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NAME

UI::Various::Curses::Main - concrete implementation of UI::Various::Main

SYNOPSIS

    # This module should never be used directly!
    # It is used indirectly via the following:
    use UI::Various::Main;

ABSTRACT

This module is the specific implementation of UI::Various::Main for Curses::UI. It manages and hides everything specific to Curses::UI.

DESCRIPTION

The documentation of this module is only intended for developers of the package itself.

FUNCTIONS

_init - initialisation

    UI::Various::Curses::Main::_init($self);

example:

    $_ = UI::Various::core::ui . '::Main::_init';
    {   no strict 'refs';   &$_($self);   }

parameters:

    $self               reference to object of abstract parent class

description:

Prepare the interface to Curses::UI. (It's under FUNCTIONS as it's called before the object is re-blessed as UI::Various::Curses::Main.)

METHODS

mainloop - main event loop of an application

Curses's concrete implementation of UI::Various::Main::mainloop

window - and new window to application

Curses's overload of UI::Various::Main::window. If the Mainloop of Curses::UI is running, we need to directly prepare and show the window / dialogue.

_focus - change focus to other top-level UI element

    $self->_focus($index);

parameters:

    $self               reference to object
    $index              -1/0/+1 index to select other top-level UI element

description:

Change the focus to previous (-1), next (+1) or newest (0) (probably) other top-level UI element.

SEE ALSO

UI::Various, UI::Various::Main

LICENSE

Copyright (C) Thomas Dorner.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See LICENSE file for more details.

AUTHOR

Thomas Dorner <dorner@cpan.org>