Curses::UI::Dialog::Status(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Curses::UI::Dialog::Status(3)

Curses::UI::Dialog::Status - Create and manipulate status dialogs

Curses::UI::Widget
   |
   +----Curses::UI::Container
           |
           +----Curses::UI::Window
                   |
                   +----Curses::UI::Dialog::Status

use Curses::UI;
my $cui = new Curses::UI;
my $win = $cui->add('window_id', 'Window');
# The hard way.
# -------------
my $dialog = $win->add(
    'mydialog', 'Dialog::Status',
-message   => 'Hello, world!',
);
$dialog->draw();
$win->delete('mydialog');
# The easy way (see Curses::UI documentation).
# --------------------------------------------
$cui->status( -message => 'Some message' );
# or even:
$cui->status( 'Some message' );
$cui->nostatus;

Curses::UI::Dialog::Status is not really a dialog, since the user has no way of interacting with it. It is merely a way of presenting status information to the user of your program.

See exampes/demo-Curses::UI::Dialog::Status in the distribution for a short demo.

  • -title < TEXT >

    Set the title of the dialog window to TEXT.

  • -message < TEXT >

    This option sets the initial message to show to TEXT.

  • new ( OPTIONS )
  • layout ( )
  • draw ( BOOLEAN )

    These are standard methods. See Curses::UI::Container for an explanation of these.

  • message ( TEXT )

    This method will update the message of the status dialog to TEXT. For this update to show, you will have to call the draw method of the progress dialog.

Curses::UI, Curses::UI::Container

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Maintained by Marcus Thiesen (marcus@cpan.thiesenweb.de)

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2023-07-25 perl v5.38.0