Terminal TUI Programs

We can use various TUI libraries to develop terminal graphical interface programs, such as ncurses, ftxui, etc.

Ncurses

Ncurses is a classic terminal graphics library. We can use add_requires("ncurses") to integrate it.

EXPLORER

src

main.cpp

xmake.lua

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add_rules("mode.debug", "mode.release")

add_requires("ncurses")

target("ncurses_tui")
    set_kind("binary")
    add_files("src/*.cpp")
    add_packages("ncurses")

FTXUI

FTXUI is a modern C++ functional terminal user interface library.

EXPLORER

src

main.cpp

xmake.lua

Lua xmake.lua

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add_rules("mode.debug", "mode.release")

add_requires("ftxui")

target("ftxui_tui")
    set_kind("binary")
    set_languages("c++17")
    add_files("src/*.cpp")
    add_packages("ftxui")

Build and Run

$ xmake
$ xmake run