Vitapi

Vitapi (it started as an acronym) is a lightweight, easy to use, and above all, simple alternative to ncurses, without the legacy support, and without complex features. It targets mostly modern xterm capabilities, supports 256 colors, the mouse, and a nice powerful color model. It provides a C API, for maximum utility.

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Vitapi provides a C API that offers these capabilities:

• Off-screen buffering of output
• Ability to place colored text anywhere on a screen
• Primitive support - colored rectangles
• Mouse input
• Keyboard input - function keys, ctrl, shift etc
• 256-color support
• Color combination (weak blending)
• Several color addressing schemes
• Conversion between 256, 16 and 8 colors
• Terminal width/height determination
• Fast and portable