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                      Keep (n)curses away!

A much-needed ncurses alternative, written in C for maximum portability.

Bulwark is a small but powerful library for making terminal apps. It's meant to be a simple ncurses alternative that works exactly how you'd expect. By simplifying and giving functions self-explanatory names, Bulwark aims to be easily discoverable in any mondern code editor.

The current goals of Bulwark are:

• Target only POSIX environments.
• Support 16, 256, and full RGB colors.
• Support mouse events.
• Support ascii and unicode characters
• Have a decent rendering algorithm efficient enough for games.
• Throw away legacy features no one uses.
• Be easy to port.

• Bulwark does away with row/column coordinates in favor of width/height and x/y.
• You don't have to define foreground/background pairs, like in ncurses. Can set them individually or together via single function calls.
• The 16 builtin colors are mapped to the values 0-15 (diagram coming soon).

Please note the library is still in early stages and there are some major bugs I'm still working through (and general cleanup/refactoring that's on my to-do list). API is not currently in a stable state like you would want for writing real apps but things will stabilize over time and as the rest of the features get hammered out.

• Base 16 colors
• 256 colors
• Non-blocking input via event queue
• Diff rendering
• Mouse events
• Full RGB colors
• Unicode characters

Bulwark can be installed just like any other cmake project (will add more specific instructions once the project is further along).

#include <Bulwark.h>
#include <stdbool.h>

int main() {
  bool running = true;
  Bulwark_Initialize();

  while (running) {
    // Handle input from Bulwark, decide if the app should keep running.

    Bulwark_ClearScreen();

    // Make draw calls

    Bulwark_UpdateScreen();
  }

  // Clean up

  Bulwark_Quit();

  return 0;
}