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Curses::UI::Dialog::BaUser3Contributed Perl DocumeCurses::UI::Dialog::Basic(3)

NAME
       Curses::UI::Dialog::Basic - Create and manipulate basic dialogs

CLASS HIERARCHY
	Curses::UI::Widget
	   |
	   +----Curses::UI::Container
		   |
		   +----Curses::UI::Window
		   |
		   +----Curses::UI::Dialog::Basic

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::Basic',
	   -message   => 'Hello, world!'
	   );
	   $dialog->focus;
	   $win->delete('mydialog');

	   # The easy way (see Curses::UI documentation).
	   # --------------------------------------------
	   my $buttonvalue = $cui->dialog(-message => 'Hello, world!');

	   # or even
	   $cui->dialog('Hello, world!');

DESCRIPTION
       Curses::UI::Dialog::Basic is a basic dialog. This type of dialog has a
       message on it and one or more buttons. It can be used to show a message
       to the user of your program ("The thingy has been updated") or to get
       some kind of confirmation from the user ("Are you sure you want to
       update the thingy?").

       See exampes/demo-Curses::UI::Dialog::Basic in the distribution for a
       short demo.

OPTIONS
       ·   -title < TEXT >

	   Set the title of the dialog window to TEXT.

       ·   -message < TEXT >

	   This option sets the message 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 buttons object of the dialog and
	   return its returnvalue. See Curses::UI::Buttonbox for more
	   information on this.

SEE ALSO
       Curses::UI, Curses::UI::Container, Curses::UI::Buttonbox

AUTHOR
       Copyright (c) 2001-2002 Maurice Makaay. 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.

perl v5.14.1			  2008-12-21	  Curses::UI::Dialog::Basic(3)

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