NAME

Term::Size::Any - Retrieve terminal size

SYNOPSIS

# the traditional way
use Term::Size::Any qw( chars pixels );

($columns, $rows) = chars *STDOUT{IO};
($x, $y) = pixels;

DESCRIPTION

This is a unified interface to retrieve terminal size. It loads one module of a list of known alternatives, each implementing some way to get the desired terminal information. This loaded module will actually do the job on behalf of Term::Size::Any.

Thus, Term::Size::Any depends on the availability of one of these modules:

Term::Size           (soon to be supported)
Term::Size::Perl
Term::Size::ReadKey  (soon to be supported)
Term::Size::Win32

This release fallbacks to Term::Size::Win32 if running in Windows 32 systems. For other platforms, it uses the first of Term::Size::Perl, Term::Size or Term::Size::ReadKey which loads successfully. (To be honest, I disabled the fallback to Term::Size and Term::Size::ReadKey which are buggy by now.)

FUNCTIONS

The traditional interface is by importing functions chars and pixels into the caller's space.

chars

($columns, $rows) = chars($h);
$columns = chars($h);

chars returns the terminal size in units of characters corresponding to the given filehandle $h. If the argument is ommitted, *STDIN{IO} is used. In scalar context, it returns the terminal width.

pixels

($x, $y) = pixels($h);
$x = pixels($h);

pixels returns the terminal size in units of pixels corresponding to the given filehandle $h. If the argument is ommitted, *STDIN{IO} is used. In scalar context, it returns the terminal width.

Many systems with character-only terminals will return (0, 0).

SEE ALSO

It all began with Term::Size by Tim Goodwin. You may want to have a look at:

Term::Size
Term::Size::Perl
Term::Size::Win32
Term::Size::ReadKey

BUGS

Please reports bugs via CPAN RT, via web http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Term-Size-Any or e-mail to bug-Term-Size-Any@rt.cpan.org.

AUTHOR

Adriano R. Ferreira, <ferreira@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2008 by Adriano R. Ferreira

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.