UI-Dialog version 1.00
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UI::Dialog is a OOPerl wrapper for the various dialog applications. These
dialog backends are currently supported: Zenity, GDialog, XDialog, KDialog,
CDialog, and Whiptail. There is also an ASCII backend provided as a last
resort interface for the console based dialog variants. UI::Dialog is a
class that provides a strict interface to these various backend modules.
By using UI:Dialog (with it's imposed limitations on the widgets) you can
ensure that your Perl program will function with any available interfaces.

UI::Dialog supports priority ordering of the backend detection process. So
if you'd prefer that Xdialog should be used first if available, simply
designate the desired order when creating the new object. The default order
for detecting and utilization of the backends are as follows:
  (with DISPLAY env): Zenity, GDialog, XDialog, KDialog
  (without DISPLAY): CDialog, Whiptail, ASCII

UI::Dialog is the result of a complete re-write of the UDPM CPAN module. This
was done to break away from the bad choice of name (UserDialogPerlModule) and
to implement a cleaner, more detached, OOPerl interface.

INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install

PROVIDES

 This module provides these classes, each with it's own perldoc:

 UI::Dialog
 UI::Dialog::Backend
 UI::Dialog::Backend::ASCII
 UI::Dialog::Backend::CDialog
 UI::Dialog::Backend::GDialog
 UI::Dialog::Backend::KDialog
 UI::Dialog::Backend::Nautilus
 UI::Dialog::Backend::Whiptail
 UI::Dialog::Backend::XDialog
 UI::Dialog::Backend::XOSD
 UI::Dialog::Backend::Zenity
 UI::Dialog::Console
 UI::Dialog::GNOME
 UI::Dialog::KDE


COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

 Copyright (C) 2003  Kevin C. Krinke <kckrinke@opendoorsoftware.com>

 This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
 License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
 version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

 This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
 Lesser General Public License for more details.

 You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
 License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
 Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA

