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NAME

Curses::UI::Progressbar - Create and manipulate progressbar widgets

CLASS HIERARCHY

Curses::UI::Widget
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+----Curses::UI::Progressbar

SYNOPSIS

my $cui = new Curses::UI;
my $win = $cui->add('window_id', 'Window');
my $progressbar = $win->add(
'myprogressbar', 'Progressbar',
-max => 250,
-pos => 42,
);
$progressbar->draw;

DESCRIPTION

Curses::UI::Progressbar is a widget that can be used to provide some sort of progress information to the user of your program. The progressbar looks like this:

+------------------------------------------+
|||||||||---------- 14% ------------------ |
+------------------------------------------+

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

STANDARD OPTIONS

-parent, -x, -y, -width, -height, -pad, -padleft, -padright, -padtop, -padbottom, -ipad, -ipadleft, -ipadright, -ipadtop, -ipadbottom, -title, -titlefullwidth, -titlereverse

For an explanation of these standard options, see Curses::UI::Widget.

WIDGET-SPECIFIC OPTIONS

  • -min < VALUE >

    This opion sets the minimum value for the progress bar. Default is 0.

  • -max < VALUE >

    This opion sets the maximum value for the progress bar.

  • -pos < VALUE >

    This option sets the startposition for the progress bar.

  • -nopercentage < BOOLEAN >

    This option controls if a percentage indicator should be drawn in the widget. The default for the BOOLEAN value is false, so a percentage incdicator will be drawn.

  • -showvalue < BOOLEAN >

    If this option is set to a true value, the current position value will be drawn in the widget.

  • -nocenterline < BOOLEAN >

    This option controls if a horizontal line should be drawn in the widget. The default for the BOOLEAN value is false, so a horizontal line will be drawn.

METHODS

  • new ( OPTIONS )

  • layout ( )

  • draw ( BOOLEAN )

  • intellidraw ( )

  • focus ( )

    These are standard methods. See Curses::UI::Widget for an explanation of these.

  • get ( )

    This method will return the current -pos value of the widget.

  • pos ( VALUE )

    This method will set the -pos value of the widget to SCALAR.

DEFAULT BINDINGS

Since a Progressbar is a non-interacting widget, it does not have any bindings.

SEE ALSO

Curses::UI, Curses::UI::Widget, Curses::UI::Common

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.