pancurses

pancurses is a curses libary for Rust that supports both Unix and Windows platforms by abstracting away the backend that it uses (ncurses-rs and pdcurses-sys respectively).

The aim is to provide a more Rustic interface over the usual curses functions for ease of use while remaining close enough to curses to make porting easy.

Documentation

Requirements

Unix platforms

ncurses-rs links with the native ncurses library so that needs to be installed so that the linker can find it.

Check ncurses-rs for more details.

Windows

pdcurses-sys compiles the native PDCurses library as part of the build process, so you need to have a compatible C compiler available that matches the ABI of the version of Rust you're using (so either gcc for the GNU ABI or cl for MSVC)

Check pdcurses-sys for more details.

Usage

Cargo.toml

[dependencies]

pancurses = "0.2"

main.rs

extern crate pancurses;

use pancurses::{initscr, endwin};

fn main() {
  let window = initscr();
  window.printw("Hello Rust");
  window.refresh();
  window.getch();
  endwin();
}

Status

I'm working through implementing the various functions using the PDCurses demos as a priority list. Version 0.2 has everything that a simple hello world program, the firework example and the rain example need. For 0.3 I'll select one of the remaining demos.

License

Licensed under the MIT license, see LICENSE.md