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I would like to write a Java terminal application that does screen manipulation. Are there any good libraries out there that allow you to manipulate the screen like curses in the *nix/C world?
Minimal features I'm looking for are windowing and user input support.
In feature-speak, I'd like to have a region of the terminal where some data is regularly updated while (at the same time) the user can enter commands/text in some other part of the screen.
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Ncurses is a programming library providing an API, allowing the programmer to write text-based user interfaces, Text User Interface (TUI), in a terminal-independent manner. It also optimizes screen changes, in order to reduce the latency experienced when using remote Unix shell.
To use ncurses library functions, you have to include ncurses. h in your programs. To link the program with ncurses the flag -lncurses should be added.
I found the lanterna library recently. Haven't had the opportunity to use it yet but it looks like a more up-to-date alternative to the others.
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There is Charva, which links to native code but has an api based on Swing. The screenshots show lots of text windows, so that looks useful.
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