Curses::UI::Dialog::Question - Pose a simple question to the user
Contents
Class Hierarchy
Curses::UI::Widget
|
+----Curses::UI::Container
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+----Curses::UI::Window
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+----Curses::UI::Dialog::Question
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.
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.
Name
Curses::UI::Dialog::Question - Pose a simple question to the user
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.
See Also
Curses::UI, Curses::UI::Container, Curses::UI::Buttonbox
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?');
