libtickit, Terminal Interface Construction Kit

This library provides an abstracted mechanism for building interactive full-screen terminal programs. It provides a full set of output drawing functions, and handles keyboard and mouse input events.

Using this library, applications can

Divide the terminal into a hierarchy of nested, possibly-overlapping rectangular windows
Render output content and react to input events independently in any window region
Use fully Unicode-aware string content, including non-BMP, fullwidth and combining characters
Draw line-art using Unicode box-drawing characters in a variety of styles
Operate synchronously or asynchronously via file descriptors, or abstractly via byte buffers
Recognise arbitrary keyboard input, including modifiers^*
Make use of multiple terminals, if availble, from a single application

The following terminal features are supported:

Many rendering attributes; bold, italics^*, underline, reverse, strikethough^*, alternate font^*
256 and 24-bit (16million) colours^*
Mouse including mouse wheel and recognition of position reporting greater than 224 columns^*
Arbitrary scrolling regions^*

^*: Not all terminals may support these features

Project Management

The main project management site, containing bug lists, feature blueprints, roadmaps, and a mirror of the source code is found on Launchpad, at launchpad.net/libtickit.

Documentation

Online versions of the manpages are available in HTML form.

Source

The primary upstream revision control system lives in Bazaar at http://bazaar.leonerd.org.uk/c/libtickit.

A fast-import mirror of this is maintained on github at https://github.com/leonerd/libtickit. Currently this mirror is an experiment at bzr-to-git gatewaying so I don't guarantee I won't have to force-push this again sometime.

This is also mirrored by the Launchpad project above.