Designing Textual user interface using ncurses

Question

Hi All, I m planning to write a utility using ncurses..that is menus and panels on unix. Is there any way of designing my TUI and see how it looks and feels..before i do the actual coding.. any utilities for this..or some articles..links..etc..

Thanks.

Answer 1

I'm a huge fan of ncurses but I don't know of any tool like this. You can try just doing pencil and paper or Balsamiq mockups. Probably, the best thing to do is to write a slimmed down version of your UI without all the business logic and see how it feels from there.