Is there a package to construct TUI in Julia?

Palli · June 10, 2020, 2:12pm

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I noticed: GitHub - ronisbr/TextUserInterfaces.jl: Text user interfaces for Julia

in the thread here: Help to reduce very long compilation time

There’s also The Julia REPL · The Julia Language
and it was updated yesterday (so only on Julia 1.6 master/nightly). I’m no expert on this, what’s the state-of-the-art (library) in TUIs (for any language)? I believe on Linux ncurses is (almost) always used (and for the library above, so doesn’t work on Windows, except I guess in WSL; but is tested on macOS), while Julia, end thus the merged package works on all platforms. See other threads here, look for “TUI”, but also consider looking for “GUI”. I’m just not sure TUI is a very hot topic for any language.

github.com/JuliaLang/julia

Improve the API of REPL.TerminalMenus (#35915)

committed 07:34AM - 09 Jun 20 UTC

timholy

+762 -229

This overhaul of the `AbstractMenu` extension interface of `REPL.TerminalMenus` …addresses several concerns: - Printing the "paging" navigation indicators was handled by TerminalMenus, but the subtype methods were expected to print the cursor indicator and, for multiple-selection menus, the selection status indicators in a manner that preserved alignment. There was no obvious reason for the inconsistency. - Printing these indicators relied on accessing a mutable private global variable in TerminalMenus. It was therefore not possible to use different settings simultaneously for two different menus (e.g. a main menu and its submenus). - The API required that subtype methods supply a list of strings for each menu-option when really it only needed to know how many options were available. This was particularly problematic for large, dynamic menus whose options might change and for which lists of options would have to be reallocated regularly but were then thrown away after checking their length. This deprecates the old interface in a backward-compatible manner, so is non-breaking.