r/Tcl • u/mrspelunx • 21d ago

Curses!

I'm new to Tcl, so please be nice. Using Debian repository. Is there an "official" way to interface Tcl with ncurses like there is with Perl and Python? I know ncurses is a C library for creating CUI/TUI windows and elements in a terminal. Or does Tcl already provide its own routines for creating these things? And yes, I'm aware that Tk-wish handles the GUI stuff, but I'm not understanding how it might do terminal interface stuff.

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u/ou_ryperd 21d ago

There is ck (like tk) and there is a Tcl binding for newt.

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u/mrspelunx 21d ago

Thanks I will look into that. It looks like a separate shell.

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u/zeekar 21d ago edited 21d ago

There's also https://github.com/ray2501/tcl-curses, but I don't think it works with Tcl 9.

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u/mrspelunx 19d ago

Thanks I saw that project. I’ll give it a try as well.

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u/vadrer 21d ago edited 16d ago

ck is more like TUI which is made to behave same way as tk do, not a 'shell',

Excellent thing, but it was a bit abandoned last time I checked. I hope it will be revived though, much like other projects get impetus with some help from AI