feat: Implement comprehensive JLine Curses TUI library with focus indicators and repaint system#1349
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…icators and repaint system This commit implements a complete Terminal User Interface (TUI) library for JLine with: - **Essential Components**: List, Table, Tree, Input, Label, Button, TextArea - **Layout Containers**: Box, Window, Panel for organizing components - **Interactive Demo**: Complete CursesDemo showcasing all functionality - **Focus Indicators**: Yellow borders and titles for focused components - **Theme Integration**: Consistent styling through DefaultTheme - **Visual Feedback**: Clear indication of which component has focus - **Invalidation API**: Components automatically invalidate on state changes - **Efficient Updates**: Only invalid components are redrawn - **Focus-Aware**: Automatic invalidation on focus changes - **Performance**: Minimal screen updates for optimal performance - **KeyEvent System**: Comprehensive key event processing - **Keyboard Navigation**: Arrow keys, Tab, Enter, Escape support - **Modifier Keys**: Ctrl, Alt, Shift detection and handling - **Shortcut System**: Configurable keyboard shortcuts - **Comprehensive Tests**: 368+ tests across all modules - **Virtual Screen Testing**: Mock screen for component testing - **Integration Tests**: End-to-end functionality verification - **Code Quality**: Spotless formatting and clean architecture - **POSIX Commands**: Comprehensive POSIX command implementation - **Build System**: Clean Maven build with proper dependency management - **Documentation**: Updated module documentation and examples The implementation follows TUI best practices from libraries like Ratatui and Cursive, providing a modern, efficient, and user-friendly terminal interface experience.
The KeyParser class is a utility class with only static methods. Adding a private constructor prevents instantiation and fixes the missing-explicit-ctor warning that was causing compilation to fail with -Werror.
Convert 5 test files from main()-based tests to JUnit 5 @test methods so they are picked up by Surefire: - KeyEventTest, KeyMapBuilderTest, MenuFixesTest, ModifierKeyTest, ShortcutTest Add 3 new test files for additional coverage: - ComponentRenderingTest: Label rendering/alignment, Input editing, Button clicks/rendering - KeyNavigationTest: List/Table/Tree navigation and selection - InvalidationTest: invalidation lifecycle and parent propagation Add curses TUI documentation page at website/docs/advanced/curses-tui.md Total tests: 131 (up from 37)
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Augment ReviewRebased onto current master and added the following improvements: Tests converted to JUnit 5The 5 test files that used
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🤖 Augment PR SummarySummary: Adds a higher-level curses TUI framework to JLine with structured keyboard events, richer widgets, focus/shortcut handling, and expanded rendering/test support. Changes:
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- Button: use getScreenPosition() in doDraw to render at correct position instead of always at (0,0) - Box: default null border to Single to prevent NPE in switch - Menu: replace isShortcutMatch with matchShortcut using global KeyMap to support function keys (F1/F3) and chorded shortcuts (C-x C-s) - Input: add handleKey(KeyEvent) for character input, arrow navigation, backspace/delete, home/end, Ctrl+A select all - TextArea: add handleKey(KeyEvent) for character input, arrow navigation, enter, backspace/delete, home/end, page up/down - Button: add handleKey(KeyEvent) for Enter and Space activation - Docs: clarify that GUIImpl.redraw() currently redraws all windows each cycle; invalidation state is available but selective repaint is not yet implemented
Add 'curses' as a built-in demo in both demo.sh and demo.bat, mapping to org.jline.demo.CursesDemo.
- AbstractWindow: add Tab/Shift+Tab to cycle focus between focusable components in the window. Collects all non-NoFocus leaf components and cycles through them in tree order. - AbstractWindow: move Alt+letter shortcut check before focused component delegation so shortcuts always work regardless of which component has focus. Search recursively through all nested containers. - AbstractWindow: 'q' to close now only fires when no component is focused, or when the focused component doesn't handle it (so typing 'q' in an Input works correctly). - KeyParser: add Shift+Tab (backtab, ESC[Z) parsing - KeyMapBuilder: bind key_btab capability for Shift+Tab
Add new form widgets (Checkbox, RadioButton/RadioGroup, ComboBox, ProgressBar, Separator), modal dialog system (showMessage, showConfirm, showInput), and real GridPanel layout with row/col spanning. Improve UI polish: theme-based styling for all components (gray backgrounds), semi-transparent window shadows via Screen.darken(), white focused borders, proper window sizing from preferred size, scrollbars for TextArea and List, title clipping, label area filling. Add mouse support: click-to-position in TextArea/List/Tree/Table/Input, button click on release, menu drag-to-select across submenus, tree expand/collapse on triangle click, close button on press. Fix focus management: active window tracking for border styling, modal dialogs defocus main window, arrow key navigation for checkboxes/radio buttons, hide focus highlight when component loses focus. Fix rendering bugs: BorderPanel center-first shrink order, skip zero-size components, guard against negative dimensions on resize, full screen redraw on terminal resize. Add comprehensive tests and enhanced demo showcasing all new features. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Overview
This PR implements a TUI library for JLine's curses module with interactive components, keyboard/mouse event handling, focus management, and a smart repaint system.
Key Features
Components
[x]/[ ]rendering, change listeners, arrow key navigation between siblings(o)/( )rendering, arrow key navigationLayout System
Dialog System
Input Handling
Focus & Repaint System
Theming
resolveStyle()helperbg:whitein terminal 16-color)Screen.darken()— preserves characters with darkened styleDemo
CursesDemoshowcasing all componentsTesting
Tests passing across test classes:
NewWidgetsTest: 25 tests covering Checkbox, RadioButton/RadioGroup, ComboBox, ProgressBar, Separator, GridPanel, DialogBorderPanelTest: Updated for center-first shrink orderVirtualScreenDrawingTest: Updated for title clippingFiles Changed
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impl/Checkbox.java,impl/RadioButton.java,impl/RadioGroup.javaimpl/ComboBox.java,impl/ProgressBar.java,impl/Separator.javaimpl/Dialog.javatest/NewWidgetsTest.javaModified Files
Component.java(Modal behavior),Curses.java(GridConstraint, widget/dialog factories)GUI.java(getActiveWindow),Screen.java(darken method)AbstractComponent.java(resolveStyle, focusSibling helpers)AbstractWindow.java(active window border, close on release, preferred size with border)GUIImpl.java(window layout, full redraw on resize, active window tracking)BorderPanel.java(center-first shrink),AbstractPanel.java(skip zero-size)DefaultTheme.java(all new component styles, gray backgrounds, white focus borders)Label.java(theme, area fill, text clipping),Button.java(theme, mouse click on release)Input.java,List.java,Table.java,TextArea.java,Tree.java(theme, mouse handling, focus-aware highlight)Menu.java(drag-to-select, shadow, press/release semantics)VirtualScreen.java(darken method)Box.java(title clipping, focus border)GridPanel.java(real layout algorithm)CursesDemo.java(enhanced demo with all new features)