Curses::UI::Dialog::Calendar (3)

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NAME

Curses::UI::Dialog::Calendar - Create and manipulate calendar dialogs

CLASS HIERARCHY

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

SYNOPSIS

    use Curses::UI;
    my $cui = new Curses::UI;
    my $win = $cui->add('window_id', 'Window');

    # The hard way.
    # -------------
    my $dialog = $win->add(
        'mydialog', 'Dialog::Calendar'
    );
    $dialog->modalfocus;
    $win->delete('mydialog');
    my $date = $dialog->get();

    # The easy way (see Curses::UI documentation).
    # --------------------------------------------
    $date = $cui->calendardialog();

DESCRIPTION

Curses::UI::Dialog::Calendar is a calendar dialog. This type of dialog can be used to select a date.

See exampes/demo-widgets in the distribution for a short demo.

OPTIONS

*

-title <

TEXT

>

Set the title of the dialog window to

TEXT

.

*

-date <

DATE

>

Set the date to start with to

DATE

. If -date is not defined, today will be used as the startdate.

METHODS

*

new (

OPTIONS

)

*

layout ( )

*

draw (

BOOLEAN

)

*

focus ( )

*

modalfocus ( )

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

*

get ( )

This method will return the date that was selected or undef if no date was selected.

SPECIAL BINDINGS

*

escape

This will invoke the cancel button, so the calendar dialog returns without selecting any date.

SEE ALSO

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

AUTHOR

Copyright (c) 2001-2002 Maurice Makaay. All rights reserved.

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

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.