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.IX Title "Curses::UI::Dialog::Basic 3"
.TH Curses::UI::Dialog::Basic 3 "2011-09-01" "perl v5.16.3" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
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.SH "NAME"
Curses::UI::Dialog::Basic \- Create and manipulate basic dialogs
.SH "CLASS HIERARCHY"
.IX Header "CLASS HIERARCHY"
.Vb 7
\& Curses::UI::Widget
\&    |
\&    +\-\-\-\-Curses::UI::Container
\&            |
\&            +\-\-\-\-Curses::UI::Window
\&            |
\&            +\-\-\-\-Curses::UI::Dialog::Basic
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.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.IX Header "SYNOPSIS"
.Vb 3
\&    use Curses::UI;
\&    my $cui = new Curses::UI;
\&    my $win = $cui\->add(\*(Aqwindow_id\*(Aq, \*(AqWindow\*(Aq);
\&
\&    # The hard way.
\&    # \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-
\&    my $dialog = $win\->add(
\&        \*(Aqmydialog\*(Aq, \*(AqDialog::Basic\*(Aq,
\&    \-message   => \*(AqHello, world!\*(Aq
\&    );
\&    $dialog\->focus;
\&    $win\->delete(\*(Aqmydialog\*(Aq);
\&
\&    # The easy way (see Curses::UI documentation).
\&    # \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-
\&    my $buttonvalue = $cui\->dialog(\-message => \*(AqHello, world!\*(Aq);
\&
\&    # or even
\&    $cui\->dialog(\*(AqHello, world!\*(Aq);
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.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.IX Header "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
(\*(L"The thingy has been updated\*(R") or to get some kind of 
confirmation from the user (\*(L"Are you sure you want to
update the thingy?\*(R").
.PP
See exampes/demo\-Curses::UI::Dialog::Basic in the distribution
for a short demo.
.SH "OPTIONS"
.IX Header "OPTIONS"
.IP "\(bu" 4
\&\fB\-title\fR < \s-1TEXT \s0>
.Sp
Set the title of the dialog window to \s-1TEXT.\s0
.IP "\(bu" 4
\&\fB\-message\fR < \s-1TEXT \s0>
.Sp
This option sets the message to show to \s-1TEXT.\s0 The text may
contain newline (\en) characters.
.IP "\(bu" 4
\&\fB\-buttons\fR < \s-1ARRAYREF \s0>
.IP "\(bu" 4
\&\fB\-selected\fR < \s-1INDEX \s0>
.IP "\(bu" 4
\&\fB\-buttonalignment\fR < \s-1VALUE \s0>
.Sp
These options sets the buttons that have to be used. For an
explanation of these options, see the 
Curses::UI::Buttonbox documentation.
.SH "METHODS"
.IX Header "METHODS"
.IP "\(bu" 4
\&\fBnew\fR ( \s-1HASH \s0)
.IP "\(bu" 4
\&\fBlayout\fR ( )
.IP "\(bu" 4
\&\fBdraw\fR ( \s-1BOOLEAN \s0)
.IP "\(bu" 4
\&\fBfocus\fR ( )
.Sp
These are standard methods. See Curses::UI::Container 
for an explanation of these.
.IP "\(bu" 4
\&\fBget\fR ( )
.Sp
This method will call \fBget\fR on the buttons object of the dialog
and return its returnvalue. See Curses::UI::Buttonbox
for more information on this.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IX Header "SEE ALSO"
Curses::UI, 
Curses::UI::Container, 
Curses::UI::Buttonbox
.SH "AUTHOR"
.IX Header "AUTHOR"
Copyright (c) 2001\-2002 Maurice Makaay. All rights reserved.
.PP
Maintained by Marcus Thiesen (marcus@cpan.thiesenweb.de)
.PP
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.