---
name: "Curses::UI::Dialog::Question"
section: "3pm"
platform: "linux"
package: "perl-curses-ui"
version: "0.9609-15"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/Curses::UI::Dialog::Question"
---

# Curses::UI::Dialog::Question(3pm)

Pose a simple question to the user

## NAME

Curses::UI::Dialog::Question - Pose a simple question to the user

## CLASS HIERARCHY

```
 Curses::UI::Widget
    |
    +----Curses::UI::Container
            |
            +----Curses::UI::Window
                    |
                    +----Curses::UI::Dialog::Question
```

## SYNOPSIS

```
    use Curses::UI;
    my $cui = new Curses::UI;
    my $win = $cui->add('window_id', 'Window');
    # The hard way.
    # -------------
    my $dialog = $win->add(
        'mydialog', 'Dialog::Question',
        -question   => 'How super awesome are you?'
    );
    $dialog->modalfocus;
    $win->delete('mydialog');
    # The easy way (see Curses::UI documentation).
    # --------------------------------------------
    my $value = $cui->question(-question => 'How super awesome are you?');
    # or even
    my $awesomeness = $cui->question('How super awesome are you?');
```

## DESCRIPTION

Curses::UI::Dialog::Question is a basic question dialog. This type of dialog has a message on it, a TextEntry answer box, and one or more  buttons. It can be used to have a user enter some answer in response to a question.

See exampes/demo-widgets in the distribution for a short demo.

## OPTIONS

- •

  **-title** \< TEXT \>

  Set the title of the dialog window to TEXT.

- •

  **-question** \< TEXT \>

  This option sets the question to show to TEXT. The text may contain newline (\\n) characters.

- •

  **-buttons** \< ARRAYREF \>

- •

  **-selected** \< INDEX \>

- •

  **-buttonalignment** \< VALUE \>

  These options sets the buttons that have to be used. For an explanation of these options, see the Curses::UI::Buttonbox documentation.

## METHODS

- •

  **new** ( HASH )

- •

  **layout** ( )

- •

  **draw** ( BOOLEAN )

- •

  **focus** ( )

  These are standard methods. See Curses::UI::Container for an explanation of these.

- •

  **get** ( )

  This method will call **get** on the TextEntry object of the dialog and return its returnvalue. See Curses::UI::TextEntry for more  information on this.  If the cancel button was pressed, the return  value will be undef.

## SEE ALSO

Curses::UI, Curses::UI::Container, Curses::UI::Buttonbox

## AUTHOR

Copyright (c) 2004 Luke Closs \<lukec@activestate.com\>. All rights reserved.

Maintained by Marcus Thiesen (marcus@cpan.thiesenweb.de)

This package is free software and is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty. It may be used, redistributed and/or modified under the same terms as perl itself.