gansm/finalcut

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1199 stars · 60 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

FINAL CUT is a lightweight C++ widget toolkit for building text-based user interface (TUI) terminal applications with its own windowing system, requiring no external libraries like ncurses. It offers a Qt-inspired object-oriented class design with widgets such as dialogs, buttons, menus, input fields, and list boxes, plus mouse support and full Unicode/UTF-8 handling.

Use cases

• build a terminal user interface in C++
• create text-mode console applications with windows and dialogs
• write a TUI app without depending on ncurses
• add menus, buttons, and input fields to a terminal program
• build a cross-platform Unix terminal GUI toolkit app
• render Unicode and full-width characters in a text UI

When to choose

• you want a self-contained C++ TUI library with no ncurses/termbox dependency
• you prefer a Qt-like object-oriented widget API
• you need full Unicode, UTF-8, and mouse support in the terminal
• you target multiple Unix-like platforms including BSD and macOS

When to avoid

• you need a graphical (non-terminal) GUI
• you are not programming in C++
• you want a TUI toolkit for Python, Rust, or another language
• you need a very large ecosystem of third-party widgets and examples

Facets

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ui-components terminal-ui gui developer-tools cross-platform bsd cpp cross-platform cli tui widget-toolkit text-user-interface termcap unicode console-applications qt-inspired command-line linux macos

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