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Libraries for character oriented user interfaces with standardised UNIX functions that provide rudimentary screen handling and updating of text-based windowing. It is a very basic [[API]] and is commonly used on UNIX like systems as a sort of lowest common denominator for a text user interface. Curses libraries are available for various operating systems. Although most commonly used with a text mode [[C]] programs the API can also be used from other programming languages and is quite often used with scripting languages such as [[REXX]] | Libraries for character oriented user interfaces with standardised UNIX functions that provide rudimentary screen handling and updating of text-based windowing. It is a very basic [[API]] and is commonly used on UNIX like systems as a sort of lowest common denominator for a text user interface. Curses libraries are available for various operating systems. Although most commonly used with a text mode [[C]] programs the API can also be used from other programming languages and is quite often used with scripting languages such as [[REXX]]. | ||
The name "curses" is a pun on "cursor optimization" and the software concept and name it traces its roots to terminal libraries from the early 70's and appears to pre-date UNIX even. | |||
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*[[PD Curses]] | *[[PD Curses]] | ||
*[[NCurses]] - requires GNU terminfo | *[[NCurses]] - requires GNU terminfo | ||
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*[[Rexx/Curses]] | |||
==Publications== | ==Publications== | ||
Revision as of 12:35, 26 October 2018
Libraries for character oriented user interfaces with standardised UNIX functions that provide rudimentary screen handling and updating of text-based windowing. It is a very basic API and is commonly used on UNIX like systems as a sort of lowest common denominator for a text user interface. Curses libraries are available for various operating systems. Although most commonly used with a text mode C programs the API can also be used from other programming languages and is quite often used with scripting languages such as REXX.
The name "curses" is a pun on "cursor optimization" and the software concept and name it traces its roots to terminal libraries from the early 70's and appears to pre-date UNIX even.
Implementations
Note that PDCurses is just one of may curses libraries out there. nCurses, P Curses and PC Curses exist or have been ported to OS/2 at some point in time.
- REXX
Publications
- John Strang: Programming with curses - O’Reilly 1986
Links
- X/Open-Standard