CDK (programming library)

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.

CDK

Original author(s)	Mike Glover
Developer(s)	Thomas Dickey
Stable release	5.0-20200228 / February 28, 2020; 5 years ago (2020-02-28)
Repository	invisible-mirror.net/archives/cdk/
Operating system	Unix, Linux, POSIX
Type	Programming library
License	BSD
Website	invisible-island.net/cdk/

For other uses, see CDK.

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)