clui/README.md

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CLUI

Command Line User Interface (Console UI inspired by TurboVision) with built-in theme support. Please see screenshots of working examples at the end of the README.

Current version

The current version is 0.5.0 and it has a lot of breaking changes comparing to previous one. Please see details in changelog.

Documentation

  • Introduction
  • Getting started
  • Layout manager
  • About Windows

The list of available controls

  • Window (Main control container - with maximize, window order and other window features)
  • Label (Horizontal and Vertical with basic color control tags)
  • Button (Simple push button control)
  • EditField (One line text edit control with basic clipboard control)
  • ListBox (string list control with vertical scroll)
  • TextView (ListBox-alike control with vertical and horizontal scroll, and wordwrap mode)
  • ProgressBar (Vertical and horizontal. The latter one supports custom text over control)
  • Frame (A decorative control that can be a container for other controls as well)
  • CheckBox (Simple check box)
  • Radio (Simple radio button. Useless alone - should be used along with RadioGroup)
  • RadioGroup (Non-visual control to manage a group of a few RadioButtons)
  • ConfirmationDialog (modal View to ask a user confirmation, button titles are custom)
  • SelectDialog (modal View to ask a user to select an item from the list - list can be ListBox or RadioGroup)
  • BarChart (Horizontal bar chart without scroll)
  • SparkChart (Show tabular data as a bar graph)
  • GridView (Table to show structured data - only virtual and readonly mode with scroll support)

Screenshots

The main demo (theme changing and radio group control)

Main Demo

The screencast of demo:

Library Demo

The library is in the very beginning but it can be used to create working utilities: below is the example of my Dilbert comix downloader:

Dilbert Downloader