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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::ImageViewer - bitmap viewer
231 Prima::InputLine - input line widget
233 Prima::KeySelector - key combination widget and routines
235 Prima::Menus - menu widgets
237 Prima::Label - static text widget
239 Prima::Lists - user-selectable item list widgets
241 Prima::MDI - top-level windows emulation classes
243 Prima::Notebooks - multipage widgets
245 Prima::Outlines - tree view widgets
247 Prima::PodView - POD browser widget
249 Prima::ScrollBar - scroll bars
251 Prima::ScrollWidget - scrollable generic document widget
253 Prima::Sliders - sliding bars, spin buttons and input lines, dial
255 widget etc.
256 Prima::Spinner - spinner animation
258 Prima::TextView - rich text browser widget
260 Prima::Widgets - miscellaneous widget classes
262 Standard dialogs
264 Prima::Dialog::ColorDialog - color selection facilities
265 Prima::Dialog::FindDialog - find and replace dialogs
267 Prima::Dialog::FileDialog - file system related widgets and dialogs
269 Prima::Dialog::FontDialog - font dialog
271 Prima::Dialog::ImageDialog - image file open and save dialogs
273 Prima::Image::TransparencyControl - transparent color index
275 selection
276 Prima::MsgBox - message and input dialog boxes
278 Prima::Dialog::PrintDialog - standard printer setup dialog
280 Drawing helpers
282 Prima::Drawable::Antialias - plot antialiased shapes
283 Prima::Drawable::CurvedText - fit text to path
285 Prima::Drawable::Glyphs - bi-directional text input and complex
287 scripts output
288 Prima::Drawable::Gradient - gradient fills for primitives
290 Prima::Drawable::Markup - allow markup in widgets
292 Prima::Drawable::Metafile - graphic primitive recorder
294 Prima::Drawable::Path - stroke and fill complex paths
296 Prima::Drawable::Subcanvas - paint a hierarchy of widgets to any
298 drawable
299 Prima::Drawable::TextBlock - rich text representation
301 Visual Builder
303 VB - Visual Builder for the Prima toolkit
304 Prima::VB::VBLoader - Visual Builder file loader
306 prima-cfgmaint - configuration tool for Visual Builder
308 Prima::VB::CfgMaint - maintains visual builder widget palette
310 configuration
311 PostScript printer interface
313 Prima::PS::PostScript - PostScript interface to "Prima::Drawable"
314 Prima::PS::PDF - PDF interface to "Prima::Drawable"
316 Prima::PS::Printer - PostScript and PDF interfaces to
318 "Prima::Printer"
319 C interface to the toolkit
321 Prima::internals - Internal architecture
322 Prima::codecs - Step-by-step image codec creation
324 prima-gencls - "prima-gencls", a class compiler tool.
326 Miscellaneous
328 Prima::faq - frequently asked questions
329 Prima::Const - predefined toolkit constants
331 Prima::EventHook - event filtering
333 Prima::Image::Animate - animate gif and webp files
335 Prima::IniFile - support of Windows-like initialization files
337 Prima::IntUtils - internal functions
339 Prima::StartupWindow - a simplistic startup banner window
341 Prima::StdBitmap - shared access to the standard toolkit bitmaps
343 Prima::Stress - stress test module
345 Prima::Themes - widget themes manager
347 Prima::Tie - tie widget properties to scalars or arrays
349 Prima::Utils - miscellaneous routines
351 System-specific modules and documentation
353 Prima::gp-problems - Graphic subsystem portability issues
354 Prima::X11 - usage guide for X11 environment
356 Prima::sys::gtk::FileDialog - GTK file system dialogs
358 Prima::sys::win32::FileDialog - Windows file system dialogs
360 Prima::sys::XQuartz - MacOSX/XQuartz facilities
362 Prima::sys::FS - unicode-aware core file functions
364 Class information
366 The Prima manual pages often provide information for more than one
367 Prima class. To quickly find out the manual page of a desired
368 class, as well as display the inheritance information, use
369 "prima-class" command. The command can produce output in text and
370 pod formats; the latter feature is used by the standard Prima
371 documentation viewer "podview" ( see File/Run/prima-class ).
372
374 Copyright 1997-2003 The Protein Laboratory, University of Copenhagen.
375 All rights reserved.
376 Copyright 2004-2020 Dmitry Karasik. All rights reserved.
378 This program is distributed under the BSD License.
380
382 Dmitry Karasik <dmitry@karasik.eu.org>, Anton Berezin
383 <tobez@tobez.org>, Vadim Belman <voland@lflat.org>,
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