Greetings,

I am learning Curses::UI and am trying to mix printing to stdout with the curses elements. Here is a code snippet:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Curses::UI;

my $cui = new Curses::UI(
                         -color_support => 1,
                        );  

my $window = $cui->add(
                       "main_window",
                       "Window",
                       -width  => 50, 
                       -height => 4,
                      );  

my $text_editor = $window->add(
                               "description_text",
                               "TextEditor",
                               -text         => "", 
                               -title        => "Enter Description",
                               -border       => 1,
                               -singleline   => 1,
                               -width        => 40, 
                               -bfg          => "red",
                               -titlereverse => 0,
                               -showlines    => 1,
                               -x            => 0,
                               -y            => 0,
                              );  

my $okay_button = $window->add(
                               "buttons",
                               "Buttonbox",
                               -border  => 1,
                               -width   => 6,
                               -bfg     => "blue",
                               -x       => 40, 
                               -y       => 0,
                               -buttons => [
                                            {   
                                             -label => "Okay",
                                             -value => 1,
                                             -shortcut => "o",
                                             -onpress  => sub { $cui->
+mainloopExit; },
                                            },  
                                           ],  
                              );  
$text_editor->focus;
$cui->mainloop;

print "outside of mainloop!\n";
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However, I never see the "outside of mainloop!" printed to stdout.

Any ideas?

Thanks for the help,

-mz

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