NAME

Fl::Slider - Widget with a Sliding Knob Inside a Box

Description

The Fl::Slider widget contains a sliding knob inside a box.

It is often used as a scrollbar. Moving the box all the way to the top/left sets it to the minimum(), and to the bottom/right to the maximum(). The minimum() may be greater than the maximum() to reverse the slider direction.

Use Fl::Widget->type($type) to set how the slider is drawn, which can be one of the following:

FL_VERTICAL - Draws a vertical slider (this is the default).

FL_HORIZONTAL - Draws a horizontal slider.

FL_VERT_FILL_SLIDER - Draws a filled vertical slider, useful as a progress or value meter.

FL_HOR_FILL_SLIDER - Draws a filled horizontal slider, useful as a progress or value meter.

FL_VERT_NICE_SLIDER - Draws a vertical slider with a nice looking control knob.

FL_HOR_NICE_SLIDER - Draws a horizontal slider with a nice looking control knob.

All of these values can be imported with the :type tag.

Methods

Fl::Slider inherits from Fl::Valuator and Fl::Widget. On top of that, it exposes the following methods...

new(...)

    my $val_a = Fl::Slider->new(0, 0, 250, 500, 'Important Stuff');
    my $val_b = Fl::Slider->new(0, 0, 250, 500);

The constructor creates a new widget using the given position, size, and label.

The default boxtype is FL_DOWN_BOX.

The destructor removes the widget.

bounds(...)

    $val_b->bounds($a, $b);

Sets the minimum ($a) and maximum ($b) values for the valuator widget. If either values is changed, a partial redraw is asked.

scrollvalue(...)

    my $value = $val_a->scrollvalue($pos, $size, $first, $total);

Sets the size and position of the sliding knob in the box.

$pos would be the position of the first line displayed, $size is the size of the window in lines, $first is the number of the first line, and $total is the total number of lines.

The return value is the same as <FL::Valuator-value();>>

slider(...)

    my $boxtype = $val_a->slider();
    $val_b->slider( FL_UP_BOX );

Gets or sets the slider box type.

slider_size(...)

Set the dimensions of the moving piece of slider.

    $val_b->slider_size( .13 );

This is the fraction of the size of the entire widget. If you set this to 1 then the slider cannot move. The default value is .08.

For the "fill" sliders this is the size of the area around the end that causes a drag effect rather than causing the slider to jump to the mouse.

LICENSE

Copyright (C) Sanko Robinson.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

AUTHOR

Sanko Robinson <sanko@cpan.org>

cpanm Fl

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Fl