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 a direct call.

Validate TEXT_REF

The notification is called right before the text property is changed, either interactively or as a result of a 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, ignores the keyboard "kb::Left" and "kb::Right" commands, when these are received when the cursor is at the beginning or the end of text and cannot be moved farther. 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 the border around the widget.

Default value: depends on the skin

charOffset INTEGER

Managets the current position of the cursor

firstChar

Selects the first visible cluster of text

insertMode BOOLEAN

Manages 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 the 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 the text selection.

selEnd INTEGER

Selects the end of the 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). The cursor cannot go inside such clusters, and thus one can only select them, delete them as a whole, or press Del/Backspace on the cluster's edge.

Toggle during runtime with Ctrl+Shift+L.

wordDelimiters STRING

Contains the string of characters that are used for locating a word break. Default STRING value consists of punctuation marks, space, tab, 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 the background to red color. Can be used to signal an invalid input, f ex from "on_validate". %options allows the "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, values returned from the 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, the selection ranges of bidi text become not straightforward. Use the following methods whenever text manipulations are needed:

char_at OFFSET

Returns character at cluster OFFSET

selection_strpos

Returns range of characters covered by the selection.