1Prima(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Prima(3)
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6 Prima - a perl graphic toolkit
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9 use Prima qw(Application Buttons);
10 Prima::MainWindow->new(
12 text => 'Hello world!',
13 size => [ 200, 200],
14 )-> insert( Button =>
15 centered => 1,
16 text => 'Hello world!',
17 onClick => sub { $::application-> close },
18 );
19 run Prima;
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23 The toolkit is combined from two basic set of classes - core and
24 external. The core classes are coded in C and form a base line for
25 every Prima object written in perl. The usage of C is possible together
26 with the toolkit; however, its full power is revealed in the perl
27 domain. The external classes present easily expandable set of widgets,
28 written completely in perl and communicating with the system using
29 Prima library calls.
30 The core classes form an hierarchy, which is displayed below:
32 Prima::Object
34 Prima::Component
35 Prima::AbstractMenu
36 Prima::AccelTable
37 Prima::Menu
38 Prima::Popup
39 Prima::Clipboard
40 Prima::Drawable
41 Prima::DeviceBitmap
42 Prima::Printer
43 Prima::Image
44 Prima::Icon
45 Prima::File
46 Prima::Region
47 Prima::Timer
48 Prima::Widget
49 Prima::Application
50 Prima::Window
51 The external classes are derived from these; the list of widget classes
53 can be found below in "SEE ALSO".
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56 The very basic code shown in "SYNOPSIS" is explained here. The code
57 creates a window with 'Hello, world' title and a centered button with
58 the same text. The program terminates after the button is pressed.
59 A basic construct for a program written with Prima obviously requires
61 use Prima;
63 code; however, the effective programming requires usage of the other
65 modules, for example, "Prima::Buttons", which contains set of button
66 widgets. "Prima.pm" module can be invoked with a list of such modules,
67 which makes the construction
68 use Prima;
70 use Prima::Application;
71 use Prima::Buttons;
72 shorter by using the following scheme:
74 use Prima qw(Application Buttons);
76 Another basic issue is the event loop, which is called by
78 run Prima;
80 sentence and requires a "Prima::Application" object to be created
82 beforehand. Invoking "Prima::Application" standard module is one of
83 the possible ways to create an application object. The program usually
84 terminates after the event loop is finished.
85 The window is created by invoking
87 Prima::MainWindow->new();
89 or
91 Prima::MainWindow-> create()
93 code with the additional parameters. Actually, all Prima objects are
95 created by such a scheme. The class name is passed as the first
96 parameter, and a custom set of parameters is passed afterwards. These
97 parameters are usually represented in a hash syntax, although actually
98 passed as an array. The hash syntax is preferred for the code
99 readability:
100 $new_object = Class->new(
102 parameter => value,
103 parameter => value,
104 ...
105 );
106 Here, parameters are the class properties names, and differ from class
108 to class. Classes often have common properties, primarily due to the
109 object inheritance.
110 In the example, the following properties are set :
112 Window::text
114 Window::size
115 Button::text
116 Button::centered
117 Button::onClick
118 Property values can be of any type, given that they are scalar. As
120 depicted here, "::text" property accepts a string, "::size" - an
121 anonymous array of two integers and "onClick" - a sub.
122 onXxxx are special properties that form a class of events, which share
124 the "new"/"create" syntax, and are additive when the regular properties
125 are substitutive (read more in Prima::Object). Events are called in
126 the object context when a specific condition occurs. The "onClick"
127 event here, for example, is called when the user presses (or otherwise
128 activates) the button.
129
131 This section describes miscellaneous methods, registered in "Prima::"
132 namespace.
133 message TEXT
135 Displays a system message box with TEXT.
136 run Enters the program event loop. The loop is ended when
138 "Prima::Application"'s "destroy" or "close" method is called.
139 parse_argv @ARGS
141 Parses prima options from @ARGS, returns unparsed arguments.
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144 Prima applications do not have a portable set of arguments; it depends
145 on the particular platform. Run
146 perl -e '$ARGV[0]=q(--help); require Prima'
148 or any Prima program with "--help" argument to get the list of
150 supported arguments. Programmaticaly, setting and obtaining these
151 options can be done by using "Prima::options" routine.
152 In cases where Prima argument parsing conflicts with application
154 options, use Prima::noARGV to disable automatic parsing; also see
155 parse_argv. Alternatively, the construct
156 BEGIN { local @ARGV; require Prima; }
158 will also do.
160
162 The toolkit documentation is divided by several subjects, and the
163 information can be found in the following files:
164 Tutorials
166 Prima::tutorial - introductory tutorial
167 Core toolkit classes
169 Prima::Object - basic object concepts, properties, events
170 Prima::Classes - binder module for the core classes
172 Prima::Drawable - 2-D graphic interface
174 Prima::Region - generic shape for clipping and hit testing
176 Prima::Image - bitmap routines
178 Prima::image-load - image subsystem and file operations
180 Prima::Widget - window management
182 · Prima::Widget::pack - Tk::pack geometry manager
184 · Prima::Widget::place - Tk::place geometry manager
186 Prima::Window - top-level window management
188 Prima::Clipboard - GUI interprocess data exchange
190 Prima::Menu - pull-down and pop-up menu objects
192 Prima::Timer - programmable periodical events
194 Prima::Application - root of widget objects hierarchy
196 Prima::Printer - system printing services
198 Prima::File - asynchronous stream I/O
200 Widget library
202 Prima::Buttons - buttons and button grouping widgets
203 Prima::Calendar - calendar widget
205 Prima::ComboBox - combo box widget
207 Prima::DetailedList - multi-column list viewer with controlling
209 header widget
210 Prima::DetailedOutline - a multi-column outline viewer with
212 controlling header widget
213 Prima::DockManager - advanced dockable widgets
215 Prima::Docks - dockable widgets
217 Prima::Edit - text editor widget
219 Prima::ExtLists - listbox with checkboxes
221 Prima::FrameSet - frameset widget class
223 Prima::Grids - grid widgets
225 Prima::Header - a multi-tabbed header widget
227 Prima::HelpViewer - the built-in POD file browser
229 Prima::Image::TransparencyControl - standard dialog for transparent
231 color index selection
232 Prima::ImageViewer - bitmap viewer
234 Prima::InputLine - input line widget
236 Prima::KeySelector - key combination widget and routines
238 Prima::Menus - menu widgets
240 Prima::Label - static text widget
242 Prima::Lists - user-selectable item list widgets
244 Prima::MDI - top-level windows emulation classes
246 Prima::Notebooks - multipage widgets
248 Prima::Outlines - tree view widgets
250 Prima::PodView - POD browser widget
252 Prima::ScrollBar - scroll bars
254 Prima::ScrollWidget - scrollable generic document widget
256 Prima::Sliders - sliding bars, spin buttons and input lines, dial
258 widget etc.
259 Prima::Spinner - spinner animation
261 Prima::StartupWindow - a simplistic startup banner window
263 Prima::TextView - rich text browser widget
265 Prima::Themes - widget themes manager
267 Standard dialogs
269 Prima::Dialog::ColorDialog - color selection facilities
270 Prima::Dialog::FindDialog - find and replace dialogs
272 Prima::Dialog::FileDialog - file system related widgets and dialogs
274 Prima::Dialog::FontDialog - font dialog
276 Prima::Dialog::ImageDialog - image file open and save dialogs
278 Prima::Image::TransparencyControl - transparent color index
280 selection
281 Prima::MsgBox - message and input dialog boxes
283 Prima::Dialog::PrintDialog - standard printer setup dialog
285 Drawing helpers
287 Prima::Drawable::CurvedText - fit text to path
288 Prima::Drawable::Glyphs - bi-directional text input and complex
290 scripts output
291 Prima::Drawable::Gradient - gradient fills for primitives
293 Prima::Drawable::Markup - Allow markup in widgets
295 Prima::Drawable::Path - stroke and fill complex paths
297 Prima::Drawable::Subcanvas - paint a hierarchy of widgets to any
299 drawable
300 Prima::Drawable::TextBlock - rich text representation
302 Visual Builder
304 VB - Visual Builder for the Prima toolkit
305 Prima::VB::VBLoader - Visual Builder file loader
307 prima-cfgmaint - configuration tool for Visual Builder
309 Prima::VB::CfgMaint - maintains visual builder widget palette
311 configuration
312 PostScript printer interface
314 Prima::PS::Drawable - PostScript interface to "Prima::Drawable"
315 Prima::PS::Printer - PostScript interface to "Prima::Printer"
317 C interface to the toolkit
319 Prima::internals - Internal architecture
320 Prima::codecs - Step-by-step image codec creation
322 prima-gencls - "prima-gencls", a class compiler tool.
324 Miscellaneous
326 Prima::faq - frequently asked questions
327 Prima::Const - predefined toolkit constants
329 Prima::EventHook - event filtering
331 Prima::Image::Animate - animate gif and webp files
333 Prima::IniFile - support of Windows-like initialization files
335 Prima::IntUtils - internal functions
337 Prima::StdBitmap - shared access to the standard toolkit bitmaps
339 Prima::Stress - stress test module
341 Prima::Tie - tie widget properties to scalars or arrays
343 Prima::Utils - miscellaneous routines
345 Prima::Widgets - miscellaneous widget classes
347 System-specific modules and documentation
349 Prima::gp-problems - Graphic subsystem portability issues
350 Prima::X11 - usage guide for X11 environment
352 Prima::sys::gtk::FileDialog - GTK file system dialogs
354 Prima::sys::win32::FileDialog - Windows file system dialogs
356 Prima::sys::XQuartz - MacOSX/XQuartz facilities
358 Class information
360 The Prima manual pages often provide information for more than one
361 Prima class. To quickly find out the manual page of a desired
362 class, as well as display the inheritance information, use
363 "prima-class" command. The command can produce output in text and
364 pod formats; the latter feature is used by the standard Prima
365 documentation viewer "podview" ( see File/Run/prima-class ).
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368 Copyright 1997-2003 The Protein Laboratory, University of Copenhagen.
369 All rights reserved.
370 Copyright 2004-2020 Dmitry Karasik. All rights reserved.
372 This program is distributed under the BSD License.
374
376 Dmitry Karasik <dmitry@karasik.eu.org>, Anton Berezin
377 <tobez@tobez.org>, Vadim Belman <voland@lflat.org>,
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