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.IX Title "Curses::UI::Dialog::Question 3"
.TH Curses::UI::Dialog::Question 3 2023-07-25 "perl v5.38.0" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
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.SH NAME
Curses::UI::Dialog::Question \- Pose a simple question to the user
.SH "CLASS HIERARCHY"
.IX Header "CLASS HIERARCHY"
.Vb 7
\& Curses::UI::Widget
\&    |
\&    +\-\-\-\-Curses::UI::Container
\&            |
\&            +\-\-\-\-Curses::UI::Window
\&                    |
\&                    +\-\-\-\-Curses::UI::Dialog::Question
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.SH SYNOPSIS
.IX Header "SYNOPSIS"
.Vb 3
\&    use Curses::UI;
\&    my $cui = new Curses::UI;
\&    my $win = $cui\->add(\*(Aqwindow_id\*(Aq, \*(AqWindow\*(Aq);
\&
\&    # The hard way.
\&    # \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-
\&    my $dialog = $win\->add(
\&        \*(Aqmydialog\*(Aq, \*(AqDialog::Question\*(Aq,
\&        \-question   => \*(AqHow super awesome are you?\*(Aq
\&    );
\&    $dialog\->modalfocus;
\&    $win\->delete(\*(Aqmydialog\*(Aq);
\&
\&    # The easy way (see Curses::UI documentation).
\&    # \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-
\&    my $value = $cui\->question(\-question => \*(AqHow super awesome are you?\*(Aq);
\&
\&    # or even
\&    my $awesomeness = $cui\->question(\*(AqHow super awesome are you?\*(Aq);
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.SH DESCRIPTION
.IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
Curses::UI::Dialog::Question is a basic question dialog. This type of
dialog has a message on it, a TextEntry answer box, and one or more 
buttons. It can be used to have a user enter some answer in response
to a question.
.PP
See exampes/demo\-widgets in the distribution for a short demo.
.SH OPTIONS
.IX Header "OPTIONS"
.IP \(bu 4
\&\fB\-title\fR < TEXT >
.Sp
Set the title of the dialog window to TEXT.
.IP \(bu 4
\&\fB\-question\fR < TEXT >
.Sp
This option sets the question to show to TEXT. The text may
contain newline (\en) characters.
.IP \(bu 4
\&\fB\-buttons\fR < ARRAYREF >
.IP \(bu 4
\&\fB\-selected\fR < INDEX >
.IP \(bu 4
\&\fB\-buttonalignment\fR < VALUE >
.Sp
These options sets the buttons that have to be used. For an
explanation of these options, see the
Curses::UI::Buttonbox documentation.
.SH METHODS
.IX Header "METHODS"
.IP \(bu 4
\&\fBnew\fR ( HASH )
.IP \(bu 4
\&\fBlayout\fR ( )
.IP \(bu 4
\&\fBdraw\fR ( BOOLEAN )
.IP \(bu 4
\&\fBfocus\fR ( )
.Sp
These are standard methods. See Curses::UI::Container
for an explanation of these.
.IP \(bu 4
\&\fBget\fR ( )
.Sp
This method will call \fBget\fR on the TextEntry object of the dialog
and return its returnvalue. See Curses::UI::TextEntry for more 
information on this.  If the cancel button was pressed, the return 
value will be undef.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IX Header "SEE ALSO"
Curses::UI,
Curses::UI::Container,
Curses::UI::Buttonbox
.SH AUTHOR
.IX Header "AUTHOR"
Copyright (c) 2004 Luke Closs <lukec@activestate.com>. All rights reserved.
.PP
Maintained by Marcus Thiesen (marcus@cpan.thiesenweb.de)
.PP
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.