NCurses provides a Raku native interface to the ncurses library for
terminal-independent screen I/O.
use NCurses;
# Initialize curses window
my $win = initscr() or die "Failed to initialize ncurses\n";
start_color;
# Initialize colors
init_pair(1, COLOR_WHITE, COLOR_RED);
init_pair(2, COLOR_WHITE, COLOR_BLUE);
# Print Hello World
color_set(1, 0);
mvaddstr( 10, 10, " Hello world " );
color_set(2, 0);
mvaddstr( LINES() - 2, 2, "Press any key to exit..." );
# Refresh (this is needed)
nc_refresh;
# Wait for a keypress
getch;
# Cleanup
LEAVE {
delwin($win) if $win;
endwin;
}For more examples, please see the examples folder.
- On Debian-based linux distributions, please use the following command:
$ sudo apt-get install libncurses6
- On Mac OS X, please use the following command:
$ brew update
$ brew install ncurses
- Using zef (a module management tool bundled with Rakudo Star):
$ zef install NCurses
The following environment variables can be used to specify the location of the
different ncurses libraries:
RAKU_NCURSES_LIBRAKU_NCURSES_PANEL_LIBRAKU_NCURSES_MENU_LIBRAKU_NCURSES_FORM_LIB
- To fix a broken or messed up terminal after a crash, please type
resetto reset your terminal into its original state.
- To run tests:
$ prove -ve "raku -Ilib"
- To run all tests including author tests (Please make sure Test::Meta is installed):
$ zef install Test::META
$ AUTHOR_TESTING=1 prove -e "raku -Ilib"
Ahmad M. Zawawi, azawawi on #raku, https://github.com/azawawi/
MIT License