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A console UI library featuring fluid interface resizing, UTF-8 support, multiple text layouts, simple attribute markup, powerful scrolling list boxes and flexible interface design.

Project description

Urwid is a console user interface library. It includes many features useful for text console application developers including:

  • Fluid interface resizing (xterm window resizing / fbset on Linux console)

  • Web application display mode using Apache and CGI

  • Support for UTF-8, simple 8-bit and CJK encodings

  • Multiple text alignment and wrapping modes built-in

  • Ability to create user-defined text layout classes

  • Simple markup for setting text attributes

  • Powerful list box that handles scrolling between different widget types

  • List box contents may be managed with a user-defined class

  • Flexible edit box for editing many different types of text

  • Buttons, check boxes and radio boxes

  • Customizable layout for all widgets

  • Easy interface for creating HTML screen shots

Home Page:

http://excess.org/urwid/

Example Program Screenshots:

http://excess.org/urwid/examples.html

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