Curses::UI::Dialog::Basic

Section: User Contributed Perl Documentation (3)
Updated: 2018-09-20
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NAME

Curses::UI::Dialog::Basic - Create and manipulate basic dialogs

CLASS HIERARCHY

 Curses::UI::Widget
    |
    +----Curses::UI::Container
            |
            +----Curses::UI::Window
            |
            +----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!');

DESCRIPTION

Curses::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.

AUTHOR

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.