FancyTerminal

A lightweight, cross-platform terminal UI (TUI) library written entirely in C. While many TUI libraries exist, few are built from the ground up in pure C (and cross-platform) — FancyTerminal fills that gap with simplicity and full control.

Usage

• First initialize a fancy terminal container

  FancyTerminal *ft=initFancyTerminal();

• Configure the layout (see User Guide for more details)

  setFTLayoutPattern(
  ft,
  2,5,
  "1 1 0 2 2,"
  "1 1 0 2 2,"
  );

• Create UI elements and add them

  FTElement *button=createFTButton("Button");                            
  addToFancyTerminal(ft,button);
  
  FTElement *textField=createFTTextField("Text Hint","");    
  addToFancyTerminal(ft,text_field);

• Register event handlers (optional)

  ft_connect(move_btn, FT_EVENT_CLICK, myFunction, NULL);

• Finally, Start the TUI loop

  enterFancyTerminal(ft);

Demo

Building the Demo

git clone https://github.com/alfaiajanon/FancyTerminal.git
cd FancyTerminal
cd build
cmake .
make

External Library

rogueutil is used to bring cross platform support

Documentation

• User Guide