FINAL CUT VS Turbo Vision

PSA: Not Apple's Final Cut, but rather this:

https://github.com/gansm/finalcut

Visit the GitHub repository to get the latest version.

Maybe FINAL CUT is something for you. It has its own widgets and can be controlled with the mouse or keyboard.

The reason for my posting is not the XPM viewer. The primary reason was the data processing class, which allows you to display logos or other simple graphics in your programs.

I implemented for FINAL CUT a simple data processing class and an image viewer for X PixMap (XPM) images. It allows displaying XPM icons in the terminal. Maybe someone will find it helpful.

If you want to write in C++, you can have a look at my small TUI framework FINAL CUT.

With FPC, you can use Free Vision, which is a supposed to be like a remake of the old Borland Turbo Vision. Alternatively for C++.

Talking about a window display from byte array sounds like windowing for a purely text based (console based) user interface, like the 1990's Borland's old Turbo Vision. There are modern ports of Turbo Vision, e.g. superquick googling found one at GitHub.

there is also a port of the "original":

https://github.com/magiblot/tvision

A modern port of Turbo Vision 2.0, the classical framework for text-based user interfaces. Now cross-platform and with Unicode support.

It's been an absolute joy toying with TV after all this years for some TUI side-projects.

https://github.com/magiblot/tvision

Discovered this : https://github.com/magiblot/tvision