HTML::GUI::container - Create and control a whole container for web application

NAME

HTML::GUI::container - Create and control a whole container for web application

VERSION

Version 0.01

CONTAINER

Manage a container : it loads its definition with a YAML file and create all the widgets it contains. It can generate javascript code to check constraints on the web page. It can test if constraints of each widget are OK. It can generate the HTML of each widget for use with HTML::Template.

PUBLIC METHODS

new

  create a new container

addChild

   Parameters :
      widget_def : hash ref : Parameters to define the widget inside the container.
The same parameters as to create a a widget but you can specify the cloneID (the id of the widget you want to clone from).
   Return :
   Description : 
      Create and add a widget to the container

getDefinitionData

                Specialization of the widget.pm function

getIds

   Return : 
                                array
   Description : 
      return an array of the ids of the widgets which belong
                        to the container.

setIndex

   Parameters :
      $widget : widget objet : the object to add to the index.
   Description : 
                  update the index of the container and all of its parents in order to have all indexes "up-to-date"

getElementById

   Parameters :
      id : string : id of the object to find.
   Description : 
                                return the objet widget whose id is $id or undef if no object has this id

setDefaultField

   Parameters :
      widgetObj : widget : The widget objet you want to use as a default widget.
   Return :
   Description : 
                        The default widget defined with this function will be used anytime your create a new widget without specifiing options.

ListError

   Return : 
      string
   Description : 
      Return a string describing all the public errors that occured in all the widget objects in order to explain to the user why his input cannot be recorded.

validate

   Return : 
                                return 1 if no field of the container break no constraint
                                return 0 if one or more field break constraint

getFiredBtn


         Parameters :
                 $params : the hash ref containing the POST key-value pairs.
   Description :
                        Find the button the user clic (if one button was fired)
   Returns :
      - The button object which was fired
                        - undef if no button was fired

getValueHash

                Description : 
                                get all the values stored in the container
                Return : 
                                a ref to a hash containing the value associated to each input id

setValueFromParams

                Description : 
                                set the value of the widgets of the container for which a value fits in $params hash;
                Return : 
                                nothing

setValue

                Description : 
                                set the value of the widgets of the container for which a value fits in $params hash; 
                
                Parameters :
                                $valueHash : a hash ref of the same form as the function getValueHash returns

                Return : 
                                nothing

getHtml

   Return : 
      a string containing the html of the widget contained in the container.

DESTROY The destructor to erase the ref to the parent and avoid cycle references

AUTHOR

Jean-Christian Hassler, <jhassler at free.fr>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-gui-libhtml-container at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

    perldoc HTML::GUI::widget

You can also look for information at:

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2007 Jean-Christian Hassler, all rights reserved.

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

 HTML::GUI::container - Create and control a whole container for web application