curses vs newt

curses

Crystal bindings to the curses library (by ruivieira)

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newt

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

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curses		newt
	Project
-	Mentions	4
7	Stars	47
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	5.0
about 5 years ago	Latest Commit	6 months ago
Crystal	Language	C
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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curses

Posts with mentions or reviews of curses. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

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 curses and newt you can also consider the following projects:

snappy-crystal

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

glfw - GLFW bindings for Crystal

FINAL CUT - A text-based widget toolkit.

gphoto2.cr - Crystal shard wrapping libgphoto2

Vaca - C++ Win32 wrapper to develop GUI apps

termbox-crystal - Bindings, wrapper, and utilities for termbox (terminal interface library) in Crystal

WTF - Windows Template Framework

wkhtmltopdf-crystal - Crystal C bindings and wrapper for libwkhtmltox library

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]

crt.cr - Bindings for libncursesw and crt class

Ultra Engine Documentation - Documentation contents for Ultra Engine