Dear reader(s), I would like to register as a perl developer. Here is the requested information:
Name: Maurice Makaay E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.gitaar.net/ (Dutch) User-ID: MMAKAAY What I would like to contribute to CPAN is my collection of Curses based user interface modules (Curses::MWS::*) (MWS = Maurice's Widget Set). Using these modules it's quite easy to create curses based applications in perl. Currently I have the following modules (and more modules are planned). I'll try to provide a little explanation for each of them: Curses::MWS::Frame A frame widget that can handle positioning, border drawing, internal- and external padding Curses::MWS::Common Common methods for all widgets Curses::MWS::Container A frame containing a widget collection. A container will automatically take care of focusing the right widgets, so it's easy to create a form with it. NOTE: You'll mostly use the Window widget, which is a descendant of Container. Curses::MWS::RootWindow A curses window in which all work is done Curses::MWS::Window A curses window that can be added to the RootWindow Curses::MWS::Buttons A buttonbar Curses::MWS::CheckBox A checkbox Curses::MWS::Dialog A dialogbox (message + buttons popup) Curses::MWS::ErrorDialog An error dialogbox (with an ascii drawn exclamation mark sign :-) Curses::MWS::FileBrowser A widget to select a file, including filemasks and filename-editing Curses::MWS::Label A simple textlabel Curses::MWS::ListBox A listbox / optionlist with integrated search functionality (like 'less' does) Curses::MWS::MenuBar A menubar on top of the screen Curses::MWS::MenuListBox Used internally by MenuBar. Using the MenuBar it's possible to create menu's for your application. Each menu can have one or more submenu's Curses::MWS::PopupBox A pulldown menu Curses::MWS::ProgressBar A progress bar Curses::MWS::RadioButtonBox A list of radiobuttons Curses::MWS::SearchEntry Used by ListBox and TextViewer for searching Curses::MWS::Searchable Used by LIstBox and TextViewer for searching Curses::MWS::TextEditor A texteditor widget including wrapping, undo, hard return viewing Curses::MWS::TextEntry A single line of textinput Curses::MWS::TextViewer A viewer for textfiles with integrated search functionality (like 'less' does) One of the great features of this widget set, is that an application that is build with it will be automaticalliy resizeable! That was the main reason for me to build my own widget set. I couldn't find an easy solution for building curses based applications that could do that. In Curses::MWS all widgets have their own layout() method and the RootWindow will recursively call this method for all widgets if the window is resized. I haven't used any of the ncurses specific functions, so these modules will work correctly with standard curses (for example curses on Sun Solaris systems). If you have any questions, I'll be happy to answer them. With kind regards, Maurice Makaay System Administrator
