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A Java TUI (text-based user interface) widget toolkit which aims at using no native code at all (even on Windows platforms).

Features

• Support for common terminal types (ansi, linux, xterm*, screen*, vt*, dtterm etc.) and terminal emulators (XTerm, RXVT, PuTTY, DtTerm etc).
• Support for 16 ANSI colours. Bright foreground is implemented using either BOLD attribute or AIXTerm control sequences (terminal-dependent). Bright background is implemented using either BLINK attribute (RXVT family) or AIXTerm control sequences (terminal-dependent).
• Pseudographics via either Unicode line drawing characters (if locale's codepage supports it -- i. e. for UTF-8, IBM866, KOI8-R) or VT100 line drawing characters.
• Continuous window size querying (for terminals which have this capability). Support for SIGWINCH (UNIX) is planned.
• Correct handling of most control and escape sequences, incl. function keys (ANSI/Sun/SCO etc.)
• Custom window titles supported.
• Own "database" of terminal capabilities

Running

mvn exec:java

Similar libraries

• lanterna (also pure Java)
• Turbo Vision
• Turbo Vision rewritten in C#
• Textmode WINdow environment
• ncurses

Links

• XTerm Control Sequences
• Comparison of Terminal Emulators
  • Title Support
  • Colour Support

Screenshots

• cmd.exe on Windows 7:
• PuTTY on Windows 7:
• xterm on Linux:
• mrxvt on Linux:
• urxvt on Linux:
• rxvt-unicode on Linux:
• gnome-terminal on Linux:
• xfce4-terminal on Linux:
• konsole on Linux: