Tk::LockDisplay - Create modal dialog and wait for a password response.
$lock = $parent->LockDisplay(-option => value, ... );
This widget fills the display with a screensaver-like animation, makes a global grab and then waits for the user's authentication string, usually their password. Until the password is entered the display cannot be used: window manager commands are ignored, etcetera. Note, X server requests are not blocked.
Password verification is perforemd via a callback passed during widget creation.
While waiting for the user to respond, LockDisplay sets a global grab. This prevents the user from interacting with any application in any way except to type characters in the LockDisplay entry box. See the Lock() method.
The following option/value pairs are supported:
Password verification subroutine - it's passed two positional parameters, the username and password, and should return 1 if success, else 0.
A string indicating what screensaver plugin to use, or 'none' to disable the screensaver. Supplied plugins are 'lines' (default), 'neko' and 'counter', which reside in the directory .../Tk/LockDisplay. You can drop a plugin of your own in that directory - see the section Plugin Format below for details. You can also supply your own animation subroutine by passing a CODE reference. The subroutine is passed a single parameter, the canvas widget reference, which you can draw upon as you please.
The number of milliseconds between calls to the screen saver animation code. Default is 200 milliseconds. Plugins can specifiy their own interval by returning the number of milliseconds (> 1) during initialization.
How many seconds of display inactivity before hiding the password entry widget and canvas title text. Default is 10 seconds.
Title text centered in canvas.
Title text color.
Canvas color.
Set to 1 allows a <Double-1> event to unlock the display. Used while debugging your authentication callback or plugin.
$lock->Lock;
This method locks the display and waits for the user's authentication data.
$lock = $mw->LockDisplay(-authenticate => \&check_pw);
sub check_pw {
# Perform AFS validation unless on Win32. my($user, $pw) = @_; if ($^O eq 'MSWin32') { ($pw eq $^O) ? exit(0) : return(0); } else { system "/usr/afsws/bin/klog $user " . quotemeta($pw) . " 2> /dev/null"; ($? == 0) ? exit(0) : return(0); }
} # end check_pw
Refer to the "counter" plugin file .../Tk/LockDisplay/counter.pm for details on the structure of a LockDisplay animation plugin. Basically, you create a ".pm" file that describes your plugin, "counter.pm" for instance. This file must contain a subroutine called Animate($canvas), where $canvas is the canvas widget reference passed to it.
LockDisplay first require()s your plugin file, and, if that succeeds, calls it once to perform initialization. Animate() should return 0 for failure, 1 for success, and > 1 for success and to specifiy a private -animationinterval (in milliseconds). Subsequent calls to Animate() are for its "main loop" processing. As before, the return code should be 0 or 1 for failure or success, respectively.
Beta Release.
. Implement plugins and other fixes suggested by Achim Bohnet. Thanks! . Allow plugin name 'none' to disable screensaver. Thanks to Roderick Anderson!
. getlogin() fails on HPUX, so try getpwuid() as a fallback. Thanks to Paul Schinder for the CPAN-Testers bug report. . Plugins can return() their own -animationinterval value during preset. . Add 'neko' plugin.
. Fix value of pi in neko plugin! . Add Windows 95 support
Stephen.O.Lidie@Lehigh.EDU
Copyright (C) 1998 - 1998, Stephen O. Lidie.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
screeensaver, dialog, modal
To install Tk::LockDisplay, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Tk::LockDisplay
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Tk::LockDisplay
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.