Curses::Application 0.2

Curses::Application provides the Curses Application Framework.

Curses::Application attempts to relieve the programmer of having to deal directly with Curses at all. Based upon Curses::Widgets and Curses::Forms, all one should have to do is define the application forms and contents in the DATA block of a script. Curses::Application will take care of the rest.

This module follows many of the conventions established by the Curses::Widgets and Curses::Forms modules, being built upon that framework. One area of special note, however, is the declaration of forms used within the application.

Curses::Application differentiates between forms and form definitions. A form is an instance of any particular form definition. Keeping that line of separation simplifies the development of MDI (Multiple Document Interface) applications.
Form definitions can be provided in two ways: as a list of definitions in the main::DATA block, or individually by using the addFormDef method. The former would normally be the simplest way to do so.

At the end of your script, declare a DATA block using Perls __DATA__ token. In that DATA block place a hash declaration (%forms) which contains a key/value pair for each form definition. The key being the name of the definition, and the value being a hash reference to the form declarations (see the Curses::Forms pod for directives available to that module). The only extra key that should be in each forms hash reference should be a TYPE directive, which would point to a module name relative to the base Curses::Forms class. If you omit this key, then it will be assumed that the form is a Curses::Forms object, or some custom derivative as specified in ALTPATH.