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This is a simple UI toolkit for .NET.
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+It is an updated version of
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+[gui.cs](https://github.com/mono/mono-curses/blob/master/gui.cs) that
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+I wrote for [mono-curses](https://github.com/mono/mono-curses)
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+
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+# Running and Building
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+
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+To run this, you will need a peer checkout of mono-ncurses to this
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+directory. I should make a NuGet package at some point.
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# Input Handling
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The input handling of gui.cs is similar in some ways to Emacs and the
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@@ -25,4 +34,19 @@ been abstracted, an implementation that uses `System.Console` is
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possible, but would have to emulate some of the behavior of curses,
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namely that operations are performed on the buffer, and the Refresh
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call reflects the contents of an internal buffer into the screen and
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-position the cursor in the last set position at the end.
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+position the cursor in the last set position at the end.
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+
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+# Tasks
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+
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+There are some tasks in the github issues, and some others are being
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+tracked in the TODO.md file.
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+
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+# History
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+
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+The original gui.cs was a UI toolkit in a single file and tied to
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+curses. This version tries to be console-agnostic (but currently only
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+has a curses backend, go figure) and instead of having a
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+container/widget model, only uses Views (which can contain subviews)
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+and changes the rendering model to rely on damage regions instead of
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+burderning each view with the details.
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Miguel de Icaza