NAME¶

Curses::UI::Dialog::Question - 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.

SEE ALSO¶

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

AUTHOR¶

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.