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ez_term
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Introducing EzTerm - A template-based cross-platform Terminal UI framework
I needed to create a UI for a command line app recently, and spoiled as I am creating UI's from config files with Kivy in Python, I decided to create a template-based terminal UI framework for Rust, which became EzTerm. It was just added to cargo, and has a full tutorial available.
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What's everyone working on this week (30/2022)?
I'm still working on EzTerm, a new terminal UI framework based on (YAML-ish) config files. There's been a ton of commits and I plan on releasing it on cargo in august as it has reached a minimally viable state. I'm currently writing docs and examples and fixing bugs.
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Rust TUI libraries
I've noticed the same thing. Tui-rs looks awesome but as you said is not so easy to use. I've decided to try and create an easy-to-use framework myself (EzTerm), and noticed that the borrow-checker definitely introduces some challenges compared to creating a (T)UI framework in some other languages.
Cursive
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Projectable: A TUI file manager built for projects
Rust has great libraries for TUIs. tui-rs (https://github.com/fdehau/tui-rs) has been used in numerous popular applications, but is unmaintained. ratatui (https://github.com/tui-rs-revival/ratatui) is the maintained version, and is pretty new. Less widely known is cursive (https://github.com/gyscos/cursive), which I have yet to try.
Aside from the libraries, I just wanted to start a project that would make be better at Rust. The easy distribution with cargo is a huge bonus though.
- cursive: A Text User Interface library for the Rust programming language
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How difficult is ncurses?
There are plenty of terminal UI libraries that are actually nice to work with. For Python, there's Textual and PyTermGUI. For Rust, there's ratatui and Cursive (or, if you want something a bit lower level, crosster or termion). For Go, there's bubbletea.
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AMDGPU_TOP v0.1.2 - switch to crossterm-backend, add simple fdinfo viewer
Switching the backend of Cursive to crossterm removed dependence on ncurses
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Appreciation post
I'd hear of TUIs so I just searched for tui libraries in Rust and Cursive seemed like a good choice and it turned out great!
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Sharing Saturday #455
This weekend I started porting my game to a different UI library (egui) as a way of familiarizing myself with egui. I don't think I'll have something useable to build off of before this year's 7DRL challenge so I guess I'll be reusing my existing UI code (using cursive). But, once I finish porting the UI it should be a lot easier to add fancy stuff like animations, tooltips, and graphical tiles since I won't be tied to constraints of a terminal UI.
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CLIs and TUIs packages
Cursive should let you easily build a layout with a menu and status bars (and mouse works).
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Dwarf Fortress – randomly generated, persistent fantasy world
The thing that gets me about Dwarf Fortress is that it's a 64-bit text-mode game.
As a grey-haired developer who got excited about "DOS Extenders" that allowed 32-bit mode, seeing a text-mode game written as a native 64-bit application is bizarrely anachronistic.
I get a similar feeling from text-mode GUI frameworks for Rust, which allow multi-threading and 64-bit but are essentially clones of Borland Turbo Vision, where you had to be mindful to keep lists smaller than 64KB: https://github.com/gyscos/cursive
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How to maintain app state in an app using Cursive
Maybe this helps?
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Rust TUI libraries
cursive
What are some alternatives?
cargo-binstall - Binary installation for rust projects
tui-rs - Build terminal user interfaces and dashboards using Rust
velum - Lightweight and minimal blog engine
Termion - Mirror of https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/termion
douglas - A tiny TUI framework built on the Elm architecture.
ncurses-rs - A low-level ncurses wrapper for Rust
hwatch - A modern alternative to the watch command, records the differences in execution results and can check this differences at after.
rustbox - Rust implementation of the termbox library
dioxus - Fullstack GUI library for web, desktop, mobile, and more.
rust-sciter - Rust bindings for Sciter
rans-rs - rANS encoder and decoder for Rust
conrod - An easy-to-use, 2D GUI library written entirely in Rust.