Curses::UI::Calendar(3)

NAME
Curses::UI::Calendar - Create and manipulate calendar widgets

CLASS HIERARCHY
 Curses::UI::Widget
    |
    +----Curses::UI::Calendar

SYNOPSIS
    use Curses::UI;
    my $cui = new Curses::UI;
    my $win = $cui->add('window_id', 'Window');

    my $calendar = $win->add(
        'mycalendar', 'Calendar',
    -date    => '2002-1-14'
    );

    $calendar->focus();
    my $date = $calendar->get();

DESCRIPTION
Curses::UI::Calendar is a widget that can be used to create a calendar in which the user can select a date. The calendar widget looks like this:

  +----------------------+
  | mmm dd          yyyy |
  +----------------------+
  | su mo tu we th fr sa |
  |                      |
  |       01 02 03 04 05 |
  | 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 |
  | 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 |
  | 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 |
  | 27 28 29 30 31       |
  +----------------------+

See exampes/demo-Curses::UI::Calendar in the distribution for a short demo.

STANDARD OPTIONS
-parent, -x, -y, -width, -height, -pad, -padleft, -padright, -padtop, -padbottom, -ipad, -ipadleft, -ipadright, -ipadtop, -ipadbottom, -title, -titlefullwidth, -titlereverse, -onfocus, -onblur

For an explanation of these standard options, see Curses::UI::Widget.

Remark: -width and -height can be set, but this widget really want to have its content space at a minimum size. If your -width or -height is not large enough, the widget will automatically fix its value.

WIDGET-SPECIFIC OPTIONS

•   -date < DATE >

    This option sets the date to start with. If you do not specify a date, today's date will be used automatically. The format that you can use for this date is one of:

    * YYYY-M-D (e.g. 2002-1-10 or 2002-01-10)

    * YYYY/M/D (e.g. 2002/1/10 or 2002/01/10))

    * YYYYMMDD (e.g. 20020110)

    * D-M-YYYY (e.g. 10-1-2002 or 10/01/2002)

    * D/M/YYYY (e.g. 10/1/2002 or 10/01/2002)

•   -onchange < CODEREF >

    This sets the onChange event handler for the calendar widget. If a new date is selected, the code in CODEREF will be executed. It will get the widget reference as its argument.

•   -drawline < CODEREF >

    This option specifies whether or not a line should be drawn under the calendar.

METHODS

•   new ( OPTIONS )

•   layout ( )

•   draw ( BOOLEAN )

•   focus ( )

•   onFocus ( CODEREF )

•   onBlur ( CODEREF )

•   intellidraw ( )

    These are standard methods. See Curses::UI::Widget for an explanation of these.

•   get ( )

    This method will return the currently selected date in the format 'YYYY-MM-DD'.

•   setdate ( DATE, [BOOLEAN] )

    Set the selected date of the widget to DATE. See -date above for the possible formats. The widget will redraw itself, unless BOOLEAN has a true value.

•   onChange ( CODEREF )

    This method can be used to set the -onchange event handler (see above) after initialization of the calendar.

DEFAULT BINDINGS

•   <tab>

    Call the 'loose-focus' routine. This will have the menubar loose its focus and return the value 'LOOSE_FOCUS' to the calling routine.

•   <enter>, <space>

    Call the 'date-select' routine. This will select the date on which the cursor is.

•   <cursor-left>, <h>

    Call the 'date-prevday' routine. This will have the date cursor go back one day.

•   <cursor-right, <l>

    Call the 'date-nextday' routine. This will have the date cursor go forward one day.

•   <cursor-down>, <j>

    Call the 'date-nextweek' routine. This will have the date cursor go forward one week.

•   <cursor-up>, <k>

    Call the 'date-prevweek' routine. This will have the date cursor go back one week.

•   <page-up>, <SHIFT+K>

    Call the 'date-prevmonth' routine. This will have the date cursor go back one month.

•   <page-down>, <SHIFT+J>

    Call the 'date-nextmonth' routine. This will have the date cursor go forward one month.

•   <p>, <SHIFT+H>

    Call the 'date-prevyear' routine. This will have the date cursor go back one year.

•   <n>, <SHIFT+L>

    Call the 'date-nextyear' routine. This will have the date cursor go forward one year.

•   <home>, <CTRL+A>, <c>

    Call the 'date-selected' routine. This will have the date cursor go to the current selected date.

•   <t>

    Call the 'date-today' routine. This will have the date cursor go to today's date.

SEE ALSO
Curses::UI, Curses::UI::Widget, Curses::UI::Common

AUTHOR
Copyright (c) 2001-2002 Maurice Makaay. All rights reserved.

Maintained by Marcus Thiesen (marcus@cpan.thiesenweb.de)

This package is free software and is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty. It may be used, redistributed and/or modified under the same terms as perl itself.