Notcurses: Blingful character graphics/TUI library

Post by torgoguys » Sat, Feb 03, 2024, 1:34 AM UTC

wyldfire wrote: post #11

schaefer wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is a screenshot [1]. [1]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/gh-...

Are those dots just like a density map/gradient? Or are they real symbols / characters?

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Feb 03, 2024, 2:08 AM UTC

pimlottc wrote: post #6

schaefer wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is a screenshot [1]. [1]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/gh-...

Yes, but that’s both fairly far down the page and not really a good example of what an actually application might look like

Post by maxbond » Sat, Feb 03, 2024, 2:16 AM UTC

tux1968 wrote: post #10

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Post by russellendicott » Sat, Feb 03, 2024, 2:42 AM UTC

wolletd wrote: post #4

For the handful slightly fancy TUI applications I wrote, I had some fun in just using raw escape sequences. I really like the buildkit output style, I couldn't figure out how to do something like this – multiline output without a full-term application – with curses, so I did it myself.

Post by ilaksh » Sat, Feb 03, 2024, 3:15 AM UTC

agadius wrote: post #5

pimlottc wrote: post #2

The name is a bit close to “ncurses”. Also a screenshot early on would be helpful to illustrate what it can be used for.

There’s also a yt video showing a demo that can be run after installing notcurses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcjkezf1ARY Pretty hefty.