CursesSharp

INTRODUCTION

CursesSharp is a C# wrapper for curses library. The latest version of this 'fork'' can be found at Github. The original version can be found at the SourceForge.net project page.

DOCUMENTATION

CursesSharp consists of a .NET assembly (CursesSharp.dll) and a native wrapper shared library (DLL) which is linked with PDCurses (in Windows) or ncurses (in Unix-like systems). This wrapper library is called CursesWrapper.dll in Windows or libCursesWrapper.so in Unix or libCursesWrapper.dylib in OS-X. CursesSharp provides a bit cleaner API to curses than the original one, although function names remain unchanged for the most part.

CursesSharp namespace contains several important classes:

• Defs - contains constants from curses: attribute, color and key definitions as well as some macros (COLORPAIR, PAIRNUMBER)
• Curses - the main interface to curses; contains methods global to the library, a StdScr property that returns the stdscr window, and as a convenience, some window-specific functions that operate on stdscr
• Window - represents a curses window that can be written to, or read from; contains wrappers for most of curses functions with names starting with w* or mvw*
• CursesException - an exception class, thrown when a curses function reports an error

Documentation is (always) under construction. Help would be much appreciated.

Installing CursesSharp on OS-X

These are the instructions for building CursesSharp on OS-X.

The build process has been tested on:

• OS-X 10.10.5
• Apple LLVM version 7.0.0 (clang-700.1.76)
• Mono JIT compiler version 4.2.1 64-bit build.

0. Prerequisites

The native library is now built as a 'fat' library so either a Mono 32-bit or 64-bit build can be used.

$> file libCursesWrapper.so

libCursesWrapper.so: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures
libCursesWrapper.so (for architecture i386):    Mach-O dynamically linked shared library i386
libCursesWrapper.so (for architecture x86_64):  Mach-O 64-bit dynamically linked shared library x86_64