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Description:
Curses development kit provides predefined curses widget for apps

Type: Formula | Latest Version: 5.0-20251014@0 | Tracked Since: Dec 17, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Developer tools

Tags: curses tui widgets terminal-ui development library

Install: brew install cdk

About:
CDK (Curses Development Kit) is a library of advanced curses widgets and utility functions for building text-based user interfaces. It provides pre-built components like scrollable lists, dialog boxes, and button widgets that abstract away low-level ncurses complexity. This toolkit significantly accelerates development of robust terminal applications by offering reusable, feature-rich UI elements.

Key Features:

Pre-built widgets (scrolling lists, dialogs, buttons)
Advanced text entry with editing capabilities
Layered window management
Comprehensive widget set for TUI applications
Compatibility with standard ncurses

Use Cases:

Building interactive terminal-based configuration tools
Creating text-based file managers or system utilities
Developing console applications with complex UI requirements
Prototyping command-line interfaces with rich interactions

Alternatives:

ncurses – Lower-level library; CDK provides higher-level widgets built on ncurses
dialog – Focuses on simple dialogs; CDK offers more comprehensive widget set for full applications
tui-rs – Rust-based alternative; CDK is C-based and suitable for native C/C++ applications

License: BSD-4-Clause-UC

Bottles available for: arm64_tahoe, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, sonoma, arm64_linux, x86_64_linux

Version History

Detected	Change	Commit
Oct 15, 2025 11:10am	VERSION_BUMP	c6fb5a5c
Sep 13, 2025 4:15am	VERSION_BUMP	a79c8589
Jan 17, 2025 2:13am	VERSION_BUMP	55bd8b24
Sep 11, 2024 12:04pm	VERSION_BUMP	58df8782
Jun 21, 2024 12:30am	VERSION_BUMP	9c8b7ef8
Feb 7, 2023 1:32am	VERSION_BUMP	76fac314
Feb 7, 2023 1:32am	VERSION_BUMP	0b167318
Nov 19, 2022 11:38pm	VERSION_BUMP	3c1a5fbe