Curses library

Curses
Library project
Developer	Ken Arnold
Released
Updated
Status	Stable
Licensing
P. Language	C
Platforms	Unix
Dependencies
[There is no Official site of Curses]

Curses is a text-mode screen handling library originally written by Ken Arnold for Rogue. Since most roguelike games are text-mode and, well, roguelike, curses is often used in their development.

Links

• Curses entry on Wikipedia
• Curses manual

Tutorials

• Writing programs with NCURSES
• NCURSES Programming HOWTO
• Introduction to the Unix Curses Library

Curses Implementations

• ncurses : home page
  • D
  • Perl
  • Python (included)
  • Ruby
• PDCurses : home page
• JCurses (Java)