Curses:...ordEntry(3)

🎀 Curses::UI::PasswordEntry 🎀

okay so bestie 💖 you’re looking at the Curses:...ordEntry(3) page — the Curses::UI::PasswordEntry manpage from the User Contributed Perl Documentation. it’s giving “tiny widget, big main character energy” ✨

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💅 NAME 💅

Curses::UI::PasswordEntry — Create and manipulate passwordentry widgets 🎀

🦋 CLASS HIERARCHY 🦋

this widget’s family tree is iconic and very “iykyk” 👑

        Curses::UI::Widget
        Curses::UI::Searchable
           |
           +----Curses::UI::TextEditor
                   |
                   +----Curses::UI::TextEntry
                           |
                           +----Curses::UI::PasswordEntry

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

the whole “how do I even use this” moment, verbatim because bestie we do not mess with code 💅:

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

           my $passwordentry = $win->add(
               'mypasswordentry', 'PasswordEntry'
           );

           $passwordentry->focus();
           my $password = $passwordentry->get();

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Curses::UI::PasswordEntry is a widget that can be used to create a passwordentry widget. lowkey straightforward, highkey useful 🫶

This class is derived from Curses::UI::TextEntry. the one special thing about this class is that the -password option is forced to '*'. that’s the whole flex 💅

So for the usage of Curses::UI::PasswordEntry see Curses::UI::TextEntry. periodt ✨

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

the SEE ALSO crew is Curses::UI, Curses::UI::TextEntry, — go explore bestie 🌈

👑 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. 🫶

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