NAME

UI::Dialog::Console

SYNOPSIS

use UI::Dialog::Console;
my $d = new UI::Dialog::Console ( title => 'Default',
                                  height => 20, width => 65,
                                  listheight => 5 );

# Either a CDialog, Whiptail or ASCII msgbox widget should be displayed
# with a preference for CDialog.
$d->msgbox( title => 'Welcome!', text => 'Welcome one and all!' );

ABSTRACT

UI::Dialog::Console is simply another meta-class for UI::Dialog. This class simply has a different order of priority than UI::Dialog and no GUI support.

DESCRIPTION

This class is simply a nice way to try and ensure a Console based widget set.

EXPORT

None

INHERITS

UI::Dialog

CONSTRUCTOR

new( @options )

EXAMPLE

my $d = new( title => 'Default Title', backtitle => 'Backtitle',
             width => 65, height => 20, listheight => 5,
             order => [ 'cdialog', 'whiptail', 'ascii' ] );

DESCRIPTION

This is the Class Constructor method. It accepts a list of key => value pairs and uses them as the defaults when interacting with the various widgets.

RETURNS

A blessed object reference of the UI::Dialog::Console class.

OPTIONS

The (...)'s after each option indicate the default for the option.

debug = 0,1,2 (0)

order = [ kdialog, xdialog ] (as indicated)

PATH = [ /bin, /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin, /opt/bin ] (as indicated)

backtitle = "backtitle" ('')

title = "title" ('')

beepbefore = 0,1 (0)

beepafter = 0,1 (0)

height = \d+ (20)

width = \d+ (65)

listheight = \d+ (5)

SEE ALSO

PERLDOC

UI::Dialog
UI::Dialog::Backend
UI::Dialog::Backend::ASCII
UI::Dialog::Backend::CDialog
UI::Dialog::Backend::Whiptail

MAN FILES

dialog(1), whiptail(1)

BUGS

Please email the author with any bug reports. Include the name of the module in the subject line.

AUTHOR

Kevin C. Krinke, <kevin@krinke.ca>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2013  Kevin C. Krinke <kevin@krinke.ca>

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307 USA