Dear Monks,
I have to design and code an application using curses in Perl. I have file with data in various fields.I need following functionalities. Now I haven't designed an application like this before so I may miss other important features. But this is what I can think of currently.

Your input will be valuable. Here is a sample program for curses, Here is the code if anyone want to give it a shot.

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use strict;
use Curses;
&initialize();
&routine();
&finalize();

sub routine {
while(1){
    while ((my $key = getch()) ne ERR) {    
    if($key eq 'q'){
        &clear_screen;
        done("See you again!");
    }
    if($key eq 'h'){
        &clear_screen;
        print_me("Hello");
    }
    if($key eq 'w'){
        &clear_screen;
        print_me("World");
    }
    }
}

}
sub initialize{
    Curses::initscr();
    Curses::noecho();           
    Curses::cbreak(); 
    Curses::nodelay(1);         
}
sub finalize{
    Curses::endwin();
    exit(0);
}
sub print_me
{
    my $string = shift;
    Curses::move(10,20);
    Curses::addstr($string);
    Curses::move(0,0);
}
sub clear_screen
{
    Curses::move(10,20);
    Curses::addstr(" "x70);     
}
sub done { 
    endwin(); 
    print "@_\n"; 
    exit; 
}

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Your help would be useful in any direction, including suggestions and examples.

Thanks
Artist

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