vty: A simple terminal access library

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vty is terminal GUI library in the niche of ncurses. It is intended to be easy to use, have no confusing corner cases, and good support for common terminal types.

Included in the source distribution is a program test/interactive_terminal_test.hs that demonstrates the various features.

If your terminal is not behaving as expected the results of the test/interactive_terminal_test.hs program should be sent to the Vty maintainter to aid in debugging the issue.

Notable infelicities: Sometimes poor efficiency; Assumes UTF-8 character encoding support by the terminal;

You can 'darcs get' it from http://code.haskell.org/vty/

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Dependencies	array, base (==4.), bytestring, containers, deepseq (==1.1.), ghc-prim, mtl (>=1.1.1.0 && <2.1), parallel (>=2.2 && <3.2), parsec (>=2 && <4), terminfo (==0.3.), unix, utf8-string (==0.3.) [details]
License	BSD-3-Clause
Author	Stefan O'Rear, Corey O'Connor
Maintainer	Corey O'Connor (coreyoconnor@gmail.com)
Category	User Interfaces
Home page	http://trac.haskell.org/vty/
Uploaded	by CoreyOConnor at Sat Dec 11 23:36:05 UTC 2010
Distributions	Arch:5.25.1, Debian:5.21, LTSHaskell:5.25.1, NixOS:5.25.1, Stackage:5.25.1
Downloads	44603 total (1114 in the last 30 days)
Rating	2.0 (votes: 1) [estimated by rule of succession]
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Status	Docs not available [build log] All reported builds failed as of 2016-12-28 [all 5 reports]

Modules

Graphics
- Graphics.Vty
  - Graphics.Vty.Attributes
  - Graphics.Vty.DisplayRegion
  - Graphics.Vty.Inline
  - Graphics.Vty.LLInput
  - Graphics.Vty.Picture
  - Graphics.Vty.Terminal

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vty-4.6.0.2.tar.gz [browse] (Cabal source package)
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vty is a terminal interface library.

Vty currently provides:

* Automatic handling of window resizes.

* Supports Unicode characters on output, automatically setting and
  resetting UTF-8 mode for xterm. Other terminals are assumed to support 

* Efficient output. 

* Minimizes repaint area, thus virtually eliminating the flicker
  problem that plagues ncurses programs.

* A pure, compositional interface for efficiently constructing display
  images.

* Automatically decodes keyboard keys into (key,[modifier]) tuples.

* Automatically supports refresh on Ctrl-L.

* Automatically supports timeout after 50ms for lone ESC (a barely
  noticable delay)

* Interface is designed for relatively easy compatible extension.

* Supports all ANSI SGR-modes (defined in console_codes(4)) with
  a type-safe interface. 

* Properly handles cleanup.

Current disadvantages:

* The character encoding of the output terminal is assumed to be UTF-8.

* Minimal support for special keys on terminals other than the
  linux-console.  (F1-5 and arrow keys should work, but anything
  shifted isn't likely to.)

* Uses the TIOCGWINSZ ioctl to find the current window size, which
  appears to be limited to Linux and *BSD.

darcs get --tag=vty-4.0.0.1 http://code.haskell.org/vty/

To compile the demonstration program: ghc --make test/Test.hs gwinsz.c

The main documentation consists of the haddock-comments and the demonstration
program