Programming with Curses: UNIX C Library for Screen Manipulation

curses is a UNIX library of functions for controlling a terminal's display screen from a C program. It can be used to provide a screen driver for a program (such as a visual editor) or to improve a program's user interface.

This handbook will help you make use of the curses library in your C programs. We have presented ample material on curses and its implementation in UNIX so that you understand the whole, as well as its parts.

Note: This handbook covers Ken Arnold's original Berkeley implementation of curses, not the System V version.

Topics covered include:

• Windows, screens, and images.
• Multiple windows.
• The WINDOW structure.

Curses is a UNIX library of functions for controlling a terminal's display screen from a C program. It can be used to provide a screen driver for a program (such as a visual editor) or improve a program's user interface. This handbook will help you make use of the curses library in your C programs. The book covers Windows, screens and images; multiple windows; and the Window structure.

Curses is a UNIX library of functions for controlling a terminal's display screen from a C program. It can be used to provide a screen driver for a program (such as a visual editor) or improve a program's user interface. This handbook will help you make use of the curses library in your C programs. The book covers Windows, screens and images; multiple windows; and the Window structure.

Strang is an Assistant Professor of Diagnostic Radiology at the University of Rochester, NY. His research interests are in CAT scan and MRI of the body, as well as in computerization of radiologic images.