CDK (programming library) explained

CDK
Developer:	Thomas Dickey
Author:	Mike Glover
Latest Release Version:	5.0-20200228

CDK is a library written in C that provides a collection of widgets for text user interfaces (TUI) development. The widgets wrap ncurses functionality to make writing full screen curses programs faster. Perl^{[1] [2]} and Python^[3] bindings are also available.

There are two versions of the library. It was originally written by Mike Glover, introduced as version 4.6 in comp.sources.unix.^[4] The other version was extended beginning in May 1999 by Thomas Dickey.

Programs that use CDK

• Password Management System A console based password management program

See also

• Dialog (software)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Curses-Devkit-4.9.3.readme . August 15, 1997 . October 5, 2013.
2. Web site: CDK  - Curses Development Kit - Perl Binding . October 5, 2013 .
3. Web site: pyCDK 0.1 . October 5, 2013 .
4. v29i080: cdk - curses development kit, V4.6.0 . comp.sources.unix . Mike . Glover . January 12, 1996.