Cursive
Cursive is a TUI library - it lets you easily build rich interfaces for use in a terminal.
Getting started
- Every application should start with a [
Cursive
] object. It is the main entry-point to the library. - A declarative phase then describes the structure of the UI by adding views and configuring their behaviours.
- Finally, the event loop is started by calling [
Cursive::run
].
Views
Views are the main components of a cursive interface.
The [views
] module contains many views to use in your
application; if you don't find what you need, you may also implement the
[View
] trait and build your own.
Callbacks
Cursive is callback-driven: it reacts to events generated by user input.
During the declarative phase, callbacks are set to trigger on specific
events. These functions usually take an &mut Cursive
argument, allowing
them to modify the view tree at will.
Examples
use Cursive;
use TextView;
let mut siv = dummy;
siv.add_layer;
siv.add_global_callback;
siv.run;
Debugging
The Cursive
root initializes the terminal on creation, and does cleanups
on drop. While it is alive, printing to the terminal will not work
as expected, making debugging a bit harder.
One solution is to redirect stderr to a file when running the application, and log to it instead of stdout.
Or you can use gdb as usual.