Examples

The repository ships 48 runnable examples under examples/. They are not decoration: building them all is how the crate checks that its public API still works from outside, so any change that breaks a downstream program breaks the example build first.

cargo run --example showcase     # run one
cargo build --examples           # build all 48

Quit with Alt+X

These are full-screen terminal applications. Leave through the application, not by closing the terminal window, or you will be left in raw mode.

Start here

Example	Lines	What it shows
quick_start_00 .. quick_start_05	10-130	The application shell, assembled one piece at a time. Walked through in the quick start tutorial.
minimal_app	80	A status line and a window, no menu bar. The equivalent of deriving from TProgram instead of TApplication.
dialogs	64	The three standard library dialogs.
showcase	1785	The broad demo: calculator, calendar, ASCII table and puzzle windows, overlapping with shadows and z-order.

By subject

Application shell

• menu_status — a menu bar with submenus, a right-click context menu, and a status line with hot spots and hints.
• command_set — buttons that enable and disable themselves as application state changes, driven by the global command set.
• function_keys — F1 through F10, and what actually arrives from the terminal.
• desktop_logo — a custom desktop background, ported from Borland's desklogo example.
• dynamic_title — changing a window title while the application runs.

Windows and layout

• window_resize — dragging, resizing and the growth modes that decide how children follow.
• test_window_overlap — modal against non-modal, and what a modal window blocks.
• broadcast — a standalone group distributing a broadcast to its children.
• wrong_owner — a deliberate mistake: a button that reports the wrong owner type and picks up the wrong palette. Useful when your colours look off.

Controls

• new_controls — the widgets added beyond the Borland set, on two tabbed pages.
• cluster_tooltip — multi-item check box and radio clusters, tooltips, and the frame zoom triangle.
• list_components — the list viewer family end to end.
• sorted_listbox — a sorted list with binary search and type-ahead.
• tree_view — a hierarchical outline view.
• progress_bar — determinate and marquee bars, animated as overlay widgets.
• label_link — labels that focus the input field they are linked to.
• validator — every validator type in one dialog: filter, range and picture.

Files and the editor

• file_dialog — the open and save dialogs.
• file_browser — a directory tree beside a file list.

- pascal_ide — the editor from the Bruto-Pascal project, with a breakpoint gutter and Pascal syntax highlighting. The most complex example in the tree.

Colour and text

• palette_themes — replacing the application palette at runtime.
• text_styling — a table of every text style the terminal layer can emit.
• kitty_image, kitty_background, kitty_biorhythm — real images in the terminal through the Kitty graphics protocol.

Terminal and plumbing

• terminal_widget — a scrolling output viewer fed by a simulated build log, matching Borland's terminal.cc.
• log_window — tracing output routed into a scrollable window.
• suspend_resume — handing the terminal back to the shell and taking it again.
• screenshot — the built-in screen capture shortcuts.
• beep — audio feedback.
• ssh_server — serving the application over SSH. Requires --features ssh.
• test_events, test_mouse — diagnostic tools that print every event, for when a key or a click is not arriving.

Whole applications

• biorhythm — the calculator built in the tutorial: a validated date form and a custom chart view.
• ui_features — beeps, dynamic titles and message boxes together.

Reading an example

Four of them are picked apart in the walkthroughs.