On 2012-03-13 02:36, Christian Manning wrote:

> It would be great if an std.terminal contained general stuff for
> manipulating/querying a terminal portably, as well as colour output, eg.
> get terminal size, move cursor around, erase line... just things to help
> with building UIs, progress bars, etc. that are easy to use.

I actually have a library for this written in C++, somewhere.

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/Jacob Carlborg

On Tuesday, 13 March 2012 at 07:45:19 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2012-03-13 02:36, Christian Manning wrote:
>
>> It would be great if an std.terminal contained general stuff for
>> manipulating/querying a terminal portably, as well as colour output, eg.
>> get terminal size, move cursor around, erase line... just things to help
>> with building UIs, progress bars, etc. that are easy to use.
>
> I actually have a library for this written in C++, somewhere.

Any chance of a release? :)

I'd like to have a stab at porting it to D, when I have time, if you aren't already planning to.

On 2012-03-13 13:31, Christian Manning wrote:
> On Tuesday, 13 March 2012 at 07:45:19 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> On 2012-03-13 02:36, Christian Manning wrote:
>>
>>> It would be great if an std.terminal contained general stuff for
>>> manipulating/querying a terminal portably, as well as colour output, eg.
>>> get terminal size, move cursor around, erase line... just things to help
>>> with building UIs, progress bars, etc. that are easy to use.
>>
>> I actually have a library for this written in C++, somewhere.
>
> Any chance of a release? :)
>
> I'd like to have a stab at porting it to D, when I have time, if you
> aren't already planning to.

I have been thinking about porting it to D from time to time. I can see what I can do :)

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

On Tuesday, 13 March 2012 at 16:05:31 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2012-03-13 13:31, Christian Manning wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 13 March 2012 at 07:45:19 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>>> On 2012-03-13 02:36, Christian Manning wrote:
>>>
>>>> It would be great if an std.terminal contained general stuff for
>>>> manipulating/querying a terminal portably, as well as colour output, eg.
>>>> get terminal size, move cursor around, erase line... just things to help
>>>> with building UIs, progress bars, etc. that are easy to use.
>>>
>>> I actually have a library for this written in C++, somewhere.
>>
>> Any chance of a release? :)
>>
>> I'd like to have a stab at porting it to D, when I have time, if you
>> aren't already planning to.
>
> I have been thinking about porting it to D from time to time. I can see what I can do :)

Looking forward to it!