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NAME

6       Prima - a perl graphic toolkit
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SYNOPSIS

9               use Prima qw(Application Buttons);
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11               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               );
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20               run Prima;
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DESCRIPTION

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.
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31       The core classes form an hierarchy, which is displayed below:
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33               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
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52       The external classes are derived from these; the list of widget classes
53       can be found below in "SEE ALSO".
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BASIC PROGRAM

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.
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60       A basic construct for a program written with Prima obviously requires
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62               use Prima;
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64       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
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69               use Prima;
70               use Prima::Application;
71               use Prima::Buttons;
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73       shorter by using the following scheme:
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75               use Prima qw(Application Buttons);
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77       Another basic issue is the event loop, which is called by
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79               run Prima;
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81       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.
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86       The window is created by invoking
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88               Prima::MainWindow->new();
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90       or
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92               Prima::MainWindow-> create()
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94       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:
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101               $new_object = Class->new(
102                       parameter => value,
103                       parameter => value,
104                       ...
105               );
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107       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.
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111       In the example, the following properties are set :
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113               Window::text
114               Window::size
115               Button::text
116               Button::centered
117               Button::onClick
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119       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.
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123       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.
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API

131       This section describes miscellaneous methods, registered in "Prima::"
132       namespace.
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134       message TEXT
135           Displays a system message box with TEXT.
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137       run Enters the program event loop. The loop is ended when
138           "Prima::Application"'s "destroy" or "close" method is called.
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140       parse_argv @ARGS
141           Parses prima options from @ARGS, returns unparsed arguments.
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OPTIONS

144       Prima applications do not have a portable set of arguments; it depends
145       on the particular platform. Run
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147               perl -e '$ARGV[0]=q(--help); require Prima'
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149       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.
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153       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
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157               BEGIN { local @ARGV; require Prima; }
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159       will also do.
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SEE ALSO

162       The toolkit documentation is divided by several subjects, and the
163       information can be found in the following files:
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165       Tutorials
166           Prima::tutorial - introductory tutorial
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168       Core toolkit classes
169           Prima::Object - basic object concepts, properties, events
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171           Prima::Classes - binder module for the core classes
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173           Prima::Drawable - 2-D graphic interface
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175           Prima::Region - generic shape for clipping and hit testing
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177           Prima::Image  - bitmap routines
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179           Prima::image-load - image subsystem and file operations
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181           Prima::Widget - window management
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183           · Prima::Widget::pack - Tk::pack geometry manager
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185           · Prima::Widget::place - Tk::place geometry manager
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187           Prima::Window - top-level window management
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189           Prima::Clipboard - GUI interprocess data exchange
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191           Prima::Menu - pull-down and pop-up menu objects
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193           Prima::Timer - programmable periodical events
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195           Prima::Application - root of widget objects hierarchy
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197           Prima::Printer - system printing services
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199           Prima::File - asynchronous stream I/O
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201       Widget library
202           Prima::Buttons - buttons and button grouping widgets
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204           Prima::Calendar - calendar widget
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206           Prima::ComboBox - combo box widget
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208           Prima::DetailedList - multi-column list viewer with controlling
209           header widget
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211           Prima::DetailedOutline - a multi-column outline viewer with
212           controlling header widget
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214           Prima::DockManager - advanced dockable widgets
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216           Prima::Docks - dockable widgets
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218           Prima::Edit - text editor widget
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220           Prima::ExtLists - listbox with checkboxes
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222           Prima::FrameSet - frameset widget class
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224           Prima::Grids - grid widgets
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226           Prima::Header - a multi-tabbed header widget
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228           Prima::HelpViewer - the built-in POD file browser
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230           Prima::Image::TransparencyControl - standard dialog for transparent
231           color index selection
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233           Prima::ImageViewer - bitmap viewer
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235           Prima::InputLine - input line widget
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237           Prima::KeySelector - key combination widget and routines
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239           Prima::Label - static text widget
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241           Prima::Lists - user-selectable item list widgets
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243           Prima::MDI - top-level windows emulation classes
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245           Prima::Notebooks - multipage widgets
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247           Prima::Outlines - tree view widgets
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249           Prima::PodView - POD browser widget
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251           Prima::ScrollBar - scroll bars
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253           Prima::ScrollWidget - scrollable generic document widget
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255           Prima::Sliders - sliding bars, spin buttons and input lines, dial
256           widget etc.
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258           Prima::Spinner - spinner animation
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260           Prima::StartupWindow - a simplistic startup banner window
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262           Prima::TextView - rich text browser widget
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264           Prima::Themes - widget themes manager
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266       Standard dialogs
267           Prima::ColorDialog - color selection facilities
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269           Prima::EditDialog - find and replace dialogs
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271           Prima::FileDialog - file system related widgets and dialogs
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273           Prima::FontDialog - font dialog
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275           Prima::ImageDialog - image file open and save dialogs
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277           Prima::MsgBox - message and input dialog boxes
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279           Prima::PrintDialog - standard printer setup dialog
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281           Prima::StdDlg - wrapper module to the toolkit standard dialogs
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283       Drawing helpers
284           Prima::Drawable::CurvedText - fit text to path
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286           Prima::Drawable::Gradient - gradient fills for primitives
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288           Prima::Drawable::Path - stroke and fill complex paths
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290           Prima::Drawable::Subcanvas - paint a hierarchy of widgets to any
291           drawable
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293       Visual Builder
294           VB - Visual Builder for the Prima toolkit
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296           Prima::VB::VBLoader - Visual Builder file loader
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298           prima-cfgmaint - configuration tool for Visual Builder
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300           Prima::VB::CfgMaint - maintains visual builder widget palette
301           configuration
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303       PostScript printer interface
304           Prima::PS::Drawable - PostScript interface to "Prima::Drawable"
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306           Prima::PS::Encodings - latin-based encodings
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308           Prima::PS::Fonts - PostScript device fonts metrics
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310           Prima::PS::Printer - PostScript interface to "Prima::Printer"
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312       C interface to the toolkit
313           Prima::internals - Internal architecture
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315           Prima::codecs    - Step-by-step image codec creation
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317           prima-gencls     - "prima-gencls", a class compiler tool.
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319       Miscellaneous
320           Prima::faq - frequently asked questions
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322           Prima::Bidi - bi-directional text input and output
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324           Prima::Const - predefined toolkit constants
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326           Prima::EventHook - event filtering
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328           Prima::Image::AnimateGIF - animate gif files
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330           Prima::IniFile - support of Windows-like initialization files
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332           Prima::IntUtils - internal functions
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334           Prima::StdBitmap - shared access to the standard toolkit bitmaps
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336           Prima::Stress - stress test module
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338           Prima::Tie - tie widget properties to scalars or arrays
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340           Prima::Utils - miscellaneous routines
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342           Prima::Widgets - miscellaneous widget classes
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344           Prima::gp-problems - Graphic subsystem portability issues
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346           Prima::X11 - usage guide for X11 environment
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348       Class information
349           The Prima manual pages often provide information for more than one
350           Prima class.  To quickly find out the manual page of a desired
351           class, as well as display the inheritance information, use
352           "prima-class" command. The command can produce output in text and
353           pod formats; the latter feature is used by the standard Prima
354           documentation viewer "podview" ( see File/Run/prima-class ).
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COPYRIGHT

357       Copyright 1997-2003 The Protein Laboratory, University of Copenhagen.
358       All rights reserved.
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360       Copyright 2004-2012 Dmitry Karasik. All rights reserved.
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362       This program is distributed under the BSD License.
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AUTHORS

365       Dmitry Karasik <dmitry@karasik.eu.org>, Anton Berezin
366       <tobez@tobez.org>, Vadim Belman <voland@lflat.org>,
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