Crate easycurses

This is a crate that allows one to easily use a basic form of curses. It is based upon pancurses and so it’s cross platform between windows and unix. It exposes a simplified view of curses functionality where there’s just one Window and all of your actions are called upon a single struct type, EasyCurses. This ensures that curses functions are only called while curses is initialized, and also that curses is always cleaned up at the end (via Drop).

The library can only perform proper automatic cleanup if Rust is allowed to run the Drop implementation. This happens during normal usage, and during an unwinding panic, but if you ever abort the program (either because you compiled with panic=abort or because you panic during an unwind) you lose the cleanup safety. That is why this library specifies panic="unwind" for all build modes, and you should too.

Modules

constants

Special constants for things like drawing ascii art.

Macros

colorpair

A handy macro to make describing color pairs read more like normal english.

Structs

ColorPair

A color pair for a character cell on the screen.

EasyCurses

This is a handle to all your fun curses functionality.

Enums

Color

The curses color constants.

CursorVisibility

The three options you can pass to EasyCurses::set_cursor_visibility.

Input

InputMode

The various input modes that you can set for the terminal.

TimeoutMode

The various timeouts that you can set for get_input to operate with.

Functions

preserve_panic_message

Wraps the use of curses with catch_unwind to preserve panic info.