NAME

Fl::MultilineInput - Text Widget that Allows Editing of Multiline Text

Synopsis

use Fl;
my $input = Fl::MultilineInput->new(0, 0, 100, 200, 'Hello, World!');

Description

The Fl::MultilineInput class represents a widget that displays '\n' characters as new lines rather than ^J, and accepts the Return, Tab, and up and down arrow keys.

This is far from the nirvana of text editors, and is probably only good for small bits of text, 10 lines at most. Note that this widget does not support scrollbars or per-character color control.

If you are presenting large amounts of text and need scrollbars or full color control of characters, you probably want Fl::TextEditor instead.

Methods

Fl::MultilineInput inherits from Fl::Input and Fl::Widget. On top of that, it exposes the following methods...

new(...)

my $text_a = Fl::MultilineInput->new(0, 0, 250, 500, 'Important Stuff');
my $text_b = Fl::MultilineInput->new(0, 0, 250, 500);

The constructor creates a new widget using the given position, size, and label.

The widget's boxtype is FL_DOWN_BOX by default.

The destructor removes the widget.

LICENSE

Copyright (C) Sanko Robinson.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

AUTHOR

Sanko Robinson <sanko@cpan.org>