hscurses -- A Haskell Binding to ncurses
=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+hscurses is a Haskell binding to the ncurses library, a library of functions that manage an application's display on character-cell terminals. hscurses also provides some basic widgets implemented on top of the ncurses binding, such as a text input widget and a table widget.
The hscurses library has been reported to work on Linux x86 using GHC 6.12.1, 7.0.3 and 7.2.1.
Requirements:
Build and installation steps:
runhaskell Setup.hs configure runhaskell Setup.hs build runhaskell Setup.hs install
In order to generate the API documentation, you need haddock (http://www.haskell.org/haddock). The command is then:
runhaskell Setup.hs haddock
Just add the flag `-package hscurses' to the compiler flags. At the moment, user documentation is only available through Haddock API documentation.
Windows support relies on pdcurses (http://pdcurses.sourceforge.net/), which is already packaged for MinGW (http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MinGW/PDCurses/PDCurses-3.4-1/) and can be installed with mingw-get.
Thanks to José Romildo Malaquias (malaquias@gmail.com) for porting hscurses to the windows platform!
There is also a detailed installation instruction by Ilan Godik (https://medium.com/@NightRa): https://medium.com/@NightRa/installing-hscurses-on-windows-830532d3268a
John Meacham <john @ repetae . net>, 2002-2004. Tuomo Valkonen <tuomov @ iki.fi>, 2004. Don Stewart http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons, 2004. Stefan Wehr http://www.stefanwehr.de, 2004-2011.
John Meacham started the binding for his chat client Ginsu (http://repetae.net/john/computer/ginsu/).
Tuomo Valkonen integrated to code into Riot (http://modeemi.fi/~tuomov/riot/), with minor modifications.
Don Stewart improved the code for the Yi editor (http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/yi.html).
Stefan Wehr turned the binding into a standalone library. He also added some basic widgets.