curselib

curselib – ncurses dialog-style interface for TeleBASIC

What?

It's written in BASIC for Telehack. NOTE: As of January 2023 this software is ABANDONWARE.

Installation

@pub /get underwood/curselib.bas

Usage

Usage: curselib.bas <args>
 --version        Show version info and quit
 --help           Show this help
 --notitle        Disable the title bar
 --yn             Yes/No prompt
 --input          Prompt for user input, output to 
 --force          Force overwrite of output file if not a temporary file
 --cls            Clear screen on program exit
 --progress=<N>   Show progress bar (N must be between 0 and 100)
 --colour=<text>  Foreground colour ('color' is also supported)
 --width=<N>      Box width
 --pname=<text>   Header title
 --title=<text>   Box title
 --msg=<text>     Box message
 --btn=<text>     Info-Box button
 --out=<text>     Output filename (for use with input option)
 --func=<cmd>     Command to execute on prompt confirmation

Examples:

@run curselib.bas --yn --func='echo foo bar'

@run curselib.bas --progress=45

The options may be supplied in any order. As with other commands, -- is interchangeable with / and -. Additionally, curselib will allow options with no prefix at all:

@curselib yn msg="u grok?"

BASIC example:

@basic
Dartmouth DTSS TeleBASIC (c) 1964,1966,1969,1970,1971,1979
>for i = 0 to 100 : cmd$ = "run curselib.bas progress=" + str$(i) : th_exec cmd$ : next i

use with any loop:

@basic
Dartmouth DTSS TeleBASIC (c) 1964,1966,1969,1970,1971,1979
>total = 25 : for i = 0 to total : cmd$ = "run curselib.bas progress=" + str$(i/total*100) : th_exec cmd$ : next i