Three Column Menu

SkipHuffman has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I need to create a terminal interface for an application. Three columns of options that can be navigated to by arrow keys or by hotkeys. Something like this
File Report User

Open file Create Report Update User

New File Print Report Change User

Close file Purge Report Exit User

File	Report	User
Open file	Create Report	Update User
New File	Print Report	Change User
Close file	Purge Report	Exit User

Of course I need to do something with what I get out of it. How can I do this?

Update. Looks like Curses::Forms might be useful for this. Need to find a decent tutorial.

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Re: Three Column Menu by kwaping (Priest) on Oct 19, 2006 at 19:29 UTC
Term::Menus and Term::ANSIMenu both look interesting, though I know at least Term::Menus doesn't do 3-column output like you're requesting. Does this need to be in a dumb terminal, or can you use Tk? (r.i.p. Nick) --- It's all fine and dandy until someone has to look at the code.	[reply]
Re^2: Three Column Menu by SkipHuffman (Monk) on Oct 19, 2006 at 19:36 UTC
Thanks. I have looked at Term:Menus, and as you say it only does a single column. It also forces the hotkey to be separate. Pretty much has to be dumb terminal. I am matching look and feel of an extant app. I will look into Term:ANSIMenu. Skip	[reply] [d/l]