# The devel/stfl port

## stfl-0.24 – Structured Terminal Forms Language/Library

## Description

    STFL is a library which implements a curses-based widget set for text
    terminals. The public STFL API is only 14 simple function calls big and
    there are already generic SWIG bindings. Thus is very easy to port STFL
    to additional scripting languages.

    A special language (the Structured Terminal Forms Language) is used to
    describe STFL GUIs. The language is designed to be easy and fast to
    write so an application programmer does not need to spend ages fiddling
    around with the GUI and can concentrate on the more interesting
    programming tasks.

    There are two different syntaxes for STFL code, one designed to make
    handwriting of STFL code as easy as possible and one aiming at generated
    STFL code.

    The STFL GUI descriptions (written in STFL code) do not contain any
    concrete layouting information such as x/y coordinates of widgets.
    Instead container widgets such as vertical and horizontal boxes as well
    as tables are used to group widgets and the actual layouting work is
    done by the STFL library. Thus STFL GUIs can handle terminals of
    different sizes and terminal resize events transparently for the
    application programmer.

WWW: http://www.clifford.at/stfl/

Categories:
  devel

## Library dependencies

- converters/libiconv

## Build dependencies

- devel/gmake

## Run dependencies