Prima::InputLine(3)
NAME
Prima::InputLine - standard input line widget
DESCRIPTION
The class provides basic functionality of an input line, including
hidden input, read-only state, selection, and clipboard operations. The
input line text data is contained in text property.
API
- Events
- Change
The notification is called when the text property is changed,
either interactively or as a result of direct call. - Properties
- alignment INTEGER
One of the following "ta::" constants, defining the text alignment:
ta::Left
ta::Right
ta::Center - Default value: "ta::Left"
- autoHeight BOOLEAN
- If 1, adjusts the height of the widget automatically when its font changes.
- Default value: 1
- autoSelect BOOLEAN
- If 1, all the text is selected when the widget becomes focused.
- Default value: 1
- autoTab BOOLEAN
- If 1, the keyboard "kb::Left" and "kb::Right" commands, if received
when the cursor is at the beginning or at the end of text, and
cannot be mover farther, not processed. The result of this is that the default handler moves focus to a neighbor widget, in a way as
if the Tab key was pressed. - Default value: 0
- borderWidth INTEGER
- Width of 3d-shade border around the widget.
- Default value: 2
- charOffset INTEGER
- Selects the position of the cursor in characters starting from the beginning of text.
- firstChar
- Selects the first visible character of text
- insertMode BOOLEAN
- Governs the typing mode - if 1, the typed text is inserted, if 0,
the text overwrites the old text. When "insertMode" is 0, the
cursor shape is thick and covers the whole character; when 1, it is of default width. - Default toggle key: Insert
- maxLen INTEGER
- The maximal length of the text, that can be stored into text or
typed by the user. - Default value: 256
- passwordChar CHARACTER
- A character to be shown instead of the text letters when writeOnly property value is 1.
- Default value: '*'
- readOnly BOOLEAN
- If 1, the text cannot be edited by the user.
- Default value: 0
- selection START, END
- Two integers, specifying the beginning and the end of the selected text. A case with no selection is when START equals END.
- selStart INTEGER
- Selects the start of text selection.
- selEnd INTEGER
- Selects the end of text selection.
- textRef SCALAR_REF
- If not undef, contains reference to the scalar that holds the text
of the input line. All changes to ::text property are reflected
there. The direct write access to the scalar is not recommended
because it leaves internal structures inconsistent, and the only
way to synchronize structures is to set-call either ::textRef or
::text after every such change. - If undef, the internal text container is used.
- Default value: undef
- wordDelimiters STRING
- Contains string of character that are used for locating a word
break. Default STRING value consists of punctuation marks, space
and tab characters, and "\xff" character. - writeOnly BOOLEAN
- If 1, the input is not shown but mapped to passwordChar characters. Useful for a password entry.
- Default value: 0
- Methods
- copy
Copies the selected text, if any, to the clipboard.Default key: Ctrl+Insert
- cut Cuts the selected text into the clipboard.
Default key: Shift+Delete - delete
Removes the selected text.Default key: Delete
- paste
Copies text from the clipboard and inserts it in the cursor
position.Default key: Shift+Insert - select_all
Selects all text
AUTHOR
Dmitry Karasik, <dmitry@karasik.eu.org>.
SEE ALSO
- Prima, Prima::Widget, examples/edit.pl.