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This provides for splash screens to be shown to the user either reporting difficulties, errors, providing help or asking for confirmation of responses. The routine draws a full window covering the normal menu space (not the backdrop). It accepts three parameters;
- $title
- Gives the window a title included in the border
- $message
- provides the actual text message. If this can be fitted onto a single line, it will be centred in the screen. If the text exceeds a single line width, it will be passed through Text::Wrap for formating. Text::Wrap breaks lines at word-boundaries (spaces) and also acknowledges n as a forced new-line character. All lines are left-justified and ragged on the right.
- $style
- using different colours, a different meaning can be associated with splash screens. Also a simple button bar will be drawn for each type so that users can confirm or reject options as required. Responses from menu_show will be either ``YES'' or ``NO''
- ``HELP''
- uses the help colour scheme (brown on grey); also automatically provides a single button.
- ``WARN''
- uses the warning colour scheme as used by the popup screens (defaults to yellow on green). User definable button bar available (see button_set).
- ``ERROR''
- uses the error colour scheme (white on red) with an active button bar.
Splash screen are exited by pressing any normal key. Usually function keys are rejected.
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Andy Ferguson (AFC)
2001-10-20