---
name: "Curses::UI::Dialog::Status"
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::Status"
---

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

Create and manipulate status dialogs

## NAME

Curses::UI::Dialog::Status - Create and manipulate status dialogs

## CLASS HIERARCHY

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

## 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::Status',
    -message   => 'Hello, world!',
    );
    $dialog->draw();
    $win->delete('mydialog');
    # The easy way (see Curses::UI documentation).
    # --------------------------------------------
    $cui->status( -message => 'Some message' );
    # or even:
    $cui->status( 'Some message' );
    $cui->nostatus;
```

## DESCRIPTION

Curses::UI::Dialog::Status is not really a dialog, since the user has no way of interacting with it. It is merely a way of presenting status information to the user of  your program.

See exampes/demo-Curses::UI::Dialog::Status in the  distribution for a short demo.

## OPTIONS

- •

  **-title** \< TEXT \>

  Set the title of the dialog window to TEXT.

- •

  **-message** \< TEXT \>

  This option sets the initial message to show to TEXT.

## METHODS

- •

  **new** ( OPTIONS )

- •

  **layout** ( )

- •

  **draw** ( BOOLEAN )

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

- •

  **message** ( TEXT )

  This method will update the message of the status dialog  to TEXT. For this update to show, you will have to call the **draw** method of the progress dialog.

## SEE ALSO

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

## AUTHOR

Copyright (c) 2001-2002 Maurice Makaay. 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.