Skip to content

agatan/ncurses.cr

Folders and files

NameName
Last commit message
Last commit date

Latest commit

 

History

47 Commits
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Repository files navigation

ncurses

ncurses.cr is a Crystal binding to the C ncurses library.

Installation

Add this to your application's shard.yml:

dependencies:
  ncurses:
    github: agatan/ncurses.cr

You also need to install the ncurses library. e.g. in ubuntu, sudo apt install libncursesw5-dev

Usage

require "ncurses"

NCurses.open do
  # initialize
  NCurses.cbreak
  NCurses.noecho
  NCurses.start_color

  # define background color
  pair = NCurses::ColorPair.new(1).init(NCurses::Color::RED, NCurses::Color::BLACK)
  NCurses.bkgd(pair)

  NCurses.erase
  # move the cursor
  NCurses.move(x: 0, y: 1)
  # longname returns the verbose description of the current terminal
  NCurses.addstr(NCurses.longname)

  NCurses.move(x: 0, y: 2)
  NCurses.addstr(NCurses.curses_version)

  NCurses.move(y: 10, x: 20)
  NCurses.addstr("Hello, world!")
  NCurses.refresh

  NCurses.notimeout(true)
  NCurses.getch
end

Examples

See example/ for more examples.

Contributing

  1. Fork it ( https://github.com/[your-github-name]/ncurses/fork )
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  5. Create a new Pull Request

Contributors

  • agatan Naomichi Agata - creator, maintainer

About

NCurses bindings for Crystal

Topics

Resources

License

Stars

Watchers

Forks

Releases

No releases published

Packages

No packages published