Registered by Paul "LeoNerd" Evans

This library provides an abstracted mechanism for building interactive full-screen terminal programs. It provides a full set of output drawing functions, and handles keyboard and mouse input events.

Using this library, applications can

    Divide the terminal into a hierarchy of nested, possibly-overlapping rectangular windows
    Render output content and react to input events independently in any window region
    Use fully Unicode-aware string content, including non-BMP, fullwidth and combining characters
    Draw line-art using Unicode box-drawing characters in a variety of styles
    Operate synchronously or asynchronously via file descriptors, or abstractly via byte buffers
    Recognise arbitrary keyboard input, including modifiers*
    Make use of multiple terminals, if availble, from a single application

The following terminal features are supported:

    Many rendering attributes; bold, italics*, underline, reverse, strikethough*, alternate font*
    256 and 24-bit (16million) colours*
    Mouse including mouse wheel and recognition of position reporting greater than 224 columns*
    Arbitrary scrolling regions*

*: Not all terminals may support these features

Project information

Maintainer:
Tickit
Driver:
Paul "LeoNerd" Evans
Licence:
MIT / X / Expat Licence

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Programming languages:
C

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