[SOLVED] ncurses or something else?

dugan · 06-21-2016, 01:09 PM

I'm interested in playing with a library that can put characters in arbitary screen coordinates. You know how you used to set pixel colors at arbitary coordinates in graphics programming? I'd like to do that with text.

Is ncurses still the best library for that? Or are there better ones now?

I don't need support for colors or for "wide" characters.

millgates · 06-21-2016, 04:09 PM

I'd go with ncurses.
It's simple to use, powerful and portable.
Or you may implement your own solution.

If all you need is printing characters at arbitrary coordinates, this should not be too difficult.

selfprogrammed · 06-30-2016, 11:59 AM

I still put a ncurses port in many of my projects. It is the first to become functional.
The ports to more complicated widget libraries always get stalled because they demand total
submission of control to the widget library. That is fine for your usual point-and-click responding app, but hardly ever works for my projects with independent control loops.