man Curses::UI::Dialog::Basic (3): 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 ([email protected])