[–]▶ 825ec4 (9) No.3909 >>3940 >>3955 >>4392 [Watch Thread][Show All Posts]
Hello /prog/!
Learning myself C at a steady and slow pace. Now I've learn that creating even the most simple TUI using printf is bloody murder. So I've decided to take it to the next level.
Can anyone please tell me if there's a good tutorial on how to create terminals using <curses.h> (or some other library).
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▶ 825ec4 (9) No.3923
I, too, am interested in a good tutorial.
Everything I've seen is shit.
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▶ 825ec4 (9) No.3940>>3947 >>3955
>>3909 (OP)
As far as I can tell, the most common library for this kind of thing is ncurses. The original curses was discontinued long ago.
I haven't done much ncurses programming myself, but this here seems reasonably thorough: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/
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▶ 825ec4 (9) No.3947>>3952
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▶ 825ec4 (9) No.3952>>3953
>>3947
Pirate Visual Basic for DOS.
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▶ 825ec4 (9) No.3953
>>3952
>Visual Basic for DOS
Seems cool! And does that code transslate to C code?
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▶ 825ec4 (9) No.3955>>3959
>>3940
>>3909 (OP)
This one is ok OP, just remember that you have to use pdcurses if you want it to be remotely portable.
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▶ 825ec4 (9) No.3959
>>3955
Thanks! But the terminal is to make it easier for me to explore and develop core mechanics.
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▶ 825ec4 (9) No.4392
>>3909 (OP)
Curses programs don't tend to look nearly as good as that pic. That looks more like something made with the old DOS Borland TurboVision library. Anyway, Borland eventually released the source code for that library, and you might even get it to compile on your OS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Vision
You can still make nice stuff in Curses, but it's more work, and usually ends up looking more basic and less consistent than stuff made with TV.
There's also the S-Lang library, and various other alternatives.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Lang_(programming_library)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_user_interface
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