NAME
Mac::Choose - make a choice with the choose command line util
SYNOPSIS
use Mac::Choose qw(choose);
my $color = choose qw(
red
orange
yellow
green
blue
indigo
violet
) or die "User canceled selection";DESCRIPTION
choose is a commerical commandline utility for OS X from Tiny Robot Software that shows a simple fuzzy-matching GUI for selecting from one of several options.
http://tinyrobotsoftware.com/choose/This module is a really really thin wrapper around it that handles the shelling out to the process via IPC::Open2.
Function
This module exports one function on request, or you can call it fully qualified.
- choose @possibilities
-
Shows the GUI allowing the user to pick from the possibilities. Returns the selected option, or undef if the user canceled the selection (by hitting ESC / clicking outside the dialog.)
Configuring
This module assumes that the choose command line executable has been downloaded and installed in your path. If you've installed choose somewhere outside of your path, you can use the $Mac::Choose::executable_path to override the path to the executable.
local $Mac::Choose::executable_path = "/stuff/bin/choose";
my $char = choose "Buffy","Willow","Xander","Tara","Oz";BUGS
Bugs (and requests for new features) can be reported though the CPAN RT system: http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Mac-Choose
Alternatively, you can simply fork this project on github and send me pull requests. Please see http://github.com/2shortplanks/Mac-Choose
AUTHOR
Written by Mark Fowler <mark@twoshortplanks.com>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright Mark Fowler 2014. All Rights Reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
The choose command line utility itself is copyright Tiny Robot Software. Neither Mark Fowler nor this Perl library is associated with the choose command line utility or Tiny Robot Software.