo ;;
+  S|s) ITEM="" && searchRepository "$ITEM" && selectItem && displayInfo ;;
+  P|p) ITEM="" && whatProvides "$ITEM" && selectItem && displayInfo ;;
   Q|q) break ;;
   *) displayInfo ;;
 esac 


[tinypoodle]

Having to press 'q' is a feature (of less, to be exact)

more or less...  

[Sorry, couldn't help it]

[kanan]

So do we want to put an instruction on there about the pressing 'q' thing?

I did look for the cpp source of appbrowser, found it for tinycore, but it looked to be mostly UI.

[tinypoodle]

You might want to have a look at appbrowser-cli.tcz, if perhaps it serves you better.

[kanan]

This is where I was looking:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/3.x/release/src/fltk_projects/appbrowser/

Where's the other file at?

[tinypoodle]

Umm, use ab (at least once more) to load it?

[kanan]

lol, right. I thought for some reason by what you said that appbrowser was written as an extension, and appbrowser-cli.tcz was the source name.

Appbrowser really works fine for me now that I know the trick.  I just wanted to help out and make the fix.

[tinypoodle]

.tcz are always binary extensions (squash filesystems)