SYNOPSIS¶

        use Prima qw(InputLine Application);
        Prima::InputLine-> new( text => 'Hello world!');
        run Prima;

Events¶

Change

The notification is called when the text property is changed, either interactively or as a result of direct call.

Validate TEXT_REF

The notification is called right before the text property is changed, either interactively or as a result of direct call. The custom code has a chance to validate the text and/or provide some sort of interactive feedback.

See also: "blink"

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

charOffset gets the current position of the cursor charOffset N sets the cursor at position N

firstChar

Selects the first visible cluster 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, in clusters. 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.

textDirection BOOLEAN

If set, indicates RTL text input.

textLigation BOOLEAN

If set, text may be rendered at better quality with ligation and kerning, however that comes with a price that some ligatures may be indivisible and form clusters (f.ex. ff or ffi ligatures). Cursor cannot go inside of such clusters, and thus one can only select them, delete as whole, or press Del/Backspace on the cluster's edge.

Toggle during runtime with Ctrl+Shift+L.

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¶

blink %options

Produces a short blink by setting background to red color. Can be used to signal invalid input, f ex from "on_validate". %options allows "backColor" and "color" entries.

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

Bi-directional input and output¶

When working on bidirectional texts, or text represented by complex script shaping, methods "firstChar", "charOffset", "selection" etc cannot be used to calculate text offsets f.ex. via "substr". Note that these values are in clusters, not in characters (see Prima::Drawable::Glyphs for the description>. Also, selection ranges of bidi text become not straighforward. Use the following methods whenever text manipulations are needed:

char_at OFFSET

Returns character at OFFSET

selection_strpos

Returns range of characters covered by the selection.