NAME

Tk::Getopt - User configuration window for Tk with interface to Getopt::Long

SYNOPSIS

    use Tk::Getopt;
    @opttable = (['opt1', '=s', 'default'], ['opt2', '!', 1], ...);
    $opt = new Tk::Getopt(-opttable => \@opttable,
                          -options => \%options,
			  -filename => "$ENV{HOME}/.options");
    $opt->load_options;
    $opt->get_options;
    $opt->process_options;
    print $options->{'opt1'}, $options->{'opt2'} ...;
    ...
    $top = new MainWindow;
    $opt->option_editor($top);

or using a Getopt::Long-like interface

    $opt = new Tk::Getopt(-getopt => ['help'   => \$HELP,
				      'file:s' => \$FILE,
				      'foo!'   => \$FOO,
				      'num:i'  => \$NO,
				     ]);

or an alternative Getopt::Long interface

    %optctl = ('foo' => \$foo,
	       'bar' => \$bar);
    $opt = new Tk::Getopt(-getopt => [\%optctl, "foo!", "bar=s"]);

DESCRIPTION

Tk::Getopt provides an interface to access command line options via Getopt::Long and editing with a graphical user interface via a Tk window.

Unlike Getopt::Long, this package uses a object oriented interface, so you have to create a new Tk::Getopt object with new. Unlike other packages in the Tk hierarchy, this package does not define a Tk widget. The graphical interface is calles by the method option_editor.

After creating an object with new, you can parse command line options by calling get_options. This method calls itself Getopt::Long::GetOptions.

REQUIREMENTS

You need at least:

• perl5.004 (perl5.003 near 5.004 may work too, e.g perl5.003_26)

• Tk400.202 (better: Tk800.007) (only if you want the GUI)

• Data-Dumper-2.07 (only if you want to save options and it's anyway standard in perl5.005)

INSTALLATION

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

AUTHOR

Slaven Rezic <eserte@cs.tu-berlin.de>

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