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 < \s-1TEXT\s0 > Set the title of the dialog window to \s-1TEXT\s0.

  • -question < \s-1TEXT\s0 > This option sets the question to show to \s-1TEXT\s0. The text may contain newline (\n) characters.

  • -buttons < \s-1ARRAYREF\s0 >

  • -selected < \s-1INDEX\s0 >

  • -buttonalignment < \s-1VALUE\s0 > These options sets the buttons that have to be used. For an explanation of these options, see the Curses::UI::Buttonbox documentation.

METHODS

  • new ( \s-1HASH\s0 )

  • layout ( )

  • draw ( \s-1BOOLEAN\s0 )

  • 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.

RELATED TO Curses::UI::Dialog::Question…

Curses::UI, Curses::UI::Container, Curses::UI::Buttonbox

AUTHOR

Copyright (c) 2004 Luke Closs <[email protected]>. All rights reserved.

Maintained by Marcus Thiesen ([email protected])

This package is free software and is provided \*(L"as is\*(R" without express or implied warranty. It may be used, redistributed and/or modified under the same terms as perl itself.