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STFL is a library which implements a curses-based widget set for text
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terminals. The public STFL API is only 14 simple function calls big and
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there are already generic SWIG bindings. Thus is very easy to port STFL
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to additional scripting languages.
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A special language (the Structured Terminal Forms Language) is used to
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describe STFL GUIs. The language is designed to be easy and fast to
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write so an application programmer does not need to spend ages fiddling
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around with the GUI and can concentrate on the more interesting
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programming tasks.
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There are two different syntaxes for STFL code, one designed to make
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handwriting of STFL code as easy as possible and one aiming at generated
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STFL code.
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The STFL GUI descriptions (written in STFL code) do not contain any
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concrete layouting information such as x/y coordinates of widgets.
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Instead container widgets such as vertical and horizontal boxes as well
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as tables are used to group widgets and the actual layouting work is
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done by the STFL library. Thus STFL GUIs can handle terminals of
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different sizes and terminal resize events transparently for the
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application programmer.
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