BEFORE YOU GO ANY FURTHER, this is a WIP!!! This is not to be used for ANYTHING IMPORTANT WHATSOEVER!!! This is my first time using SWIG and my first time developing a Ruby extension. It's got very basic functionality working, but only works on Linux right now. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!!
This is a SWIG-generated Ruby extension for Notcurses, a truly 31337 library for developing TUIs. Notcurses is a modern reimagining of the classic Curses library known to many. It supports true color, has built-in widgets and many other nice-to-haves that aren't present in curses, and probably never will be. Note that while Notcurses will be familiar to anyone who has worked with curses, it is not a drop-in replacement. The API is definitely different.
https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses
You should install swig first via your OS package management system. If swig can't be found, the default generated code will be used which was generated on a modern Linux system (Ubuntu 22 LTS).
Otherwise it's just your typical gem install notcurses.
This is JUST the extension- which puts all the functions and constants under the Notcurses namespace. I will be developing a more idiomatic object model to interface with this in a separate project, which gives you the freedom to choose the raw extension or the full on object-oriented style.
Everything is pretty much in ext. The swig interface (notcurses.i) is the main thing, with a couple of overridden/wrapper functions for things that take va_list args cause swig doesn't yet have a built-in facility to translating from ruby's variadics to va_list. The notcurses_wrap.c is what SWIG auto- generates. It's committed to the repo just as a fallback if SWIG isn't in- stalled on the local machine but that isn't really a great idea anyways.
If you are new to curses stuff, you will need to be reminded that you will need to use pry-remote to debug since the terminal will be controlled by notcurses.
Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/slithernix/notcurses.
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