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NCurses provides a Perl 6 native interface to ncurses library.

Example

use v6;
use NCurses;

# Initialize curses window
my $win = initscr() or die "Failed to initialize ncurses\n";
start_color;

# Initialize colors
init_pair(1, COLOR_WHITE, COLOR_RED);
init_pair(2, COLOR_WHITE, COLOR_BLUE);

# Print Hello World
color_set(1, 0);
mvaddstr( 10, 10, " Hello world " );
color_set(2, 0);
mvaddstr( LINES() - 2, 2, "Press any key to exit..." );

# Refresh (this is needed)
nc_refresh;

# Wait for a keypress
getch;

# Cleanup
LEAVE {
    delwin($win) if $win;
    endwin;
}

For more examples, please see the examples folder.

Installation

  • On Debian-based linux distributions, please use the following command:
$ sudo apt-get install libncurses5
  • On Mac OS X, please use the following command:
$ brew update
$ brew install ncurses
  • Using zef (a module management tool bundled with Rakudo Star):
$ zef install NCurses

Environment variables

The following environment variables can be used to specify the location of the different ncurses libraries:

  • PERL6_NCURSES_LIB
  • PERL6_NCURSES_PANEL_LIB
  • PERL6_NCURSES_MENU_LIB
  • PERL6_NCURSES_FORM_LIB

Troubleshooting

  • To fix a broken or messed up terminal after a crash, please type reset to reset your terminal into its original state.

Testing

  • To run tests:
$ prove -ve "perl6 -Ilib"
  • To run all tests including author tests (Please make sure Test::Meta is installed):
$ zef install Test::META
$ AUTHOR_TESTING=1 prove -e "perl6 -Ilib"

Author

Ahmad M. Zawawi, azawawi on #perl6, https://github.com/azawawi/

License

MIT License