Rich interactive widgets for terminal-based UIs written in Go

Rich Interactive Widgets for Terminal UIs

This Go package provides commonly needed components for terminal based user interfaces.

Among these components are:

• Input forms (include input/password fields, drop-down selections, checkboxes, and buttons)
• Navigable multi-color text views
• Sophisticated navigable table views
• Flexible tree views
• Selectable lists
• Grid, Flexbox and page layouts
• Modal message windows
• An application wrapper

They come with lots of customization options and can be easily extended to fit your needs.

Installation

go get github.com/rivo/tview

Hello World

This basic example creates a box titled “Hello, World!” and displays it in your terminal:

package main

import (
	"github.com/rivo/tview"
)

func main() {
	box := tview.NewBox().SetBorder(true).SetTitle("Hello, world!")
	if err := tview.NewApplication().SetRoot(box, true).Run(); err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
}

Check out the GitHub Wiki for more examples along with screenshots. Or try the examples in the “demos” subdirectory.

For a presentation highlighting this package, compile and run the program found in the “demos/presentation” subdirectory.

Documentation

Refer to https://godoc.org/github.com/rivo/tview for the package’s documentation.

Dependencies

This package is based on github.com/gdamore/tcell (and its dependencies) as well as on github.com/rivo/uniseg.

Your Feedback

Add your issue here on GitHub. Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions.

Version History

(There are no corresponding tags in the project. I only keep such a history in this README.)

• v0.20 (2019-07-08)
  • Added autocomplete functionality to InputField.
• v0.19 (2018-10-28)
  • Added QueueUpdate() and QueueEvent() to Application to help with modifications to primitives from goroutines.
• v0.18 (2018-10-18)
  • InputField elements can now be navigated freely.
• v0.17 (2018-06-20)
  • Added TreeView.
• v0.15 (2018-05-02)
  • Flex and Grid don’t clear their background per default, thus allowing for custom modals. See the Wiki for an example.
• v0.14 (2018-04-13)
  • Added an Escape() function which keep strings like color or region tags from being recognized as such.
  • Added ANSIWriter() and TranslateANSI() which convert ANSI escape sequences to tview color tags.
• v0.13 (2018-04-01)
  • Added background colors and text attributes to color tags.
• v0.12 (2018-03-13)
  • Added “suspended mode” to Application.
• v0.11 (2018-03-02)
  • Added a RemoveItem() function to Grid and Flex.
• v0.10 (2018-02-22)
  • Direct access to the screen object through callback in Box (i.e. for all primitives).
• v0.9 (2018-02-20)
  • Introduced Grid layout.
  • Direct access to the screen object through callbacks in Application.
• v0.8 (2018-01-17)
  • Color tags can now be used almost everywhere.
• v0.7 (2018-01-16)
  • Forms can now also have a horizontal layout.
• v0.6 (2018-01-14)
  • All primitives can now intercept all key events when they have focus.
  • Key events can also be intercepted globally (changed to a more general, consistent handling)
• v0.5 (2018-01-13)
  • TextView now has word wrapping and text alignment
• v0.4 (2018-01-12)
  • TextView now accepts color tags with any W3C color (including RGB hex values).
  • Support for wide unicode characters.
• v0.3 (2018-01-11)
  • Added masking to InputField and password entry to Form.
• v0.2 (2018-01-10)
  • Added Styles variable with default colors for primitives.
  • Completed some missing InputField functions.
• v0.1 (2018-01-06)
  • First Release.