NAME

Net::Hotline::User - User object used internally by Net::Hotline::Client

SYNOPSIS

use Net::Hotline::User;

$user = new Net::Hotline::User;
$user->nick("joe blow");
$user->icon(128);

print "Nick: ", $user->nick(), "\n";
...

DESCRIPTION

Net::Hotline::User is a simple class for storing and retrieving user information, You should never have to create your own Net::Hotline::User objects when using Net::Hotline::Client. Getting and setting attributes is all that should be necessary.

CONSTRUCTION

new SOCKET, NICK, LOGIN, ICON, COLOR

With no arguments, creates a new Net::Hotline::User object with all attributes set to undef. The other option is to supply exactly 5 arguments as listed above.

METHODS

All the Net::Hotline::User methods are simple attribute get/set routines. If given an argument, they set an attribute. In all cases, they return the current value of the attribute.

color NUMBER

The color of the user in the userlist. Values are numbers from 0 to 3. The hash HTLC_COLORS defined in Net::Hotline::Constants contains number to name color mappings (i.e. $HTLC_COLORS{2} is "red"). Example:

use Net::Hotline::Constants qw(HTLC_COLORS);
...
print $user->nick(), " is ", $HTLC_COLORS{$user->color()}, "\n";

icon NUMBER

The user's icon number. Negative values are accepted.

info TEXT

User information as a block of "pretty-formatted" text.

login TEXT

The user's login name.

nick TEXT

The user's nickname in the userlist.

socket NUMBER

The user's unique socket number. User's are assigned a socket number whenthey connect to a Hotline server.

AUTHOR

John C. Siracusa (siracusa@mindspring.com)

COPYRIGHT

Copyright(c) 1999 by John Siracusa. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.