ezcurses

library to help with curses programming (Python 3.3+ compatible)

Installation

From the project root directory::

$ python setup.py install

Usage

The easiest method is to just decorate your function, and use the injected scr argument::

from time import sleep
from ezcurses import curse

@curse
def main(scr, message_string):
    w, h = scr.max_size()
    scr.write(message_string, pos=(w // 2, h // 2))
    scr.refresh()
    sleep(1)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main('Hello world!')

You can also use the Cursed context manager. Here's an example with windows with backgrounds and borders and colors::

from ezcurses import Cursed

with Cursed() as scr:
    w, h = scr.max_size()
    win1 = scr.new_win(orig=(0, 0), size=(20, 20))
    win2 = scr.new_win(orig=(20, 0), size=(20, 20))
    win1.border()
    win2.border()
    win1.background('+', color='red')
    win2.background('.', color=('green', 'blue'))
    win1.refresh()
    win2.refresh()
    s = win1.getstr((1, 1), echo=True)
    win2.write(s, (1, 1), color=('red', 'black'))
    win2.refresh()
    win1.write('Press q to quit', (1, 1), color=('black', 'red'))
    while win1.getkey() != 'q':
        pass

Release Notes

:0.2.12:

• Add windows support with unicurses :0.2.11:
• Readme example was bad :0.2.10:
• Add multi_menu feature for selections spanning a screen :0.2.9:
• Rename _msgs to Menu.items :0.2.8:
• Much more intricate menu logic and new multi_menu.py example :0.2.7:
• Fix menu origin in windows bug :0.2.6:
• Make layout creatable with Screen.new_layout(border=True) :0.2.5:
• Add Layout feature for bootstrap like rows and columns :0.2.4:
• Add Menu functionality and an example in examples/menu_example.py :0.2.3:
• make it much more tolerable for floats, if user does math stuff :0.2.2:
• add curse decorator
• rename main context manager to Cursed :0.2.1:
• fixed a few bugs in window without size :0.2.0:
• lots of clean up and testing, fix README :0.1.2:
• Make positional optional and a keyword pos for the getstr function
• Add documentation to API :0.1.1:
• Make position optional for write and default (0, 0) like other funcs :0.1.0:
• New features for curses windows
• get input, string and characters
• add strings with colors to the window
• add borders
• draw lines
• change background
• very functional as is :0.0.1:
• Project created