ncurses vs newt

ncurses

snapshots of ncurses - see http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html (no pull requests are accepted) (by ThomasDickey)

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newt

Mirror of https://pagure.io/newt.git (by mlichvar)

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ncurses		newt
	Project
2	Mentions	4
66	Stars	47
-	Growth	-
7.8	Activity	5.0
8 days ago	Latest Commit	6 months ago
C	Language	C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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ncurses

Posts with mentions or reviews of ncurses. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-30.

ncurses alternatives - S-Lang, termbox, and rang
4 projects | 30 Dec 2021
notty alternatives - FINAL CUT, ncurses, and notty
4 projects | 28 Dec 2021

newt

Posts with mentions or reviews of newt. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-30.

Does anyone know what the tasksel UI is called?
1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 20 Jul 2022

Those text interfaces are generated using the newt library — most likely using the whiptail binary.
Newt library for TUI
1 project | /r/suckless | 18 Jul 2022

Are you referring to pagure.io/newt?
making menus
1 project | /r/C_Programming | 23 May 2022

The newt library is the basis for Debian's whiptail, which is a shell tool to generate text user interfaces.
newt alternatives - S-Lang, termbox, and Lanterna
4 projects | 30 Dec 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ncurses and newt you can also consider the following projects:

PDCurses - A curses library for environments that don't fit the termcap/terminfo model.

FINAL CUT - A text-based widget toolkit.

FTXUI - Features: - Functional style. Inspired by [1] and React - Simple and elegant syntax (in my opinion). - Support for UTF8 and fullwidth chars (→ 测试). - No dependencies. - Cross platform. Linux/mac (main target), Windows (experimental thanks to contributors), - WebAssembly. - Keyboard & mouse navigation. Operating systems: - linux emscripten - linux gcc - linux clang - windows msvc - mac clang

Vaca - C++ Win32 wrapper to develop GUI apps

WTF - Windows Template Framework

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

Slint - Slint is a toolkit to efficiently develop fluid graphical user interfaces for any display: embedded devices and desktop applications. We support multiple programming languages, such as Rust, C++ or JavaScript. [Moved to: https://github.com/slint-ui/slint]

wxWidgets - Cross-Platform C++ GUI Library

curses - Crystal bindings to the curses library

libui - Simple and portable (but not inflexible) GUI library in C that uses the native GUI technologies of each platform it supports.

Ultra Engine Documentation - Documentation contents for Ultra Engine