man Curses::UI::Dialog::Question (3): Pose a simple question to the user

CLASS HIERARCHY

 Curses::UI::Widget
    |
    +----Curses::UI::Container
            |
            +----Curses::UI::Window
                    |
                    +----Curses::UI::Dialog::Question

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::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?');

DESCRIPTION

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.

OPTIONS

-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.

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 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.

AUTHOR

Maintained by Marcus Thiesen ([email protected])