Adding New Selections to the existing Script

[NetRock]

Hi....

i have two scripts called:
"type" & "selecttype".
In "type" i have only the name of the products ex.: product1 & product2. Now, i have to ADD product3 which includes sub categories: productA, productB, productC, productD, productE, productF. so my New type script (menu) looks as below:

1) product1
2) product2
3) product3

and my current selectype looks
My question is how can I add the new product3 argument with all other multiple selections (productA, productB, productC, productD, productE, productF) into my current selectype (as below which is set only for product1 & product2), so when a user select: 3) product3 from "type" would get a new menu of all the sub categories, and the script would process the new additional arguments.

Here is the copy of my selectype script:

#!/bin/sh
echo SELECTTYPE
export -n selecttypechoice

if [ "${upgrade}" == "yes" ] ; then
selecttypechoice=${upgrade_type}
else
[ -a ./types ]
if [ $? = 0 ] ; then
#### Select Type from types file
echo --title \"$installproductchoice Server Role\" --menu \"Select Role to install\" 20 48 6 > /tmp/selecttype.dialog
for vpackages in `cat types`; do
if [ "$typesexception" = "" ] ; then
echo \"$vpackages\" Role >> /tmp/selecttype.dialog;
else
echo $typesexception | grep -i "$vpackages"
if [ $? = 0 ] ; then
echo .
else
echo \"$vpackages\" Role >> /tmp/selecttype.dialog;
fi
fi
done;

dialog --file /tmp/selecttype.dialog 2> /tmp/selecttype.choice
if [ $? = 0 ] ; then
export selecttypechoice=`cat /tmp/selecttype.choice`;
else
export -n selecttypechoice;
fi
reset
echo selecttypechoice $selecttypechoice
if [ "$selecttypechoice" = "" ] ; then
echo Aborted: User Aborted while selecting a $installproductchoice Role
echo .........Try again !!
exit ;
fi
fi
fi

**** Thank you in advance for your help!!

[nmset]

I'm not really helpful to solve your problem the way you want. I think that bash scripting does not exist to manage these kinds of jobs. You might consider some programming language based on GUI, like Qt/C++, Java, Basic...

Not tsaying it cannot be done in Bash but it's not bash's vocation. If you really want to go on with Bash, you'd better use loops and functions, each for a particular task, like show a dialog, process input... instead of a big one-way monolithic code where you can't get back to a desired step.

[NetRock]

Ok guys i tried lots of other ways but so far nothing. what i did is created a file called pro3types but the script starts & by pass the file. i added +x to file ran the process but still no luck.
i was wondering what else i should change to get the menu to the sub-categories of product3 after users selecting it. here is the code:

#!/bin/sh
echo SELECTTYPE
export -n selecttypechoice

if [ "${upgrade}" == "yes" ] ; then
  selecttypechoice=${upgrade_type}
else
  [ -a ./types ]
  if [ $? = 0 ] ; then  
##### Select Type from types file
  	echo --title \"$installproductchoice Server Role\" --menu \"Select Role to install\" 20 48 6 > /tmp/selecttype.dialog
    for vpackages in `cat types`; do
     if [ "$typesexception" = ""] ; then
    echo \"$vpackages\" Role >> /tmp/selecttype.dialog;
     else
    if [ "selecttypechoice" = " product3 "] ; then      
      [ ./pro3types ]
    else
        echo $typesexception | grep -i "$vpackages"
        if [ $? = 0 ] ; then
          echo .
        else
          echo \"$vpackages\" Role >> /tmp/selecttype.dialog;
        fi
      fi
    fi
done;
        
    dialog --file /tmp/selecttype.dialog 2> /tmp/selecttype.choice
    if [ $? = 0 ] ; then
      export selecttypechoice=`cat /tmp/selecttype.choice`;
    else
      export -n selecttypechoice;
    fi
    reset
    echo selecttypechoice $selecttypechoice
    if [ "$selecttypechoice" = "" ] ; then
      echo Aborted: User Aborted while selecting a $installproductchoice Role
      echo .........Try again !!
      exit ;
    fi
  fi
fi