styczynski / waccgl

Windows Advanced Console Componental Graphics Library

WACCGL (C/C++ library, Windows)

Windows Advanced Console Componental Graphics Library

Some examples involving WACCGL usage:

TicTacConsole game involves usage of old integrated WACCGL code see...

About

This is just another crazy library, which allows you to create ascii-text graphical user interface inside Windows Command Prompt!

All Feautures:

• Mouse (and scroll wheel) support (little fancy text cursor inside CMD!)
• Fancy GUI inside command prompt
• Handling special event
• Many useful components (like lists, editboxes etc.)

Unfortunately this project isn't well documented yet (try to read the examples). :(

Compiling

The library contains examples files. Makefile commands:

• To get some help type make or make help
• To compile examples use the following command: make all
• To get list of all available examples type: make run-example
• To run an example type: make run-example-NAME (e.g. make run-example-demo)
• To clean project directory use make clean
• To rebuild everything run: make rebuild

Examples

The library contains few examples. You can see them to figure out how to use WACCGL.

• basic.cpp - basic usage
• demo.cpp - demo of some components
• manual-drawing.cpp - some manual buffer manipulation code
• mouse.cpp - simple mouse support
• no-buffer-cleaning.cpp - you don't have to clean up this mess
• scene-animations.cpp - some simple transitions
• windows.cpp - how about an iternal window?
• own-component.cpp - custom component implementation

Support for other OSes

All the library depends on ./include/console.h.

If you want to port this library to linux just rewrite the console.h code.

Supported GUI components:

• Scenes - scene
• Checkboxes - checkbox
• Text frames - textframe
• Component frames - frame
• Ascii image frames - imgframe
• Buttons - button
• Select boxes - selbox / slistbox / listbox
• Expandable lists - exlistbox
• Scrollbars - vscrollbar
• Progressbars - progressbar
• Edit boxes - edittextframe

Of course you can implement any GUI component by extending scene_object class.