nsf / termbox-go

IMPORTANT This library is somewhat not maintained anymore. But I'm glad that it did what I wanted the most. It moved people away from "ncurses" mindset and these days we see both re-implementations of termbox API in various languages and even possibly better libs with similar API design. If you're looking for a Go lib that provides terminal-based user interface facilities, I've heard that gdamore/tcell is good (never used it myself). Also for more complicated interfaces and/or computer games I recommend you to consider using HTML-based UI. Having said that, termbox still somewhat works. In fact I'm writing this line of text right now in godit (which is a text editor written using termbox-go). So, be aware. Good luck and have a nice day. Termbox Termbox is a library that provides a minimalistic API which allows the programmer to write text-based user interfaces. The library is crossplatform and has both terminal-based implementations on \*nix operating systems and a winapi console based implementation for windows operating systems. The basic idea is an abstraction of the greatest common subset of features available on all major terminals and other terminal-like APIs in a minimalistic fashion. Small API means it is easy to implement, test, maintain and learn it, that's what makes the termbox a distinct library in its area. Installation Install and update this go package with Examples For examples of what can be done take a look at various examples in the directory. You can try them with go run: There are also some interesting projects using termbox-go: • godit is an emacsish lightweight text editor written using termbox. • gotetris is an implementation of Tetris. • sokoban-go is an implementation of sokoban game. • hecate is a hex editor designed by Satan. • httopd is top for httpd logs. • mop is stock market tracker for hackers. • termui is a terminal dashboard. • termloop is a terminal game engine. • xterm-color-chart is a XTerm 256 color chart. • gocui is a minimalist Go library aimed at creating console user interfaces. • dry is an interactive cli to manage Docker containers. • pxl displays images in the terminal. • snake-game is an implementation of the Snake game. • gone is a CLI pomodoro® timer. • Spoof.go controllable movement spoofing from the cli. • rat lets you compose shell commands to build terminal applications. • httplab An interactive web server. • wot Wait time during command is completed. • 2048-go is 2048 in Go. • jv helps you view JSON on the command-line. • pinger helps you to monitor numerous hosts using ICMP ECHO_REQUEST. • vixl44 lets you create pixel art inside your terminal using vim movements. • zterm is a typing game inspired by http://zty.pe/. • gotypist is a fun touch-typing tutor following Steve Yegge's method. • cointop is an interactive terminal based UI application for tracking cryptocurrencies. • pexpo is a terminal sending ping tool written in Go. • jid is an interactive JSON drill down tool using filtering queries like jq. • nonograminGo is a nonogram (aka. picross) in Go. • tower-of-go is a tiny maze game that runs on the terminal.