Curses:...browser(3)

🌸 NAME 🌸

Okay bestie, welcome to the <rainbow>Curses:...browser(3)</rainbow> page — User Contributed Perl Documentation, fr fr. This is the manual for Curses::UI::Dialog::Dirbrowser: create and manipulate filebrowser dialogs. 💖

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🦋 CLASS HIERARCHY 🦋

The ancestry is giving main character energy, and it goes exactly like this:

        Curses::UI::Widget
           |
           +----Curses::UI::Container
                   |
                   +----Curses::UI::Window
                           |
                           +----Curses::UI::Dialog::Dirbrowser

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

Here's the whole vibe in code, bestie:

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

           # The hard way.
           # -------------
           my $dialog = $win->add(
               'mydialog', 'Dialog::Dirbrowser'
           );
           $dialog->focus;
           my $file = $dialog->get();
           $win->delete('mydialog');

           # The easy way (see Curses::UI documentation).
           # --------------------------------------------
           $file = $cui->filebrowser();
           $file = $cui->loadfilebrowser();
           $file = $cui->savefilebrowser();

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

Curses::UI::Dialog::Dirbrowser is a dirbrowser dialog. This type of dialog can be used to select a directory, anywhere on the filesystem. 🗂️

See exampes/demo-Curses::UI::Dialog::Dirbrowser in the distribution for a short demo. That path is literally exampes/..., iykyk. 🙈

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -title < TEXT > — Set the title of the dialog window to TEXT. ✨
• -path < PATH > — Set the path to start with to PATH. If this path does not exist, the filebrowser will start in the rootdirectory. 🫶
• -show_hidden < BOOLEAN > — If BOOLEAN has a true value, hidden files (the filename starts with a dot) will also be shown. By default this option is set to false. 👀

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🧚 METHODS 🧚

• new ( OPTIONS )
• layout ( )
• draw ( BOOLEAN )
• focus ( )

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

• get ( ) — This method will return the complete path to the file that was selected using the filebrowser. If no file was selected, this method will return an undefined value. 🦋

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🔥 SPECIAL BINDINGS 🔥

• escape — This will invoke the cancel button, so the filebrowser widget returns without selecting any file. 😭
• ~ — If the directory- or filelistbox of the dialog window has the focus and the tilde (~) button is pressed, the filebrowser will chdir to the homedirectory of the current user. 🧚

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Curses::UI
• Curses::UI::Container
• Curses::UI::Buttonbox

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Copyright tea and license facts, served fresh:

• 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.

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Sign-off, bestie: perl v5.42.2, dated 2023-07-03, page Curses:...browser(3) — that's the whole page, mwah 💋💖