This crate allows you to work with alternate and raw screen cross-platform. It supports all UNIX and windows terminals down to windows 7 (not all terminals are tested see Tested Terminals for more info)
This crate is a sub-crate of crossterm to move between screen buffers and switch to raw-mode, it can be use individually.
Other sub-crates are: - Crossterm Style - Crossterm Terminal - Crossterm Input - Crossterm Cursor
When you want to use other modules as well you might want to use crossterm with feature flags.
In case you are wondering what 'alternate' or 'raw' screen is, you could checkout the book describing this in more detail.
All examples of how crossterm_input works can be found in the examples directory.
And you might consider reading the book which has a dedicated section on alternate and raw modes.
Add the crossterm_screen package to your Cargo.toml file.
[dependencies]
crossterm_screen = "0.2"
And import the crossterm_screen modules you want to use.
rust
pub use crossterm_screen::{AlternateScreen, RawScreen};
These are the features of this crate:
Planned features: - make is possible to switch between multiple buffers.
The examples folder has more complete and verbose examples.
This crate supports all Unix terminals and windows terminals down to Windows 7 but not all of them have been tested. If you have used this library for a terminal other than the above list without issues feel free to add it to the above list, I really would appreciate it.
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details