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FINAL CUT

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The FINAL CUT is a C++ class library and widget toolkit with full mouse support for creating a text-based user interface. The library supports the programmer to develop an application for the text console. It allows the simultaneous handling of multiple text windows on the screen.

The structure of the Qt framework was originally the inspiration for the C++ class design of FINAL CUT. It provides common controls like dialog boxes, push buttons, check boxes, radio buttons, input lines, list boxes, status bars and so on.

Installation

> git clone git://github.com/gansm/finalcut.git
> cd finalcut
> autoreconf --install --force
> ./configure --prefix=/usr
> make
> su -c "make install"

Supported platforms

  • Linux
  • FreeBSD
  • NetBSD
  • OpenBSD
  • macOS
  • Cygwin
  • Solaris

First steps

How to use the library

Screenshots

The FFileDialog widget:

FFileDialog

The Final Cut FProgressbar widget:

FProgressbar

Scrollable text in the FTextView widget:

FTextView

The Mandelbrot set example:

Mandelbrot set

newfont

A graphical text font for X11 and the Linux console.

ui example in newfont mode

Newfont drive symbols:

drive symbols

The calculator example in newfont mode:

calculator

Virtual terminal

It uses a virtual terminal to print the character via an update method on the screen. The virtual windows are an overlying layer to realizing window movements. The update method transmits only the changes to the virtual terminal or the screen.

 print(...)
printf(...)
  │
  │           ╔═════════════════════════[ vterm ]═════════════════════════╗
  │           ║createVTerm()                                              ║
  │           ║                                 ┌ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ┐ ║
  │           ║                                                           ║
  │           ║                                 │ restoreVTerm(x,y,w,h) │ ║
  │           ║                                                           ║
  │           ║                                 └ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ┘ ║
  │           ║                                                           ║
  │   ┌───────╨─────[ vwin ]─────────────┐                                ║
  │   │createArea(area)                  │                                ║
  │   │                                  │                                ║
  │   │                                  │                                ║
  └───┼─────────────►     ──────► updateVTerm(area) ────►                 ║
      │                                  │                                ║
      │                           putArea(x,y,area)                       ║
      │                         ────────────────────►                     ║
      │                           getArea(x,y,area)                       ║
      │                        ◄────────────────────                      ║
      │                                  │                                ║
      │                                  │                                ║
      │                  resizeArea(area)│                                ║
      └───────╥──────────────────────────┘                                ║
              ║                                                           ║
              ║                                                           ║
              ║                                                           ║
              ║   │                                          resizeVTerm()║
              ╚═══▼═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
                  │
                  │    putVTerm()
                  └──────────────────► updateTerminalLine(y)
                    updateTerminal()             │
                                                 ▼
                                         ┌───────────────┐
                                         │ output_buffer │
                                         └───────────────┘
                                                 │
                                                 │ flush_out()
                                                 │     +
                                                 │ Fputchar(char)
                                                 │
                                                 ▼
                                         ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄
                                         ▌               ▐
                                         ▌    screen     ▐
                                         ▌ ───────────── ▐
                                         ▌ real terminal ▐
                                         ▌               ▐
                                         ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀███▀▀▀▀▀▀▀
                                                ███
                                             ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀

Class digramm

              1┌──────────────┐
   ┌-----------┤ FTermFreeBSD │
   :           └──────────────┘
   :          1┌──────────────┐         ┌───────────┐
   ┌-----------┤ FTermOpenBSD │    ┌────┤ FKeyEvent │
   :           └──────────────┘    │    └───────────┘
   :          1┌────────────────┐  │    ┌─────────────┐
   ┌-----------┤ FTermDetection │  ├────┤ FMouseEvent │
   :           └────────────────┘  │    └─────────────┘
   :          1┌────────────────┐  │    ┌─────────────┐
   ┌-----------┤ FTermcapQuirks │  ├────┤ FWheelEvent │
   :           └────────────────┘  │    └─────────────┘
   :          1┌────────────────┐  │    ┌─────────────┐
   ┌-----------┤ FTermXTerminal │  ├────┤ FFocusEvent │
   :           └────────────────┘  │    └─────────────┘
   :          1┌──────────┐        │    ┌─────────────┐
   ┌-----------┤ FTermcap │        ├────┤ FAccelEvent │
   :           └──────────┘        │    └─────────────┘
   :          1┌──────────┐        │    ┌──────────────┐
   ┌-----------┤ FTermios │        ├────┤ FResizeEvent │
   :           └──────────┘        │    └──────────────┘
   :          1┌───────────────┐   │    ┌────────────┐
   ┌-----------┤ FColorPalette │   ├────┤ FShowEvent │
   :           └───────────────┘   │    └────────────┘
   :          1┌───────────┐       │    ┌────────────┐
   ┌-----------┤ FOptiMove │       ├────┤ FHideEvent │
   :           └───────────┘       │    └────────────┘
   :          1┌───────────┐       │    ┌─────────────┐
   ┌-----------┤ FOptiAttr │       ├────┤ FCloseEvent │
   :           └───────────┘       │    └─────────────┘
   :          1┌───────────┐       │    ┌─────────────┐
   ┌-----------┤ FKeyboard │       ├────┤ FTimerEvent │
   :           └───────────┘       │    └─────────────┘
   :          1┌───────────────┐   │
   ┌-----------┤ FMouseControl │   │       ┌──────────────┐
   :           └───────────────┘   │  ┌────┤ FApplication │
   :          *┌─────────┐         │  │    └──────────────┘
   :  ┌--------┤ FString │         │  │    ┌─────────┐
   :  :        └─────────┘         │  ├────┤ FButton │
   :  :       *┌────────┐          │  │    └─────────┘
   :  ┌--------┤ FPoint │          │  │    ┌────────┐
   :  :        └────────┘          │  ├────┤ FLabel │
   :  :       *┌───────┐           │  │    └────────┘
   :  ┌--------┤ FRect │           │  │    ┌───────────┐
   :  :        └───────┘           │  ├────┤ FLineEdit │
   :1 :1                           │  │    └───────────┘
 ┌─┴──┴──┐                         │  │    ┌──────────────┐      ┌──────────────┐
 │ FTerm │                         │  ├────┤ FButtonGroup │   ┌──┤ FRadioButton │
 └───┬───┘         ┌────────┐      │  │    └──────────────┘   │  └──────────────┘
     :1            │ FEvent │◄─────┘  │    ┌───────────────┐  │  ┌───────────┐
 ┌───┴────┐        └────┬───┘         ├────┤ FToggleButton │◄─┼──┤ FCheckBox │
 │ FVTerm │◄──┐         :1            │    └───────────────┘  │  └───────────┘
 └────────┘   │    ┌────┴────┐        │    ┌──────────────┐   │  ┌─────────┐
              ├────┤ FWidget │◄───────┼────┤ FProgressbar │   └──┤ FSwitch │
┌─────────┐   │    └─────────┘        │    └──────────────┘      └─────────┘
│ FObject │◄──┘                       │    ┌────────────┐
└─────────┘                           ├────┤ FScrollbar │
                                      │    └────────────┘
                                      │    ┌───────────┐
                                      ├────┤ FTextView │
                                      │    └───────────┘
                                      │    ┌──────────┐1     *┌──────────────┐
                                      ├────┤ FListBox ├-------┤ FListBoxItem │
                                      │    └──────────┘       └──────────────┘
 ┌─────────────┐1                     │   1┌───────────┐1    *┌───────────────┐
 │ FTermBuffer ├----------------------├────┤ FListView ├------┤ FListViewItem │
 └─────────────┘                      │    └───────────┘      └───────────────┘
                                      │    ┌─────────────┐
                                      ├────┤ FScrollView │
                                      │    └─────────────┘
                                      │    ┌────────────┐1   *┌────────────┐
                                      │ ┌──┤ FStatusBar ├-----┤ FStatusKey │
                                      │ │  └────────────┘     └────────────┘
                                      │ │
                                      │ ▼                       ┌─────────────┐
                                  ┌───┴─┴───┐  ┌─────────┐   ┌──┤ FFileDialog │
                                  │ FWindow │◄─┤ FDialog │◄──┤  └─────────────┘
                                  └──┬──┬───┘  └─────────┘   │  ┌─────────────┐
                                     ▲  ▲                    └──┤ FMessageBox │
                                     │  │                       └─────────────┘
                                     │  │      ┌──────────┐
                                     │  └──────┤ FToolTip │
                                     │         └──────────┘
                                     └───────────────┐          ┌──────────┐
                                                     │      ┌───┤ FMenuBar │
                                    ┌───────────┐    └──────┤   └──────────┘
                                    │ FMenuList │◄──────────┤   ┌───────┐
                                    └────┬──────┘           └───┤ FMenu │◄──┐
                                         :1                     └───────┘   │
                                         :            ┌─────────────────┐   │
                                         :            │ FDialogListMenu ├───┘
                                         :            └─────────────────┘
                                         └--------------------------------┐
                                         :*          ┌────────────────┐*  :
                                    ┌────┴─────┐  ┌──┤ FCheckMenuItem ├---┘
                                    │FMenuItem │◄─┤  └────────────────┘   :
                                    └──────────┘  │  ┌────────────────┐*  :
                                                  └──┤ FRadioMenuItem ├---┘
                                                     └────────────────┘

License

GNU Lesser General Public License Version 3

Frequently Asked Questions

If you have any problems, please read the FAQ before you give up.

Please send bug reports to

https://github.com/gansm/finalcut/issues