Icod.DCurses 0.1.0-Alpha-13

Icod.DCurses

Icod.DCurses is a managed, cross-platform curses-like terminal UI library for .NET.

The library sits above Icod.TermInfo and Icod.Terminal. Icod.TermInfo remains the immutable terminal-capability authority; Icod.Terminal owns the live terminal session, host mode, dimensions, lifecycle, input decoding, and reversible presentation leases. Icod.DCurses owns curses-shaped events, virtual screens and windows, terminal cells and styles, rendition policy, and refresh/damage synchronization.

Status

The project is under active development toward version 0.1.0.

0.1.0-Alpha-13 follows the Icod.Terminal T10 integration checkpoint. The active DCurses build consumes Icod.Terminal 0.1.0-alpha.11 for live-terminal ownership and delegates relative event-timeout and Escape-sequence timing to the Icod.Timing 1.0.0 substrate owned by Terminal. DCurses does not add a direct Icod.Timing dependency because the active curses layer owns no independent timer or scheduler. The former DCurses backend, native mode, lifecycle-source, and input-decoder files remain excluded from compilation pending physical cleanup.

The first release continues to be driven by the requirements of top, slabtop, and watch.

See Icod.DCurses-Development-Roadmap.md for the broader development contract through 1.0.0, and docs/Icod-Terminal-T10-Integration.md for the substrate reset implemented by Alpha-12.

Architecture

top / slabtop / watch / other TUIs
                 |
            Icod.DCurses
     windows / cells / refresh
       rendition / curses events
                 |
            Icod.Terminal
 session / input / lifecycle / dimensions
       presentation-state leases
                 |
            Icod.TermInfo
      terminal capability model
                 |
            terminal / tty

Icod.DCurses does not hard-code one terminal family. Terminal-specific output continues to be selected through Icod.TermInfo, while live session ownership and reversible terminal state are centralized in Icod.Terminal.

Target

The initial implementation targets:

• .NET 10
• C# 13
• Windows
• Linux
• macOS

The active runtime dependencies are:

• Icod.TermInfo 1.0.0
• Icod.Terminal 0.1.0-alpha.11

Build

From the repository root:

build.cmd

or:

./build.sh

Both scripts perform clean, restore, build, test, and pack operations by default and also accept one of those phase names individually.

License

Icod.DCurses is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3 or later.