jesseduffield.lazygit/pkg/gocui
Stefan Haller 4609985029 Route mouse events to their originating view during a drag gesture
Route all mouse events to the view that was under the pointer when the
left button was pressed, until the button is released. Previously each
event went to whatever view was under the pointer at the time, so a
drag that left the view's bounds started acting on neighboring views.

Since events can now carry positions outside the view, clamp the view
cursor to the view's bounds in that case (handlers still receive the
unclamped position), and require an actual click for tab activation so
that a captured drag crossing the tab row doesn't switch tabs.
2026-07-31 08:22:35 +02:00
..
attribute.go
AUTHORS
block_events_test.go Add gocui primitives to block input during an operation 2026-07-17 12:32:32 +02:00
CHANGES_tcell.md
CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
CONTRIBUTING.md
doc.go
double_click_test.go Add test for double-click detection 2026-07-31 08:22:35 +02:00
edit.go
escape.go Snapshot the view width for command-task rendering on the UI thread 2026-07-17 12:35:54 +02:00
escape_test.go
flush_test.go
gui.go Route mouse events to their originating view during a drag gesture 2026-07-31 08:22:35 +02:00
gui_others.go
gui_windows.go
key.go
keybinding.go
LICENSE
mouse_capture_test.go Route mouse events to their originating view during a drag gesture 2026-07-31 08:22:35 +02:00
README.md
scrollbar.go
scrollbar_test.go
suspend_test.go Schedule a redraw when resuming from suspension 2026-07-20 14:23:09 +02:00
task.go
task_manager.go
task_manager_test.go
tcell_driver.go Deliver mouse release after a drag 2026-07-31 08:22:35 +02:00
tcell_driver_test.go Deliver mouse release after a drag 2026-07-31 08:22:35 +02:00
text_area.go
text_area_test.go
user_event_queue_test.go
view.go Don't share a live view's buffer when copying its content 2026-07-17 12:35:54 +02:00
view_test.go

GOCUI - Go Console User Interface

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Minimalist Go package aimed at creating Console User Interfaces. A community fork based on the amazing work of jroimartin

Features

  • Minimalist API.
  • Views (the "windows" in the GUI) implement the interface io.ReadWriter.
  • Support for overlapping views.
  • The GUI can be modified at runtime (concurrent-safe).
  • Global and view-level keybindings.
  • Mouse support.
  • Colored text.
  • Customizable editing mode.
  • Easy to build reusable widgets, complex layouts...

About fork

This fork has many improvements over the original work from jroimartin.

  • Written ontop of TCell
  • Better wide character support
  • Support for 1 Line height views
  • Better support for running in docker container
  • Customize frame colors
  • Improved code comments and quality
  • Many small improvements
  • Change Visibility of views

For information about this org see: awesome-gocui/about.

Installation

Execute:

$ go get github.com/awesome-gocui/gocui

Documentation

Execute:

$ go doc github.com/awesome-gocui/gocui

Or visit godoc.org to read it online.

Example

See the _example folder for more examples

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"log"

	"github.com/awesome-gocui/gocui"
)

func main() {
	g, err := gocui.NewGui(gocui.OutputNormal, true)
	if err != nil {
		log.Panicln(err)
	}
	defer g.Close()

	g.SetManagerFunc(layout)

	if err := g.SetKeybinding("", gocui.KeyCtrlC, gocui.ModNone, quit); err != nil {
		log.Panicln(err)
	}

	if err := g.MainLoop(); err != nil && !gocui.IsQuit(err) {
		log.Panicln(err)
	}
}

func layout(g *gocui.Gui) error {
	maxX, maxY := g.Size()
	if v, err := g.SetView("hello", maxX/2-7, maxY/2, maxX/2+7, maxY/2+2, 0); err != nil {
		if !gocui.IsUnknownView(err) {
			return err
		}

		if _, err := g.SetCurrentView("hello"); err != nil {
			return err
		}

		fmt.Fprintln(v, "Hello world!")
	}

	return nil
}

func quit(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
	return gocui.ErrQuit
}

Screenshots

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_examples/demo.go

_examples/dynamic.go

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