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FINAL CUT

Library for creating terminal applications with text-based widgets

FINAL CUT is a C++ class library and widget toolkit that enables developers to create text-based user interface. It offers full mouse support, UTF-8 character encoding, support for full-width characters, and the capability to display combined unicode characters. The library helps the programmer to create an application for the text console. It allows it to handle multiple text windows on the screen.

The design of FINAL CUT's C++ class structure was inspired by the Qt framework. It offers a variety of general controls, including dialog boxes, push buttons, checkboxes, radio buttons, input lines, list boxes, and status bars.

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Installation

Before installing FINAL CUT, check if your computer meets the requirements. You can find these in the FAQ section under "What do I need to build this library?".

> git clone https://github.com/gansm/finalcut.git
> cd finalcut
> autoreconf --install --force
> ./configure --prefix=/usr
> make
> su -c "make install"

Supported platforms

If your platform is not listed here, it may still be compatible with FINAL CUT. I welcome any help to make this software available on more platforms.

FINAL CUT currently works on the following platforms:

  • Linux
  • FreeBSD
  • NetBSD
  • OpenBSD
  • macOS
  • Cygwin
  • GNU Hurd
  • Solaris

Documentation

See the first steps documentation for information on how to use the library.

Frequently Asked Questions

For general questions about FINAL CUT, likely the answer is already included in the FAQ.

Screenshots

The FFileDialog widget with incremental file name search:

FFileDialog

The FINAL CUT FProgressbar widget:

FProgressbar

Scrollable text in the FTextView widget:

FTextView

The Mandelbrot set example:

Mandelbrot set

FINAL CUT newfont

A graphical text font for X11 and the Linux console.

ui example in newfont mode

Newfont drive symbols:

drive symbols

The calculator example in newfont mode:

calculator

Benchmark

Here you can find a test for measuring the character speed in the terminal.

Virtual terminal

FINAL CUT uses a virtual terminal to print character via an update method on the screen. It provides (as an overlying layer) virtual windows for the realization of window movements. The update methods only transfer differences to the virtual terminal or physical screen.

 print(...)
printf(...)
  │
  │          ╔════════════════════════[ vterm ]════════════════════════╗
  │          ║createVTerm()                                            ║
  │          ║                               ┌ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ┐ ║
  │          ║                                                         ║
  │          ║                               │ restoreVTerm(x,y,w,h) │ ║
  │  ┌───────╨────[ vwin ]────────────┐                                ║
  │  │createArea(area)                │      └ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ┘ ║
  │  │                                │                                ║
  │  │                                │                                ║
  └──┼────────►                  putArea(area) ────►                   ║
     │                                │                                ║
     │                         putArea(x,y,area) ────►                 ║
     │                                │                                ║
     │                   ◄──── getArea(x,y,area)                       ║
     │                                │                                ║
     │                                │                                ║
     │                                │                                ║
     │                resizeArea(area)│                                ║
     └───────╥────────────────────────┘                                ║
             ║                                                         ║
             ║       │                                    resizeVTerm()║
             ╚═══════▼═════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
                     │
                     │   putVTerm()
                     └──────────────────► updateTerminalLine(y)
                       updateTerminal()            │
                                                   ▼
                                           ┌───────────────┐
                                           │ output_buffer │
                                           └───────────────┘
                                                   │
                                                   │ flushOutputBuffer()
                                                   │ and putchar(char)
                                                   ▼
                                           ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄
                                           ▌               ▐
                                           ▌    screen     ▐
                                           ▌ ───────────── ▐
                                           ▌ real terminal ▐
                                           ▌               ▐
                                           ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀███▀▀▀▀▀▀▀
                                                  ███
                                               ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀

Class digramm

    ┌────────────┐1
    │ FTermLinux ├------┐
    └────────────┘      :
  ┌──────────────┐1     :
  │ FTermFreeBSD ├------┐
  └──────────────┘      :
  ┌──────────────┐1     :
  │ FTermOpenBSD ├------┐
  └──────────────┘      :
┌────────────────┐1     :
│ FTermDetection ├------┐
└────────────────┘      :
┌────────────────┐1     :
│ FTermcapQuirks ├------┐
└────────────────┘      :            ┌───────────┐
┌────────────────┐1     :       ┌────┤ FKeyEvent │
│ FTermXTerminal ├------┐       │    └───────────┘
└────────────────┘      :       │    ┌─────────────┐
      ┌──────────┐1     :       ├────┤ FMouseEvent │
      │ FTermcap ├------┐       │    └─────────────┘
      └──────────┘      :       │    ┌─────────────┐
      ┌──────────┐1     :       ├────┤ FWheelEvent │
      │ FTermios ├------┐       │    └─────────────┘
      └──────────┘      :       │    ┌─────────────┐
 ┌───────────────┐1     :       ├────┤ FFocusEvent │
 │ FColorPalette ├------┐       │    └─────────────┘
 └───────────────┘      :       │    ┌─────────────┐
     ┌───────────┐1     :       ├────┤ FAccelEvent │
     │ FOptiMove ├------┐       │    └─────────────┘
     └───────────┘      :       │    ┌──────────────┐
     ┌───────────┐1     :       ├────┤ FResizeEvent │
     │ FOptiAttr ├------┐       │    └──────────────┘
     └───────────┘      :       │    ┌────────────┐
     ┌───────────┐1     :       ├────┤ FShowEvent │
     │ FKeyboard ├------┐       │    └────────────┘
     └───────────┘      :       │    ┌────────────┐
 ┌───────────────┐1     :       ├────┤ FHideEvent │
 │ FMouseControl ├------┐       │    └────────────┘
 └───────────────┘      :       │    ┌─────────────┐
       ┌─────────┐1     :       ├────┤ FCloseEvent │
       │ FSystem ├------┐       │    └─────────────┘
       └─────────┘      :       │    ┌─────────────┐
       ┌─────────┐*     :       ├────┤ FTimerEvent │
       │ FString ├---┐  :       │    └─────────────┘
       └─────────┘   :  :       │    ┌────────────┐1    1┌───────┐
 ┌───────────────┐*  :  :       ├────┤ FUserEvent ├------┤ FData │
 │ FStringStream ├---┐  :       │    └────────────┘      └───────┘
 └───────────────┘   :  :       │        ┌──────┐   ┌─────────┐
        ┌────────┐*  :  :       │        │ FLog │◄──┤ FLogger │
        │ FPoint ├---┐  :       │        └──┬───┘   └─────────┘
        └────────┘   :  :       │           :1
         ┌───────┐*  :  :       │        ┌──┴───────────┐
         │ FRect ├---┐  :       │   ┌────┤ FApplication │
         └───────┘   :  :       │   │    └──────────────┘
         ┌───────┐*  :  :       │   │    ┌────────┐
         │ FSize ├---┐  :       │   ├────┤ FLabel │
         └───────┘   :  :       │   │    └────────┘
                     :1 :1      │   │    ┌───────────┐
                 ┌───┴──┴┐      │   ├────┤ FLineEdit │
                 │ FTerm │      │   │    └───────────┘
                 └───┬───┘      │   │    ┌──────────┐
                     :1         │   ├────┤ FSpinBox │
┌─────────┐   ┌──────┴──────┐   │   │    └──────────┘
│ FOutput │◄──┤ FTermOutput │   │   │    ┌─────────┐
└────┬────┘   └─────────────┘   │   ├────┤ FButton │
     :             ┌────────┐   │   │    └─────────┘
     :1            │ FEvent │◄──┘   │    ┌──────────────┐      ┌──────────────┐
 ┌───┴────┐        └────┬───┘       ├────┤ FButtonGroup │   ┌──┤ FRadioButton │
 │ FVTerm │◄──┐         :1          │    └──────────────┘   │  └──────────────┘
 └────────┘   │    ┌────┴────┐      │    ┌───────────────┐  │  ┌───────────┐
              ├────┤ FWidget │◄─────┼────┤ FToggleButton │◄─┼──┤ FCheckBox │
┌─────────┐   │    └────┬────┘      │    └───────────────┘  │  └───────────┘
│ FObject │◄──┘         :1          │    ┌──────────────┐   │  ┌─────────┐
└────┬────┘      ┌──────┴────────┐  ├────┤ FProgressbar │   └──┤ FSwitch │
     ▼           │ FWidgetColors │  │    └──────────────┘      └─────────┘
 ┌───┴────┐      └───────────────┘  │    ┌────────────┐
 │ FTimer │                         ├────┤ FScrollbar │
 └────────┘                         │    └────────────┘
                                    │    ┌───────────┐
                                    ├────┤ FTextView │
                                    │    └───────────┘
                                    │    ┌───────────┐1    1┌──────────────────┐
                                    ├────┤ FComboBox ├------┤ FDropDownListBox │
                                    │    └───────────┘      └──────────────────┘
 ┌──────────────┐1                  │    ┌──────────┐1     *┌──────────────┐1
 │ FVTermBuffer ├-------------------├────┤ FListBox ├-------┤ FListBoxItem ├--┐
 └──────────────┘                   │    └──────────┘       └──────────────┘  :
                                    │   1┌───────────┐1    *┌───────────────┐ :
                                    ├────┤ FListView ├------┤ FListViewItem │ :
                                    │    └───────────┘      └────────┬──────┘ :
                                    │    ┌─────────────┐             :1       :
                                    ├────┤ FScrollView │         ┌───┴───┐1   :
                                    │    └─────────────┘         │ FData ├----┘
                                    │                            └───────┘
                                    │    ┌────────────┐1   *┌────────────┐
                                    │ ┌──┤ FStatusBar ├-----┤ FStatusKey │
                                    │ │  └────────────┘     └────────────┘
                                    │ │
                                    │ ▼                       ┌─────────────┐
                                ┌───┴─┴───┐  ┌─────────┐   ┌──┤ FFileDialog │
                                │ FWindow │◄─┤ FDialog │◄──┤  └─────────────┘
                                └──┬──┬───┘  └─────────┘   │  ┌─────────────┐
                                   ▲  ▲                    └──┤ FMessageBox │
                                   │  │                       └─────────────┘
                                   │  │      ┌──────────┐  ┌────────────────┐
                                   │  └──────┤ FToolTip │◄─┤ FBusyIndicator │
                                   │         └──────────┘  └────────────────┘
                                   └───────────────┐          ┌──────────┐
                                                   │      ┌───┤ FMenuBar │
                                  ┌───────────┐    └──────┤   └──────────┘
                                  │ FMenuList │◄──────────┤   ┌───────┐
                                  └────┬──────┘           └───┤ FMenu │◄──┐
                                       :1                     └───────┘   │
                                       :            ┌─────────────────┐   │
                                       :            │ FDialogListMenu ├───┘
                                       :            └─────────────────┘
                                       └--------------------------------┐
                                       :*          ┌────────────────┐*  :
                                  ┌────┴─────┐  ┌──┤ FCheckMenuItem ├---┘
                                  │FMenuItem │◄─┤  └────────────────┘   :
                                  └──────────┘  │  ┌────────────────┐*  :
                                                └──┤ FRadioMenuItem ├---┘
                                                   └────────────────┘

Please send bug reports to

https://github.com/gansm/finalcut/issues

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Licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License, Version 3.0 LGPLv3

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