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cview - Terminal-based user interface toolkit

This package is a fork of tview. See FORK.md for more information.

Demo

ssh cview.rocketnine.space -p 20000

Features

Available widgets:

Input forms (including input/password fields, drop-down selections, checkboxes, and buttons)
Navigable multi-color text views
Selectable lists with context menus
Modal dialogs
Horizontal and vertical progress bars
Grid, Flexbox and tabbed panel layouts
Sophisticated navigable table views
Flexible tree views
Draggable and resizable windows
An application wrapper

Widgets may be customized and extended to suit any application.

Mouse support is available.

Applications

A list of applications powered by cview is available via pkg.go.dev.

Installation

go get code.rocketnine.space/tslocum/cview

Hello World

This basic example creates a TextView titled "Hello, World!" and displays it in your terminal:

package main

import (
	"code.rocketnine.space/tslocum/cview"
)

func main() {
	app := cview.NewApplication()

	tv := cview.NewTextView()
	tv.SetBorder(true)
	tv.SetTitle("Hello, world!")
	tv.SetText("Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet")
	
	app.SetRoot(tv, true)
	if err := app.Run(); err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
}

Examples are available via godoc and in the demos directory.

For a presentation highlighting the features of this package, compile and run the program in the demos/presentation directory.

Documentation

Package documentation is available via godoc.

An introduction tutorial is also available.

Dependencies

This package is based on github.com/gdamore/tcell (and its dependencies) and github.com/rivo/uniseg.

Support

CONTRIBUTING.md describes how to share issues, suggestions and patches (pull requests).

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