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FTXUI

Functional Terminal (X) User interface

A simple cross-platform C++ library for terminal based user interfaces!

Feature

• Functional style. Inspired by 1 and React
• Simple and elegant syntax (in my opinion)
• Keyboard & mouse navigation.
• Support for UTF8 and fullwidth chars (→ 测试)
• Support for animations. Demo 1, Demo 2
• Support for drawing. Demo
• No dependencies.
• C++20 Module support
• Cross platform: Linux/MacOS (main target), WebAssembly, Windows (Thanks to contributors!).
• Learn by examples, and tutorials
• Multiple packages:
  • CMake FetchContent (preferred)
  • Bazel
  • vcpkg
  • Conan Debian package
  • Ubuntu package
  • Arch Linux
  • OpenSUSE
  • XMake repository package
  • Nix
• Good practices: documentation, tests, fuzzers, performance tests, automated CI, automated packaging, etc...

Documentation

• Starter CMake
• Starter Bazel
• Documentation
• Examples (WebAssembly)
• Build using CMake
• Build using Bazel

Example

    vbox({
      hbox({
        text("one") | border,
        text("two") | border | flex,
        text("three") | border | flex,
      }),

      gauge(0.25) | color(Color::Red),
      gauge(0.50) | color(Color::White),
      gauge(0.75) | color(Color::Blue),
    });

Short gallery

DOM

This module defines a hierarchical set of Element. An Element manages layout and can be responsive to the terminal dimensions.

They are declared in <ftxui/dom/elements.hpp>

Layout

Element can be arranged together:

• horizontally with hbox
• vertically with vbox
• inside a grid with gridbox
• wrap along one direction using the flexbox.

Element can become flexible using the flex decorator.

Example using hbox, vbox and filler.

Example using gridbox:

Example using flexbox:

See also this demo.

Style

An element can be decorated using the functions:

• bold
• italic
• dim
• inverted
• underlined
• underlinedDouble
• blink
• strikethrough
• color
• bgcolor
• hyperlink

Example

FTXUI supports the pipe operator. It means: decorator1(decorator2(element)) and element | decorator1 | decorator2 can be used.

Colors

FTXUI support every color palette:

Color gallery:

Border and separator

Use decorator border and element separator() to subdivide your UI:

auto document = vbox({
    text("top"),
    separator(),
    text("bottom"),
}) | border;

Demo:

Text and paragraph

A simple piece of text is represented using text("content").

To support text wrapping following spaces the following functions are provided:

Element paragraph(std::string text);
Element paragraphAlignLeft(std::string text);
Element paragraphAlignRight(std::string text);
Element paragraphAlignCenter(std::string text);
Element paragraphAlignJustify(std::string text);

Paragraph example

Table

A class to easily style a table of data.

Example:

Canvas

Drawing can be made on a Canvas, using braille, block, or simple characters:

Simple example:

Complex examples:

Component

ftxui/component produces dynamic UI, reactive to the user's input. It defines a set of ftxui::Component. A component reacts to Events (keyboard, mouse, resize, ...) and Renders as an Element (see previous section).

Prebuilt components are declared in <ftxui/component/component.hpp>

Gallery

Gallery of multiple components. (demo)

Radiobox

Example:

Checkbox

Example:

Input

Example:

Toggle

Example:

Slider

Example:

Menu

Example:

ResizableSplit

Example:

Dropdown

Example:

Tab

Vertical:

Horizontal:

Libraries for FTXUI

• Want to share a useful Component for FTXUI? Feel free to add yours here
• ftxui-grid-container
• ftxui-ip-input
• ftxui-image-view: For Image Display.

Project using FTXUI

Feel free to add your projects here:

• json-tui
• git-tui
• ostree-tui
• rgb-tui
• chrome-log-beautifier
• x86-64 CPU Architecture Simulation
• ltuiny
• i3-termdialogs
• simpPRU
• Pigeon ROS TUI
• hastur
• CryptoCalculator
• todoman
• TimeAccumulator
• vantage
• tabdeeli
• tiles
• cachyos-cli-installer
• beagle-config
• turing_cmd
• StartUp
• eCAL monitor
• Path Finder
• rw-tui
• resource-monitor
• ftxuiFileReader
• ftxui_CPUMeter
• Captain's log
• FTowerX
• Caravan
• Step-Writer
• XJ music
• UDP chat
• 2048-cpp
• Memory game
• Terminal Animation
• pciex
• Fallout terminal hacking
• Lazylist
• TUISIC
• inLimbo
• BestEdrOfTheMarket
• terminal-rain
• keywords (Play web version ❤️)
• FTB - tertminal file browser
• openJuice
• SHOOT!

cpp-best-practices/game_jam

Several games using the FTXUI have been made during the Game Jam:

• TermBreaker [Play web version]
• Minesweeper Marathon [Play web version]
• Grand Rounds
• LightsRound
• DanteO
• Sumo
• Drag Me aROUND
• DisarmSelfDestruct
• TheWorld
• smoothlife
• Consu

Build using CMake

It is highly recommended to use CMake FetchContent to depend on FTXUI so you may specify which commit you would like to depend on.

include(FetchContent)
FetchContent_Declare(ftxui
  GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/ArthurSonzogni/ftxui
  GIT_TAG v6.1.9
)
FetchContent_MakeAvailable(ftxui)

target_link_libraries(your_target PRIVATE
    # Chose a submodule
    ftxui::component
    ftxui::dom
    ftxui::screen
)

Build using Bazel

MODULE.bazel

bazel_dep(
    name = "ftxui",
    version = "v6.1.9",
)

BUILD.bazel

cc_binary(
    name = "your_target",
    srcs = ["your_source.cc"],
    deps = [
        "@ftxui//:ftxui_component",
        "@ftxui//:ftxui_dom",
        "@ftxui//:ftxui_screen",
    ],
)

Build with something else:

If you don't, FTXUI may be used from the following packages:

• CMake FetchContent (preferred),
• Bazel,
• vcpkg,
• Conan
• Debian package,
• Ubuntu package,
• Arch Linux,
• OpenSUSE, Nix,

If you choose to build and link FTXUI yourself, ftxui-component must be first in the linking order relative to the other FTXUI libraries, i.e.

g++ . . . -lftxui-component -lftxui-dom -lftxui-screen . . .

To build FTXUI with modules, check documentation

Contributors