Curses::UI::Dialog::BaUser3Contributed Perl DocumeCurses::UI::Dialog::Basic(3)NAMECurses::UI::Dialog::Basic - Create and manipulate basic dialogs
CLASS HIERARCHY
Curses::UI::Widget
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+----Curses::UI::Container
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+----Curses::UI::Window
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+----Curses::UI::Dialog::Basic
SYNOPSIS
use Curses::UI;
my $cui = new Curses::UI;
my $win = $cui->add('window_id', 'Window');
# The hard way.
# -------------
my $dialog = $win->add(
'mydialog', 'Dialog::Basic',
-message => 'Hello, world!'
);
$dialog->focus;
$win->delete('mydialog');
# The easy way (see Curses::UI documentation).
# --------------------------------------------
my $buttonvalue = $cui->dialog(-message => 'Hello, world!');
# or even
$cui->dialog('Hello, world!');
DESCRIPTIONCurses::UI::Dialog::Basic is a basic dialog. This type of dialog has a
message on it and one or more buttons. It can be used to show a message
to the user of your program ("The thingy has been updated") or to get
some kind of confirmation from the user ("Are you sure you want to
update the thingy?").
See exampes/demo-Curses::UI::Dialog::Basic in the distribution for a
short demo.
OPTIONS
· -title < TEXT >
Set the title of the dialog window to TEXT.
· -message < TEXT >
This option sets the message to show to TEXT. The text may contain
newline (\n) characters.
· -buttons < ARRAYREF >
· -selected < INDEX >
· -buttonalignment < VALUE >
These options sets the buttons that have to be used. For an
explanation of these options, see the Curses::UI::Buttonbox
documentation.
METHODS
· new ( HASH )
· layout ( )
· draw ( BOOLEAN )
· focus ( )
These are standard methods. See Curses::UI::Container for an
explanation of these.
· get ( )
This method will call get on the buttons object of the dialog and
return its returnvalue. See Curses::UI::Buttonbox for more
information on this.
SEE ALSO
Curses::UI, Curses::UI::Container, Curses::UI::Buttonbox
AUTHOR
Copyright (c) 2001-2002 Maurice Makaay. All rights reserved.
Maintained by Marcus Thiesen (marcus@cpan.thiesenweb.de)
This package is free software and is provided "as is" without express
or implied warranty. It may be used, redistributed and/or modified
under the same terms as perl itself.
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