[GH-ISSUE #709] Question / Feature request #519

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opened 2026-03-04 01:05:40 +03:00 by kerem · 4 comments

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Originally created by @jagottsicher on GitHub (Mar 12, 2022).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/rivo/tview/issues/709

This repo looks very promising if one is looking for an alternate to goncurses. Also more features and from scratch built up in Go.

My Question: Does it support to "printf" or "sprintf" to specific coorditnates on the screen (terminal)? and can I determinate the position of the cursor? is utf-8 fully supported? And does this repo support a windows command line as terminal without the need to have a third party terminal like cygwin?

Originally created by @jagottsicher on GitHub (Mar 12, 2022). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/rivo/tview/issues/709 This repo looks very promising if one is looking for an alternate to goncurses. Also more features and from scratch built up in Go. My Question: Does it support to "printf" or "sprintf" to specific coorditnates on the screen (terminal)? and can I determinate the position of the cursor? is utf-8 fully supported? And does this repo support a windows command line as terminal without the need to have a third party terminal like cygwin?

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2026-03-04 01:05:41 +03:00

kerem commented

2026-03-04 01:05:41 +03:00

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@rivo commented on GitHub (Mar 12, 2022):

Based on your questions, my impression is you're rather looking for something like https://github.com/gdamore/tcell/. tcell gives you full control over what you want to print on screen.

tview is based on tcell and focuses on providing common widgets such as buttons, input fields, forms, tables, and text views. If you want to put some text at a specific screen coordinate, there are ways to do that but that's not it's main focus so it might be cumbersome.

tview supports UTF-8 fully and it supports all terminals that tcell supports, including the Windows command line.

@rivo commented on GitHub (Mar 12, 2022): Based on your questions, my impression is you're rather looking for something like https://github.com/gdamore/tcell/. `tcell` gives you full control over what you want to print on screen. `tview` is based on `tcell` and focuses on providing common widgets such as buttons, input fields, forms, tables, and text views. If you want to put some text at a specific screen coordinate, there are ways to do that but that's not it's main focus so it might be cumbersome. `tview` supports UTF-8 fully and it supports all terminals that `tcell` supports, including the Windows command line.

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2026-03-04 01:05:41 +03:00

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@jagottsicher commented on GitHub (Mar 12, 2022):

True, thanks for turning my head into direction tcell. I am not really searching for something that specific but want to create some cool examples for a course. Also the long term maybe create a tool like mc which could (as a vision) become something like an super-extended tui proving a serious tui with graphic-like features and can be served over ssh terminal.

Imagine macos or kde/gnome with mc and/or total commander all over ssh but server-sided executed. But that's a vision only cause I like Go much. :-)

My questions answered, thanks, I'll close the issue (asap as I don't know I can close it with the APP)

@jagottsicher commented on GitHub (Mar 12, 2022): True, thanks for turning my head into direction tcell. I am not really searching for something that specific but want to create some cool examples for a course. Also the long term maybe create a tool like mc which could (as a vision) become something like an super-extended tui proving a serious tui with graphic-like features and can be served over ssh terminal. Imagine macos or kde/gnome with mc and/or total commander all over ssh but server-sided executed. But that's a vision only cause I like Go much. :-) My questions answered, thanks, I'll close the issue (asap as I don't know I can close it with the APP)

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2026-03-04 01:05:42 +03:00

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@rivo commented on GitHub (Mar 12, 2022):

Just another small note, tcell allows you to print individual UTF-8 characters on screen but if you want to print entire strings that contain UTF-8 characters, it gets complicated very quickly. tview handles this for you but tcell doesn't. I spent way more time making this work than I initially expected.

@rivo commented on GitHub (Mar 12, 2022): Just another small note, `tcell` allows you to print individual UTF-8 characters on screen but if you want to print entire strings that contain UTF-8 characters, it gets complicated very quickly. `tview` handles this for you but `tcell` doesn't. I spent way more time making this work than I initially expected.

kerem commented

2026-03-04 01:05:42 +03:00

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@jagottsicher commented on GitHub (Mar 12, 2022):

Thanks! I'll keep that in mind, and when I face that problem I will thankfully remember it!

@jagottsicher commented on GitHub (Mar 12, 2022): Thanks! I'll keep that in mind, and when I face that problem I will thankfully remember it!