Alternative to ncurses for modern C++ (TUI)

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  • flatui

    Discontinued Efficient Immediate Mode UI for Games (by google)

  • Curses is the de facto TUI base, but there is no de facto standard C++ wrapper around curses. Google has FlatUI, FTXUI and Notcurses are popular, imtui is directly inspired by Dear ImGui. The list goes on and on, there are plenty of popular TUI libraries that all build upon Curses.

  • 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

  • Curses is the de facto TUI base, but there is no de facto standard C++ wrapper around curses. Google has FlatUI, FTXUI and Notcurses are popular, imtui is directly inspired by Dear ImGui. The list goes on and on, there are plenty of popular TUI libraries that all build upon Curses.

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  • notcurses

    blingful character graphics/TUI library. definitely not curses.

  • Curses is the de facto TUI base, but there is no de facto standard C++ wrapper around curses. Google has FlatUI, FTXUI and Notcurses are popular, imtui is directly inspired by Dear ImGui. The list goes on and on, there are plenty of popular TUI libraries that all build upon Curses.

  • imtui

    ImTui: Immediate Mode Text-based User Interface C++ Library

  • Curses is the de facto TUI base, but there is no de facto standard C++ wrapper around curses. Google has FlatUI, FTXUI and Notcurses are popular, imtui is directly inspired by Dear ImGui. The list goes on and on, there are plenty of popular TUI libraries that all build upon Curses.

  • colors

    Put 24-bit color, nonblocking IO and mouse support into your terminal programs (by ShakaUVM)

  • termbox2

    suckless terminal rendering library

  • FINAL CUT

    A text-based widget toolkit.

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

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