mitizhi / ex_ncurses

Ncurses Nif for Elixir (or Erlang)

ex_ncurses

Ncurses Nif for Elixir (or Erlang)

What It Does

ExNcurses is a Nif that you can add to your project and monitor keyboard inputs one character at a time.

Testing ncurses inside an 'iex -S mix' console will fail to work after a few keystrokes.

Usage

For usage, you can look at the code in the examples directory or check out the QuickieSynth sample project (@elixirsips) where we show a version using ExNcurses.

github.com/jfreeze/ex_ncurses

Installation

The package is available on github can be installed as:

1. Add ex_ncurses to your list of dependencies in your mix.exs:

   def deps do [ {:ex_ncurses, git: "https://github.com/jfreeze/ex_ncurses.git"} ] end

Compiling

You will need to install the ncurses library and C header files first. Do this however is appropriate for your system.

Then the project can be compiled with

mix deps.get
mix compile

Run the examples

To run any of the examples, start them by invoking the run_example.sh script:

./run_example.sh demo