Using QML for creating curses applications

Question

There's a presentation (video, slides) that demonstrates the use of QML in developing ncurses applications.

I've searched everywhere, but I couldn't find any documentation on the subject, does anyone have any idea on how to achieve what was done in the presentation?

Answer 1

Qt can be (Ncurses and Qt Interoperability) used to handle the async I/O details of an ncurses app even without QML nor any other high-level frameworks.

You could also expose some C++ class framework for text interfaces via QML. For example, as was done in the presentation, you could expose CDK - the Curses Development Kit to QML.

I couldn't find the code from the presentation, but re-implementing it shouldn't be too hard. All you do is wrap CDK objects in QObjects, properly exposing the properties as Qt properties.