crespyl/rustbox

Rust implementation of the termbox library

Rustbox

Rustbox is a Rust implementation of termbox.

Currently, this is just a wrapper of the C library by nsf, though my plan is to convert it to be a pure Rust implementation and remove the requirement on the C library.

The original implementation of this was inspired by Aaron Pribadi, so big props to him for the original work.

NOTE This is under development, and the APIs may change as I figure out more how Rust works and as the language itself changes

Usage

The best way to use Rustbox is in your Cargo config file. You are using Cargo, right? ;)

In your Cargo.toml add the following:

[dependencies]
rustbox = "0.1.0"

You can also use the current git version by instead adding:

[dependencies.rustbox]
git = "https://github.com/gchp/rustbox.git"

Then, in your src/example.rs:

extern crate rustbox;

use std::char;
use std::io::stdio;
use std::error::Error;

use rustbox::{Color, RustBox, InitOption};

fn main() {
    let options = [
        if stdio::stderr_raw().isatty() { Some(InitOption::BufferStderr) } else { None },
    ];
    let rustbox = RustBox::init(&options).unwrap();

    rustbox.print(1, 1, rustbox::RB_BOLD, Color::White, Color::Black, "Hello, world!");
    rustbox.print(1, 3, rustbox::RB_BOLD, Color::White, Color::Black,
                  "Press 'q' to quit.");
    rustbox.present();
    loop {
        match rustbox.poll_event() {
            Ok(rustbox::Event::KeyEvent(_, _, ch)) => {
                match char::from_u32(ch) {
                    Some('q') => { break; },
                    _ => {}
                }
            },
            Err(e) => panic!("{}", e.description()),
            _ => { }
        }
    }
}