Is it possible to create "inline" programs?

[rhodeon]

I'm evaluating tview against bubbletea for a basic CLI tool. While tview ticks most of my boxes, an essential functionality I need is launching the program inline in the terminal.

For example, from the bubbletea textarea demo:

bubbletea.mp4

Here the program runs directly in the shell session and ending it returns to the prompt, all in an uninterrupted view.

On the other hand, with the tview textarea demo, a new screen session is created which replaces the parent view entirely until the program ends:

tview.mp4

Is the bubbletea behaviour possible to configure with tview? I have tried setting the fullscreen attribute of the root to false, but that only affects the newly launched screen.

I see tview makes use of the gdamore/tcell library for launching the screen, so perhaps this is beyond its scope.

[digitallyserviced]

@rhodeon
What you are seeing is the difference between invoking the alternate screen (tcell/tview) vs. normal stdout (bubbletea).

Now I do not know how this will work or if it will at all.

TCELL_ALTSCREEN=disable go run ./main.go

Essentially that env var should stop tcell from using the alternate screen. Export it, declare before running your app or go runing it