backend on non-Windows platforms.
* The same command-line ECMA-48 / ANSI X3.64 type terminal as above,
- but to any general InputStream/OutputStream. See the file
- jexer.demos.Demo2 for an example of running the demo over a TCP
- socket.
+ but to any general InputStream/OutputStream or Reader/Writer. See
+ the file jexer.demos.Demo2 for an example of running the demo over a
+ TCP socket. jexer.demos.Demo3 demonstrates how one might use a
+ character encoding than the default UTF-8.
* Java Swing UI. This backend can be selected by setting
jexer.Swing=true. The default window size for Swing is 132x40,
License
-------
-This project is licensed LGPL ("GNU Lesser General Public License",
-sometimes called the "Library GPL") version 3 or greater. You may
-freely use Jexer in both closed source (proprietary) and open source
-applications, however any changes you make to the Jexer code must be
-made available to your users.
-
-See the file LICENSE for the full license text, which includes both
-the GPL v3 and the LGPL supplemental terms.
+This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the file LICENSE
+for the full license text.
obviously expected behavior did not happen or when a specification was
ambiguous. This section describes such issues.
- - TTerminalWindow will hang on input from the remote if the
- TApplication is exited before the TTerminalWindow's process has
- closed on its own. This is due to a Java limitation/interaction
- between blocking reads (which is necessary to get UTF8 translation
- correct) and file streams.
-
- See jexer.tterminal.ECMA48 for more specifics of terminal
emulation limitations.
checking for a tty: script launches $SHELL in a pseudo-tty. This
works on Linux but might not on other Posix-y platforms.
+ - Closing a TTerminalWindow without exiting the process inside it
+ may result in a zombie 'script' process.
+
- Java's InputStreamReader as used by the ECMA48 backend requires a
valid UTF-8 stream. The default X10 encoding for mouse
coordinates outside (160,94) can corrupt that stream, at best
Roadmap
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-Many tasks remain before calling this version 1.0:
-
-0.0.3
-
-- TListBox
-- TColorPicker
-
-0.0.4
-
-- TStatusBar
-- TEditor
-- TWindow
- - "Smart placement" for new windows
-
-0.0.5: BUG HUNT
-
-- Swing performance. Even with double buffering it isn't great.
-
-0.1.0: BETA RELEASE
-
-- TSpinner
-- TComboBox
-- TCalendar
-
-Wishlist features (2.0):
-
-- TTerminal
- - Handle resize events (pass to child process)
-- Screen
- - Allow complex characters in putCharXY() and detect them in putStringXY().
-- Drag and drop
- - TEditor
- - TField
- - TText
- - TTerminal
- - TComboBox
+Many tasks remain before calling this version 1.0. See docs/TODO.md
+for the complete list of tasks.