1. nCurses Tutorial Filiz Şenyüzlüler Güzelbey

2. What is nCurses? Ncurses is a library, which is used for creating and using windows, screen painting and using function keys for text-based terminals.

3. What is nCurses? What you can do with Ncurses: – Use any part of the screen according to your request. – Create and manage windows. – Use 8 different colors. – Use the function keys on the keyboard.

4. Getting Ready Add #include Open Terminal (Compile & Run from Terminal)

5. Basic Functions initscr(); – initializes the terminal in curses mode. – it clears the screen and presents a blank screen. printw("Hello World !!!"); refresh() checks the window and updates only the portion which has been changed. endwin() frees the memory taken by curses sub-system and its data structures and puts the terminal in normal mode.

6. Hello World !!

7. Hello World !! (2)

8. Using Terminal cd Desktop (to reach the file-path) cd foldername g++ filename.cpp –lncurses (to compile)./a.out (to run)

9. Basic Functions getch() – Waits for user input clear() – Clears the screen

10. clearing the screen

11. attributes attributes are used to print characters with some special effects. attron(), attroff() can be used to switch attributes on/off

12. A_BOLD attron(A_BOLD); printw("%c", ch); attroff(A_BOLD);

13. COLOR_PAIR(n) start_color(); /* Start color*/ init_pair(1, COLOR_RED, COLOR_GREEN) ; attron(COLOR_PAIR(1)); printw("%c", ch); attroff(COLOR_PAIR(1));