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Standardized console user interface library

Website: http://pdcurses.sourceforge.net/ and http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/
Platforms supported: DOS, Win32, Linux
Headers to include: curses.bi
Header versions: pdcurses 3.4, ncurses 5.9
Note: On Win32 systems pdcurses is used, on Linux it uses the standard ncurses library.
Examples: yes, in examples/console/curses/

Example

#include Once "curses.bi"



initscr()

cbreak()

noecho()

start_color()



'' The default pair 0 will have the console's default colors



'' Set pair 1 to be white/blue

init_pair(1, COLOR_WHITE, COLOR_BLUE)



'' Select pair 1, so from now on output will be white text on blue background

attrset(COLOR_PAIR(1))



printw(!"Hello, world!\n")



'' Reset to pair 0

attrset(COLOR_PAIR(0))



'' Sleep

printw(!"Waiting for keypress...\n")

getch()



endwin()