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ZigZag - A TUI framework for Zig

ZigZag, a TUI framework for Zig, has been released and received positive feedback from users, though one user reported a bug where y-axis ticks in plots are ordered high to low instead of low to high. Another user requested a timeline component for chat-like interfaces, similar to RichLog but with customizable content and prepending support.

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ZigZag - A TUI framework for Zig
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Guilty as charged sorry for the mess, I was just lazy. I’ll be more careful next time.

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pachde 23 Why wait for next time? You can edit your post and fix it.

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Hi, first of all, thanks for making this, I’ve picked a TUI as my first zig project to learn the language and am excited to use this.

I’m trying to make a plot currently and I think you might have a bug in there. The plot shows the correct curve of the function, but for some reason the y-axis ticks are ordered high to low (going up the y axis) not low to high. I tried sin/cos and linear functions. Then I saw your charts example picture in this thread, which shows the same behaviour.

I just did a zig fetch, so I think I have the latest version.

Hi! I was looking for something like this. Thank you!

I now use ZigZag for my project and found it really straight-forward to use. Thanks for this wonderful library. I am making a project with chat-like interface. I wonder whether ZigZag can have a timeline component? It is actually quite similar to RichLog component, except the content of each item (log) can be customized by the developer. The scrolling, searching and filtering are all similar to RichLog. There are some applications for such timeline component, for example, chat in instant messager or microblog (mastodon). Now RichLog only support appending. A timeline component needs also to support prepending when users scroll back to find past messages (or toots) which will be retrieved from server on demand. This is just my small wish for ZigZag library.

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