cview - Terminal-based user interface toolkit

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

Demo

ssh cview.rocket9labs.com -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 codeberg.org/tslocum/cview

Hello World

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

package main

import (
	"codeberg.org/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).