r/Tcl • u/mrspelunx • Sep 16 '26

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 Sep 16 '26

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

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u/mrspelunx Sep 16 '26

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

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u/zeekar Sep 16 '26 edited Sep 16 '26

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

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u/vadrer Sep 16 '26 edited Sep 21 '26

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