cview is a terminal-based user interface toolkit. This package is a fork of tview.
Widgets may be customized and extended to suit any application. Mouse support is available
This is free and open source software.
Features include:
Available widgets:
- Input forms (including input/password fields, drop-down selections, checkboxes, and buttons).
- Navigable multi-color text views.
- Selectable lists with context menus.
- Modal dialogs.
- Horizontal and vertical progress bars.
- Grid, Flexbox and tabbed panel layouts.
- Sophisticated navigable table views.
- Flexible tree views.
- Draggable and resizable windows.
- An application wrapper.
Website: codeberg.org/tslocum/cview
Support:
Developer: Trevor Slocum
License: MIT License

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