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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 | 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 70s and appears to pre-date UNIX even. | ||
==Implementations== | ==Implementations== | ||
Note that PDCurses is just one of | Note that PDCurses is just one of many curses libraries out there. [[nCurses]], P Curses and PC Curses exist or have been ported to OS/2 at some point in time. | ||
*BSD curses - included with [[emx]] | *BSD curses - included with [[emx]] | ||
*pcurses | *pcurses | ||
Latest revision as of 00:24, 2 March 2019
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 70s and appears to pre-date UNIX even.
Implementations
Note that PDCurses is just one of many 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, ISBN 0-937175-02-1
- Berny Goodheart: UNIX Curses Explained - Prentice-Hall 1991, ISBN 0-13-931957-3
Links
- X/Open-Standard