pancurses

pancurses is a curses libary for Rust that supports both Linux and Windows 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

Linux

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 = "0.6"

main.rs

extern crate pancurses;

use pancurses::{initscr, endwin};

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

Example: Pattern matching with getch()

extern crate pancurses;

use pancurses::{initscr, endwin, Input, noecho};

fn main() {
  let window = initscr();
  window.printw("Type things, press delete to quit\n");
  window.refresh();
  window.keypad(true);
  noecho();
  loop {
      match window.getch() {
          Some(Input::Character(c)) => { window.addch(c); },
          Some(Input::KeyDC) => break,
          Some(input) => { window.addstr(&format!("{:?}", input)); },
          None => ()
      }
  }
  endwin();
}

Status

I'm working through implementing the various functions using the PDCurses demos as a priority list. Version 0.4 has everything that a simple hello world program, the firework example, the rain example need and the newdemo example needs. The 'newtest' demo is done, but not quite all features have been implemented as there was a lot of PDCurses-specific stuff there, and I'd rather implement the shared functions first.

License

Licensed under the MIT license, see LICENSE.md