The UIs are text only, so they are textual. Modern TUIs may support mouse events. That this tool can export to several TUI frameworks is evidence that these UIs are indeed TUIs, even if not the most traditional.

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jmmv 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

“Modern TUIs may support mouse events” hah! They already did in the 80s…

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rob74 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah, remember good old Norton Commander (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Commander) - not that newfangled clone Midnight Commander, the original? Or the Borland text mode IDEs (https://ilyabirman.net/meanwhile/all/ui-museum-turbo-pascal-...), complete with windows, menus, buttons, scroll bars, file dialogs etc. etc.?

	▲	jgilias 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Oh boy, that sent me down the memory lane hard. I also had to Google “Volkov Commander”, as that name sprung to mind immediately too.

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jvanderbot 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

No, a text-based UI is not sufficient. It must also work in a text-only session e.g., on the CLI over SSH.

	▲	627467 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Do UIs exported from this tool not worknon CLI over SSH?

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elxr 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> That this tool can export to several TUI frameworks

It clearly cannot. Have you even tested it?

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papageek 6 hours ago | parent [-]

This? Alpha notice: Code export is not functional yet. We're actively working on it — check back soon.

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elxr 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Exactly, don't know why people are acting like actually makes TUIs, it's just a rough mockup of a TUI for now, with a convoluted figma-like UI.

I guess the headline and website was enough to get all these upvotes. Quite disappointing as someone in the early stages of making a TUI tutorial myself.

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tracker1 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I've been juggling some BBS related projects myself that involve some TUI work over raw and web sockets that I've been working on... It's definitely a fascinating space and there's been a lot of relatively recent activity in the space.

	▲	elxr 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> and there's been a lot of relatively recent activity in the space. 100 percent agree. I personally love what the openTUI folks have been up to. As weird as this might be to say, we're still in the early, early stage of TUI adoption.