FTXUI VS CLI11

GitHub repo: ArthurSonzogni/FTXUI

Background: I want to make a NES Tetris) clone for the terminal, with full resolution, this is achievable through using this ▀ character, and defining back and foreground color. This would result in a 1x2 pixel and by making the game width 256x120 characters this would provide full resolution. I made some tests, creating my own encoding for the different sprites and optimizing everything, which resulted in very quick printing times, even with a normal terminal. Nearly fast enough for the full 60Hz that the NES has, when printing the whole screen. The fact that i don't need to reprint the background (except maybe a tetris), makes 60Hz a kinda realistic goal. My main concern is, that there could occur kind of a screen tearing effect, which i really want to avoid. AFAIK, ncurses has a way to print the whole "window" with a function call to avoid this issue, however I had a lot of issues when trying to use ncurses to print the entire background and figured, that there are better alternatives. I also tried FTXUI and whilst the experience of giving each "pixel" a fore- and background color was much better, i didn't quite find a way to refresh the screen like ncurses. (i think there is some kind of way with the ScreenInteractive class, but i didn't get that to work, and it seemed like there was not a way to color each pixel. with InteractiveScreen you can make your own components with the whole "text()" thing, but this isn't really what i need)

Try this library for console https://github.com/ArthurSonzogni/FTXUI

Depends on which level of "UI" you want. Personally I like https://github.com/ArthurSonzogni/FTXUI , but if you want to do those old TUI things then probably the (n/pd)curses libraries.

I find openMVG very decent, FTXUI might be a good one and nlohmann's json library is also pretty nice. I don't really know of any project that strictly adheres to the core guidelines, except maybe for some of Jason Turner's (sample) projects.

Okay stupid suggestion I know but I've recently been learning the FTX UI library which basically adds a little bit of UI programming to the terminal and it has canvas that lets you plot pixel by pixel.

No affiliation with any ponzi schemes https://github.com/ArthurSonzogni/FTXUI

Book: CLI11 book

The most feature-rich C++ CLI library is CLI11. Other popular choices include Boost.ProgramOptions, argparse, cxxopts and others.

CLI11 provides all the features you expect in a powerful command line parser, with a beautiful, minimal syntax and no dependencies beyond C++11. itk-wasm enhances CLI11 with a itk::wasm::Pipeline wrapper to support efficient execution in multiple Wasm contexts, scientific data structures, and lovely colorized help output 🥰.

Does anyone have feedback on the possible problems with CLI11 and comparisons to any other thing available in the wild not limited to the choices I tried before? Looks like a very well-thought out library according to its documentation: https://cliutils.github.io/CLI11/book/

I'd recommend to use CLI11. I was baffled by how much it can do.

I use https://github.com/jarro2783/cxxopts.git or https://github.com/CLIUtils/CLI11, or if boost is involved anyway, boost.program_options.

get_dependency(spdlog "https://github.com/gabime/spdlog" v1.8.5) get_dependency(CLI11 "https://github.com/CLIUtils/CLI11" v1.9.1) get_dependency(GoogleTest "https://github.com/google/googletest" master)

Maybe https://github.com/CLIUtils/CLI11? I really like this one and it looks like it supports TOML

I found https://github.com/jarro2783/cxxopts to be useful and https://github.com/CLIUtils/CLI11 to be really helpful if you need an non-trivial interface.