Curses::UI::Dialog::Question - Pose a simple question to the user
Curses::UI::Widget | +----Curses::UI::Container | +----Curses::UI::Window | +----Curses::UI::Dialog::Question
use Curses::UI; my $cui = new Curses::UI; my $win = $cui->add('window_id', 'Window'); # The hard way. # ------------- my $dialog = $win->add( 'mydialog', 'Dialog::Question', -question => 'How super awesome are you?' ); $dialog->modalfocus; $win->delete('mydialog'); # The easy way (see Curses::UI documentation). # -------------------------------------------- my $value = $cui->question(-question => 'How super awesome are you?'); # or even my $awesomeness = $cui->question('How super awesome are you?');
Curses::UI::Dialog::Question is a basic question dialog. This type of dialog has a message on it, a TextEntry answer box, and one or more buttons. It can be used to have a user enter some answer in response to a question.
See exampes/demo-widgets in the distribution for a short demo.
-title < TEXT >
Set the title of the dialog window to TEXT.
-question < TEXT >
This option sets the question 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.
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 TextEntry object of the dialog and return its returnvalue. See Curses::UI::TextEntry for more information on this. If the cancel button was pressed, the return value will be undef.
Curses::UI, Curses::UI::Container, Curses::UI::Buttonbox
Copyright (c) 2004 Luke Closs <lukec@activestate.com>. 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.
To install Curses::UI, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Curses::UI
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Curses::UI
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.