NAME

UI::Various::RichTerm::Main - concrete implementation of UI::Various::Main

SYNOPSIS

# This module should never be used directly!
# It is used indirectly via the following:
use UI::Various::Main;

ABSTRACT

This module is the specific implementation of the rich terminal UI. It manages and hides everything specific to it.

DESCRIPTION

The documentation of this module is only intended for developers of the package itself.

FUNCTIONS

_init - initialisation

UI::Various::RichTerm::Main::_init($self);

example:

$_ = UI::Various::core::ui . '::Main::_init';
{   no strict 'refs';   &$_($self);   }

parameters:

$self               reference to object of abstract parent class

description:

Set-up the rich terminal UI. (It's under FUNCTIONS as it's called before the object is re-blessed as UI::Various::RichTerm::Main.)

METHODS

mainloop - main event loop of an application

RichTerm's concrete implementation of UI::Various::Main::mainloop

readline - get readline input

$_ = $self->top->readline($prompt, $re_allowed, $initial_value);

parameters:

$self               reference to object
$prompt             string for the prompt
$re_allowed         regular expression for allowed values
$initial_value      initial value for input and flag for RL history

description:

Prompt for input and get line from Term::ReadLine. The line will be checked against the regular expression. Input is read over again until a valid input is obtained, which is then returned. If the optional initial value is set, it will be used passed as 2nd parameter to readline (PREPUT argument). It also activates storing a valid input in ReadLine's history.

returns:

valid input

SEE ALSO

UI::Various, UI::Various::Main

LICENSE

Copyright (C) Thomas Dorner.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See LICENSE file for more details.

AUTHOR

Thomas Dorner <dorner (at) cpan (dot) org>

cpanm UI::Various

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install UI::Various