Amaretto

A multi platform C++ terminal I/O library

Table of contents

• Introduction
• Features
• Bugs
• Documentation
• Dependencies
  • Linux
• Make

Introduction

A C++ terminal input/output library for Linux and Windows.

This was another experiment of mine, not actually intended for production. You can use it if you want, though.

Features

• Basic colored output
• Keyboard input
• Window title changing
• Cursor positioning, hiding/showing
• Rectangle drawing, filling functions
• Line drawing functions
• String outputting functions
• Pattern drawing functions
• Border drawing functions
• Color-only/character-only drawing functions
• Wide characters support
• Mouse events

Bugs

• When cbreak is enabled and the program listens to mouse movement/scrolling events, the ansi escape sequence to turn off those events wont run, so on some terminals it might be goofy on CTRL+C exit (tested gnome-terminal, xfce4-terminal)

If you find any bugs, please create an issue and report them.

Documentation

Coming soon.

Dependencies

Linux

• ncurses

Make

Run make all to see all the make rules.

• Use make static to compile a static library and make shared to compile a dynamic library
• Dont forget to make clean when you want to recompile the library
• Use make install (on Linux) to install the library
• Use make tests to compile the test programs