curses

Bindings for the native curses library, a full featured console IO library. Compiles on Windows with Visual Studio 10 or Linux/UNIX with GCC toolchain. The curses library for the target system will automatically be downloaded and compiled into a static library on installation.

On Windows the PDCurses library will be used and on Linux/UNIX it links against the ncurses library.

Installation

To install curses just type:

npm install curses

or install from GIT

git clone git://github.com/fresc81/node-curses curses
cd curses
npm install .

Rebuild

If you have changed the C++ sources:

node-gyp rebuild

Usage

	/* load curses */
var curses = require('./curses')

	/* initialize top level window */
,	stdwin = curses.initscr()
;

// ...

// reset terminal
curses.endwin();

See the ncurses manual for descriptions of the functions.

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/

http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/man/ncurses.3x.html