Hacking the planet with Notcurses: a guide to TUIs (2020) [pdf]
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Re: Hacking the planet with Notcurses: a guide to TUIs (2020) [pdf]
#2Curses and notcurses have their place but I still miss the simplicity of borland's conio.h implementation. Also remember that visual basic was initially written for DOS. Having a open source multiplatform text mode visual basic would be interesting.
Re: Hacking the planet with Notcurses: a guide to TUIs (2020) [pdf]
#3TIL of notcurses
"Notcurses is licensed under Apache2, a demonstration that I have transcended your petty world of material goods, fiat currencies, and closed sources. Implement Microsoft Bob in it. Charge rubes for it. Put it in your ballistic missiles so that you have a nice LED display of said missile's speed and projected yield; right before impact, scroll "FUCK YOU" in all the world's languages, and close it out with a smart palette fade. Carve the compiled objects onto bricks and mail them to Richard Stallman, taunting him through a bullhorn as you do so."
This inspires me
Re: Hacking the planet with Notcurses: a guide to TUIs (2020) [pdf]
#4I’ve been reading this recently to get up to speed with Notcurses, it’s fantastic. Funny, engaging, and a surprisingly good general overview of how terminals work.
One thing to note: it was written for an older version of Notcurses. So some of the details aren’t 100% up to date, but it covers the fundamentals.
Re: Hacking the planet with Notcurses: a guide to TUIs (2020) [pdf]
#5The author of Notcurses released version 3.0.0 several days ago, a ton of work went into that!
https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/releases/tag/v3.0....
Re: Hacking the planet with Notcurses: a guide to TUIs (2020) [pdf]
#6Curses and notcurses have their place but I still miss the simplicity of borland's conio.h implementation. Also remember that visual basic was initially written for DOS. Having a open source multiplatform text mode visual basic would be interesting.
Not exactly what you’re describing, but check out Final Cut: https://github.com/gansm/finalcut
Re: Hacking the planet with Notcurses: a guide to TUIs (2020) [pdf]
#7Ok, if you're looking into notcurses, you may want to watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcjkezf1ARY (~ 6')
the WTF effect that video had on me lasted quite a while.
I still can't describe it.
Re: Hacking the planet with Notcurses: a guide to TUIs (2020) [pdf]
#8Curses and notcurses have their place but I still miss the simplicity of borland's conio.h implementation. Also remember that visual basic was initially written for DOS. Having a open source multiplatform text mode visual basic would be interesting.
Not exactly what you’re describing, but check out Final Cut: https://github.com/gansm/finalcut
Screenshot are cool! I remember someone had maintained the open source implementation of turbo vision. I don't hear about it for a long time, so I think it was abandoned and it had to make a few changes to workaround turbo vision unsafeness. This one seems cool!
Re: Hacking the planet with Notcurses: a guide to TUIs (2020) [pdf]
#9Happy was the day I gave up on curses and just started splatting crap at the terminal with my own control codes.
For too long did I think that curses was the one and only way to do anything with a terminal.
Re: Hacking the planet with Notcurses: a guide to TUIs (2020) [pdf]
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not exactly what you’re describing, but check out Final Cut: https://github.com/gansm/finalcut
Screenshot are cool! I remember someone had maintained the open source implementation of turbo vision. I don't hear about it for a long time, so I think it was abandoned and it had to make a few changes to workaround turbo vision unsafeness. This one seems cool!
A modern port of Turbo Vision 2.0: https://github.com/magiblot/tvision