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TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool

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Re: TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool

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Post by eterps »

banach wrote: post #19
eterps wrote: post #16

This is nonsensical, there is nothing textual about the UIs being shown here. It doesn't stop being a GUI if you have a 1:1 representation of the concept within character cells. The UX actually matters, and TUIs are generally built for effectiveness and power (lazygit being an excellent example). But once you start adding mouse clickable tabs, buttons, checkboxes etc. you left the UX for TUIs behind and applied the U…

One justification for TUIs is remote access over SSH.

Sure, but my point was that UX matters for TUIs. A TUI with a UX that fits its paradigm , again like lazygit, works great over SSH.

Re: TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool

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Post by worthless-trash »

The corners of the boxes appear in the wrong place in the cell.

I don't think there is utf8 characters that allow for drawing on the outside of the cell, (happy to be wrong)

┌ (U+250C), ┐ (U+2510), └ (U+2514), ┘ (U+2518) ｢ (U+FF62), ⌟, (U+231F), ｢┐└｣

Can anyone tells me how to get those 'corner of cell' characters, including uprights and horizontals ?

Re: TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool

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Post by theowaway213456 »

banach wrote: post #19
eterps wrote: post #16

This is nonsensical, there is nothing textual about the UIs being shown here. It doesn't stop being a GUI if you have a 1:1 representation of the concept within character cells. The UX actually matters, and TUIs are generally built for effectiveness and power (lazygit being an excellent example). But once you start adding mouse clickable tabs, buttons, checkboxes etc. you left the UX for TUIs behind and applied the U…

One justification for TUIs is remote access over SSH.

You can tunnel a port over SSH and get a web UI locally, though it's not commonly done. I feel like more people would actually do this if tunneling a port was just ever so slightly easier (like, you're already SSH'd into a box, then you run a command, then you somehow automatically get a tunnel for that command's UI port plus a local browser window open to the page)

Re: TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool

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Post by jbstack »

Interesting idea, but:

> Design once, generate production-ready code for your framework of choice. Switch targets without touching your design. Alpha notice: Code export is not functional yet. We're actively working on it — check back soon.

In other words, it isn't at all usable right now. You can't produce a TUI with it, not even a limited one.

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