CPPurses is a Terminal User Interface(TUI) Library built on top of ncurses. It defines a framework of Widgets, Layouts, and Events that let you focus on user interface design, while boilerplate common to ncurses applications is handled behind the scenes.
CPPurses contains a collection of common Widgets that can be pieced together to create a composite application. It is also possible to expand and build on top of existing Widgets, or to create completely new Widget types, by overriding a few virtual functions.
This is a work in progress. The API is not stable.
See the wiki for examples.
- UTF-8 support.
- Mouse and keyboard input.
- Library of generic Widget types.
- Easy Widget reuse and expansion through inheritance.
- Simple and configurable layout system.
- Signals and Slots for inter-Widget communication.
- Extensible color palettes.
- Simple border drawing and manipulation.
- Experimental animation support.
- Mouse Move Events
- Hovering Widget Layout
- Dialog Box Widget
- Tabs Widget
- More Documentation
CPPurses depends on two header only libraries, this repo includes them as git submodules. You'll need NCurses installed on your system.
git clone https://github.com/a-n-t-h-o-n-y/CPPurses.git
mkdir CPPurses/build && cd CPPurses/build
git submodule update --init --recursive --remote # Pull in dependencies
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release .. # Generate Makefiles
make # Build library
make demos # Build demos(optional)
sudo make install # Install header and library archive to system defaults
Installing the library with CMake will place the headers and the library archive in the standard GNU install directories.
For projects using CPPurses, link with cppurses, ncurses and your system's thread library. If you have installed the library your linker flags will be:
-lcppurses -lncurses -pthread
for most Linux distributions.
Reference documentation can be found here.
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This software is distributed under the MIT License.