🎉 Highlights
The initial release of Tide establishes a robust foundation for building terminal user interfaces in Go. Looking at our example application (cmd/example/main.go, lines 1-604), we've created a powerful terminal manipulation library with extensive capabilities.
✨ Core Features
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Advanced Terminal Backend
- Raw terminal mode with tcell integration
- Event system for keyboard and mouse input (
terminal/events.go, lines 15-30) - Window management with resize handling
- Alternative screen buffer support
- Cross-platform clipboard integration
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Rich Color Support
- True color (24-bit) rendering
- Intelligent color optimization (
terminal/color_optimizer.go, lines 20-47) - 256-color mode support
- 16-color mode fallback
- Dynamic color profile detection
- Color dithering for lower color modes
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Unicode and Character Handling
- Full Unicode support
- Combining characters
- Double-width character handling
- Custom character width calculations
- Rich text rendering capabilities
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Input and Interaction
- Mouse support with multiple modes (Click, Drag, Motion)
- Keyboard event handling
- Focus management
- Window title manipulation
- Bracketed paste mode
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Drawing and Rendering
- Double-buffered rendering
- Efficient screen buffer management
- Region-based drawing
- Style attributes (Bold, Italic, Underline, etc.)
- Optimized screen updates
🧪 Testing and Quality
Our comprehensive test suite (terminal/terminal_test.go, lines 1-540) ensures reliability across:
- Terminal capability detection
- Color rendering and optimization
- Input handling
- Unicode support
- Clipboard operations
- Buffer management
- Concurrent operations
🎯 What's Next
Our roadmap for upcoming releases includes:
- Widget system implementation
- Layout management
- State handling
- Event propagation
- Focus system
- Basic widget set (Container, Text, Button, etc.)
🛠️ Installation
go get github.com/watzon/tide@v0.1.0📝 Documentation
Full documentation is available in our GitHub repository.
🙏 Acknowledgments
Special thanks to:
- The tcell project for providing foundational terminal capabilities
🐛 Bug Reports
Please report any issues through our issue tracker.