Libraries for displaying a text-mode menu?

Question

In a game project I was working on, I was seriously slowed down -- to the point of giving up -- by how there don\'t seem to be any libraries that can simplify the process of

Answer 1

Try ncurses, it is on MIT license, which is much more permissive than GPL. It is very easy to use: menus, dialog boxes, checkboxes - it is all there. It is event-driven like most GUI libraries.