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Tk-HyperText-0.13
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/ Tk::HyperText

NAME

Tk::HyperText - An ROText widget which renders HTML code.

SYNOPSIS

  use Tk::HyperText;

  my $html = $mw->Scrolled ('HyperText',
    -scrollbars => 'ose',
    -wrap       => 'word',
  )->pack (-fill => 'both', -expand => 1);

  $html->setHandler (Title    => \&onNewTitle);
  $html->setHandler (Resource => \&onResource);
  $html->setHandler (Submit   => \&onFormSubmit);

  $html->loadString (qq~<html>
    <head>
    <title>Hello world!</title>
    </head>
    <body bgcolor="#0099FF">
    <font size="6" family="Impact" color="#FFFFFF">
    <strong>Hello, world!</strong>
    </font>
    </body>
    </html>
  ~);

DESCRIPTION

Tk::HyperText is a widget derived from Tk::ROText that renders HTML code.

PURPOSE

First of all, Tk::HyperText is NOT expected to become a full-fledged web browser widget. This module's original idea was just to be a simple HTML-rendering widget, specifically to match the capabilities of the AOL Instant Messenger's HTML widgets. That is, to render basic text formatting, images, and hyperlinks. Anything this module does that's extra is only there because I was up to the challenge.

VERSION 0.06+

This module is NOT backwards compatible with versions 0.05 and below. Specifically, the module was rewritten to use HTML::TokeParser as its HTML parsing engine instead of parsing it as plain text. Also, the methods have all been changed. The old module's overloading of the standard Tk::Text methods was causing all kinds of problems, and since this isn't really a "drop-in" replacement for the other Text widgets, its methods don't need to follow the same format.

Also, support for Cascading StyleSheets doesn't work at this time. It may be re-implemented at a later date, but, as this widget is not meant to become a full-fledged web browser (see "PURPOSE"), the CSS support might not return.

EXAMPLE

Run the `demo.pl` script included in the distribution.

WIDGET-SPECIFIC OPTIONS

-continuous, -continue

Setting this option to 1 tells the widget not to re-render the entire contents of the widget each time the contents are updated. The default value is 0, so the entire page contents are rendered on any updates. This causes the code to be "continuous", so that i.e. if you fail to close a bold tag and then insert more code, the new code should carry on the unclosed tag and appear in bold. Setting this option to 1 would render the new code independently from the existing page and is therefore unnatural in HTML.

-continue is an alias for -continuous if you're terrible at spelling.

-allow, -deny

Define tags that are allowed or denied. See "WIDGET METHODS" for more details.

-attributes

Since Tk::HyperText doesn't yet support Cascading Style Sheets, the only alternative is to send in -attributes. This data structure defines some default styles for use within the rendered pages.

  my $html = $mw->Scrolled('HyperText',
    -attributes => {
      -anchor => {              # Hyperlink colors
        -normal  => '#0000FF',  # or 'blue'
        -hover   => '#FF0000',  # or 'red'
        -active  => '#FF0000',  # or 'red'
        -visited => '#990099',  # or 'purple'
      },
      -font => {
        -family => 'Times',
        -mono   => 'Courier',
        -size   => 'medium',    # or any HTML size
                                # (1..6, xx-small..xx-large)

        # Text styles, set them to 1 to apply the effect.
        # I don't see why anyone would want to use these,
        # but they're here anyway.
        -bold   => 0, # Bold
        -italic => 0, # Italic
        -under  => 0, # Underline
        -over   => 0, # Overstrike
      },
      -style => {
        -margins => 0,         # Text margins
        -color   => '#000000', # Text color
        -back    => '#FFFFFF', # Text BG color
      },
    },
  );

WIDGET METHODS

$text->setHandler (name => event)

Define a handler for certain events that happen within the widget. See "EVENTS" for more information.

  $html->setHandler (Title => sub {
    my ($self,$newTitle) = @_;

    $mw->configure (-title => $newTitle);
  });
$text->allowedTags (tags)

Specify a set of tags that are allowed to be rendered. Pass in the tag names as an array. If the "allow list" has any entries, only these tags will be rendered.

$text->deniedTags (tags)

Specify a set of tags that are not allowed to be rendered. If the "allow list" is empty and the "denied list" has any entries, then all tags are allowed except for those in the denied list. If any entries in the denied list conflict with entries in the allowed list, those tags are not allowed.

$text->allowHypertext ()

This is a preset allow/deny scheme. It allows all hypertext tags (basic text formatting, images, and horizontal rules) but doesn't allow tables, forms, lists, or other complicated tags. This will make it match the capabilities of AOL Instant Messenger's HTML rendering widgets.

It will allow the following tags:

  <html>, <head>, <title>, <body>, <a>, <p>, <br>, <hr>,
  <img>, <font>, <center>, <sup>, <sub>, <b>, <i>,
  <u>, <s>

All other tags are denied.

$text->allowEverything ()

Allows all supported tags to be rendered. It resets the "allow" and "deny" lists to be blank.

$text->loadString (html_code)

Render a string of HTML code into the text widget. This will replace all of the current contents of the widget with the new HTML code.

$text->loadBlank ()

Blanks out the contents of the widget (similar to the "about:blank" URI in most modern web browsers).

$text->clearHistory ()

Resets the browsing history (so "visited links" will become "normal links" again).

$text->getText ([as_html])

Returns the contents of the widget as a string. Send a true value as an argument to get the contents back including HTML code. Otherwise, only the plain text content is returned.

EVENTS

All events receive a reference to its parent widget as $_[0]. The following are the event handlers currently supported by Tk::HyperText:

Title ($self, $newTitle)

This event is called every time a <title>...</title> sequence is found in the HTML code. $newTitle is the text of the new page title.

Resource ($self, %info)

This event is called whenever an external resource is requested (such as an image or a hyperlink trying to link to another page). %info contains all the information about the requested resource.

  # For hyperlinks (<a> tags)
  %info = (
    tag    => 'a',                 # The HTML tag.
    href   => 'http://google.com', # The <a href> attribute.
    src    => 'http://google.com', # src is an alias for href
    target => '_blank',            # The <a target> attribute
  );

  # For images (<img> tags)
  %info = (
    tag    => 'img',        # The HTML tag.
    src    => 'avatar.jpg', # The <img src> attribute.
    width  => 48,           # The <img width> attribute.
    height => 48,           # The <img height> attribute.
    vspace => '',           # <img vspace>
    hspace => '',           # <img hspace>
    align  => '',           # <img align>
    alt    => 'alt text',   # <img alt>
  );

Note about Images: The Resource event, when called for an image, wants you to return the image's data, Base64-encoded. Otherwise, the image on the page will show up as a "broken image" icon. Here is an example of how to handle image resources:

  use LWP::Simple;
  use MIME::Base64 qw(encode_base64);

  $html->setHandler (Resource => sub {
    my ($self,%info) = @_;

    if ($info{tag} eq 'img') {

      # If an http:// link, get the image from the web.
      if ($info{src} =~ /^http/i) {
        my $bin = get $info{src};
        my $enc = encode_base64($bin);
        return $enc;
      }

      # Otherwise, read it from a local file.
      else {
        if (-f $src) {
          open (READ, $src);
          binmode READ;
          my @bin = <READ>;
          close (READ);
          chomp @bin;

          my $enc = encode_base64(join("\n",@bin));
          return enc;
        }
      }
    }

    return undef;
  });

On hyperlink resources, the module doesn't need or expect any return value. It should be up to the handler to do what it needs (i.e. fetch the source of the page, blank out the HTML widget and then loadString the new code into it).

Submit ($self,%info)

This event is called when an HTML form has been submitted. %info is a hash containing the information about the event.

  %info = (
    form    => 'login',      # The <form name> attribute.
    action  => '/login.cgi', # The <form action> attribute.
    method  => 'POST',       # The <form method> attribute.
    enctype => 'text/plain', # The <form enctype> attribute.
    fields  => {             # Hashref of form names and values.
      username => 'soandso',
      password => 'bigsecret',
      remember => 1,
    },
  );

The event doesn't want or expect a return value, similarly to the Resource event for normal anchor tags. Your code should know what to do with this event (i.e. get LWP::UserAgent to post the form to a remote web address, stream the results of the request in through loadString, etc.)

HTML SUPPORT

The following tags and attributes are supported by this module:

  <html>
  <head>
  <title>
  <body>     (bgcolor, text, link, alink, vlink)
  <a>        (href, target)
  <br>
  <p>
  <form>     (name, action, method, enctype)
  <textarea> (name, cols, rows, disabled)
  <select>   (name, size, multiple)
  <option>   (value, selected)
  <input>    (name, type, size, value, maxlength, disabled, checked)
              types: text, password, checkbox, radio, button, submit, reset
  <table>    (border, cellspacing, cellpadding)
  <tr>
  <td>       (colspan, rowspan)
    <th>
    <thead>
    <tbody>
    <tfoot>
  <hr>       (height, size)
  <img>      (src, width, height, vspace, hspace, align, alt)*
  <font>     (face, size, color, back)
    <basefont>
  <h1>..<h6>
  <ol>       (type, start)
  <ul>       (type)
  <li>
  <blockquote>
  <div>      (align)
  <span>
  <pre>
  <code>
    <tt>
    <kbd>
    <samp>
  <center>
    <right>
    <left>
  <sup>
  <sub>
  <big>
  <small>
  <b>
    <strong>
  <i>
    <em>
    <address>
    <var>
    <cite>
    <def>
  <u>
    <ins>
  <s>
    <del>

SEE ALSO

Tk::ROText and Tk::Text.

CHANGES

  0.12 Feb 25, 2016
  - Add more dependencies to get CPANTS to pass.

  0.11 Feb 23, 2016
  - Add dependency on HTML::TokeParser.

  0.10 Sep 18, 2015
  - Add dependency on Tk::Derived.

  0.09 Nov 11, 2013
  - Reformatted as per CPAN::Changes::Spec -neilbowers

  0.08 Nov  1, 2013
  - Use hex() instead of eval() to convert hex strings into numbers.
  - Set default values for body colors.
  - Stop demo.pl from being installed; rename it to eg/example.

  0.06 July 14, 2008
  - The module uses HTML::TokeParser now and does "real" HTML parsing.
  - Badly broke backwards compatibility.

  0.05 July 11, 2007
  - Added support for "tag permissions", so that you can allow/deny specific tags from
    being rendered (i.e. say you're making a chat client which uses HTML and you don't
    want people inserting images into their messages, or style sheets, etc)
  - Added the tags <address>, <var>, <cite>, and <def>.
  - Added the <hr> tag.
  - Added two "default images" that are displayed when an <img> tag tries to show
    an image that couldn't be found, or was found but is a file type that isn't
    supported (e.g. <img src="index.html"> would show an "invalid image" icon).
  - Bug fix: every opened tag that modifies your style will now copy all the other
    stacks. As a result, opening <font back="yellow">, then <font color="red">, and
    then closing the red font, will still apply the yellow background to the following
    text. The same is true for every tag.
  - Added some support for Cascading StyleSheets.
  - Added some actual use for the "active link color": it's used as the hover color
    on links (using it as a true active color is mostly useless, since most of the
    time the page won't remain very long when clicking on a link to even see it)

  0.04 June 23, 2007
  - Added support for the <basefont> tag.
  - Added support for <ul>, <ol>, and <li>. I've even extended the HTML specs a
    little and added "diamonds" as a shape for <ul>, and allowed <ul> to specify
    a decimal escape code (<ul type="#0164">)
  - Added a "page history", so that the "visited link color" on pages can actually
    be applied to the links.
  - Fixed the <blockquote> so that the margin applies to the right side as well.

  0.02 June 20, 2007
  - Bugfix: on consecutive insert() commands (without clearing it in between),
    the entire content of the HTML already in the widget would be inserted again,
    in addition to the new content. This has been fixed.

  0.01 June 20, 2007
  - Initial release.

AUTHOR

Noah Petherbridge, http://www.kirsle.net/

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.10.0 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.