Frequently Asked Questions

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Screenshots and Demo Code

• Box: A simple box with a title.
• List: A list with selectable options and keyboard shortcuts.
• Form: A data entry form.
• TextView: A multi-color text view with highlights.
• TextArea: A multi-line text editor.
• Table: A table view with fixed rows/columns and selectable cells.
• TreeView: A tree view for hierarchical data.
• Grid: Using Grid to layout multiple widgets.
• Flex: Using Flexbox to layout multiple widgets.
• Pages: Using Pages to switch between different widgets.
• Frame: Adding header and footer text to other widgets.
• Button: A button.
• Checkbox: A checkbox.
• DropDown: A drop-down selection box.
• InputField: A one-line input field.
• Image: Image drawing using special Unicode characters.
• Modal: Modal windows.
• Unicode: Demonstrates the use of wide unicode characters (e.g. Chinese).
• ANSI: How to pipe colorized output from other programs into tview.

Advanced Tutorials

• Primitives: Writing your own primitives.
• Concurrency: How to deal with concurrency in tview.
• CustomKeys: How to use your own keys instead of tview's default ones.
• VirtualTable: How to use the Table widget as a view into your own data structure.

Demo Applications

• Timer: Two implementations of a small application that displays the current time.
• Postgres: A simple PostgreSQL database browser in ~300 lines of code.