Libeco is a library that provides a set of tools and useful functions to run console programs both in Linux and Windows. Its first intention was to unify C programs compiled using the proprietary old <conio.h>, making it easy to run those programs in Linux.
After some point, the Libeco library agregated some very interesting stuff (written in Linux) that was ported back to Windows.
So, using Libeco, you can count on an unified way to express yourself in C and keep compatibility with both OS's.
There are some great stuff there to help your terminal program to be more safe when running iteractively. Validation functions that limit the user input to certain ranges, types or letters, and even a great compiler (geteval()) that by itself is worth all of it.
You can even play some basic music (and that was inserted in Libeco to help porting Akernaak from BASIC TRS-80!) with playmml.
Paint and control screen and keyboard, get key names and extended ascii codes, clear screen, and so on. That's just basic stuff.
Some more important functions will help you in your scientific projects, like calculating combinations, factorials, arrangements, permutations, converting numbers from one base to another, converting ranges (that can be used to normalize variables), etc.
For games, you can randomly choose numbers without repetition (with randnorep()), pool the keyboard, check pipe communications...
Now that you have being teased, take a good look at the documentation and help yourself!
In appreciation,
Dr. Bèco
To use libeco just add:
#include "libeco.h"
at the start of your code and compile it against the C source, linking with the mathematical library (lm) with:
$ gcc myprogram.c libeco.c -o myprogram.x -lm
If you use the function ballwait(), you need also to add -lncurses as this is the only function that needs the curses library.
If you are under Windows, add -lconio (from from Borland ( http://conio.sourceforge.net/). You can find the conio.h library on DEV-CPP package 2.0 ( http://conio.sf.net/ )
- Author: Prof. Dr. Ruben Carlo Benante (Dr. Bèco)
- Email: rcb@beco.cc
- Home: (http://www.beco.cc)
- Date: 2017-05-04
- Copyright (c) 2009-2017 GNU GPL v2
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