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UI::Dialog::Console(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation UI::Dialog::Console(3pm)

NAME

UI::Dialog::Console - console meta-class for UI::Dialog.

SYNOPSIS

  use UI::Dialog::Console;
  my $d = new UI::Dialog::Console ( title => 'Default',
                                    height => 20, width => 65,
                                    listheight => 5 );
  # Either a CDialog, Whiptail or ASCII msgbox widget should be displayed
  # with a preference for CDialog.
  $d->msgbox( title => 'Welcome!', text => 'Welcome one and all!' );

ABSTRACT

UI::Dialog::Console is simply another meta-class for UI::Dialog. This class simply has a different order of priority than UI::Dialog and no GUI support.

DESCRIPTION

This class is simply a nice way to try and ensure a Console based widget set.

EXPORT

None

INHERITS

UI::Dialog

CONSTRUCTOR

new( @options )

 my $d = new( title => 'Default Title', backtitle => 'Backtitle',
              width => 65, height => 20, listheight => 5,
              order => [ 'cdialog', 'whiptail', 'ascii' ] );
DESCRIPTION
This is the Class Constructor method. It accepts a list of key => value pairs and uses them as the defaults when interacting with the various widgets.
A blessed object reference of the UI::Dialog::Console class.
The (...)'s after each option indicate the default for the option.

SEE ALSO

 UI::Dialog
 UI::Dialog::Backend
 UI::Dialog::Backend::ASCII
 UI::Dialog::Backend::CDialog
 UI::Dialog::Backend::Whiptail
    
 dialog(1), whiptail(1)

BUGS

Please email the author with any bug reports. Include the name of the module in the subject line.

AUTHOR

Kevin C. Krinke, <kevin@krinke.ca>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

 Copyright (C) 2004-2016  Kevin C. Krinke <kevin@krinke.ca>
 This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
 License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
 version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
 Lesser General Public License for more details.
 You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
 License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
 Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307 USA
2018-10-27 perl v5.26.2