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ASCIIMATICS
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Asciimatics is a package to help people create full-screen text UIs (from interactive forms to
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ASCII animations) on any platform. It is licensed under the Apache Software Foundation License 2.0.
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Why?
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----
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Why not? It brings a little joy to anyone who was programming in the 80s... Oh and it provides a
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single cross-platform Python class to do all the low-level console function you could ask for,
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including:
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* Coloured/styled text - including 256 colour terminals and unicode characters (even CJK languages)
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* Cursor positioning
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* Keyboard input (without blocking or echoing) including unicode support
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* Mouse input (terminal permitting)
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* Detecting and handling when the console resizes
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* Screen scraping
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In addition, it provides some simple, high-level APIs to provide more complex features including:
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* Anti-aliased ASCII line-drawing
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* Image to ASCII conversion - including JPEG and GIF formats
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* Many animation effects - e.g. sprites, particle systems, banners, etc.
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* Various widgets for text UIs - e.g. buttons, text boxes, radio buttons, etc.
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Currently this package has been proven to work on CentOS 6 & 7, Raspbian (i.e. Debian wheezy),
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Ubuntu 14.04, Windows 7, 8 & 10, OSX 10.11 and Android Marshmallow (courtesy of https://termux.com),
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though it should also work for any other platform that provides a working curses implementation.
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It should be implementation agnostic and has been successfully tested on CPython and PyPy2.
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(Please let me know if you successfully verified it on other platforms so that I can update this
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list).
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Installation
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------------
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Asciimatics supports Python version 3. For the precise list of tested versions,
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refer to `pypi <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/asciimatics>`_. The last version of asciimatics
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to support Python 2 is v1.14.
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To install asciimatics, simply install with `pip` as follows:
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.. code-block:: bash
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$ pip install asciimatics
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This should install all your dependencies for you. If you don't use pip or it fails to install
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them, you can install the dependencies directly using the packages listed in `requirements.txt
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<https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics/blob/master/requirements.txt>`_.
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Additionally, Windows users (who aren't using `pip`) will need to install `pywin32`.
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How to use it?
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To use the low-level API, simply create a Screen and use it to print coloured text at any location,
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or get mouse/keyboard input. For example, here is a variant on the classic "hello world":
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.. code-block:: python
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from random import randint
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from asciimatics.screen import Screen
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def demo(screen):
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while True:
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screen.print_at('Hello world!',
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randint(0, screen.width), randint(0, screen.height),
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colour=randint(0, screen.colours - 1),
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bg=randint(0, screen.colours - 1))
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ev = screen.get_key()
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if ev in (ord('Q'), ord('q')):
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return
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screen.refresh()
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Screen.wrapper(demo)
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That same code works on Windows, OSX and Linux and paves the way for all the higher level features.
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These still need the Screen, but now you also create a Scene using some Effects and then get the
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Screen to play it. For example, this code:
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.. code-block:: python
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from asciimatics.effects import Cycle, Stars
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from asciimatics.renderers import FigletText
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from asciimatics.scene import Scene
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from asciimatics.screen import Screen
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def demo(screen):
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effects = [
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Cycle(
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screen,
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FigletText("ASCIIMATICS", font='big'),
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int(screen.height / 2 - 8)),
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Cycle(
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screen,
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FigletText("ROCKS!", font='big'),
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int(screen.height / 2 + 3)),
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Stars(screen, 200)
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]
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screen.play([Scene(effects, 500)])
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Screen.wrapper(demo)
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should produce something like this:
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.. image:: https://asciinema.org/a/18756.png
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:alt: asciicast
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:target: https://asciinema.org/a/18756?autoplay=1
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Or maybe you're looking to create a TUI? In which case this
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`simple code <https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics/blob/master/samples/contact_list.py>`__
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will give you this:
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.. image:: https://asciinema.org/a/45946.png
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:alt: contact list sample
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:target: https://asciinema.org/a/45946?autoplay=1
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Documentation
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-------------
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Full documentation of all the above (and more!) is available at http://asciimatics.readthedocs.org/
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More examples
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-------------
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More examples of what you can do are available in the project samples directory, hosted on GitHub.
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See https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics/tree/v1.14/samples.
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To view them, simply download these files and then simply run them directly with `python`.
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Alternatively, you can browse recordings of many of the samples in the gallery at
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https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics/wiki.
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Bugs and enhancements
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---------------------
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If you have a problem, please check out the troubleshooting guide at
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http://asciimatics.readthedocs.io/en/latest/troubleshooting.html. If this doesn't solve your
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problem, you can report bugs (or submit enhancement requests) at
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https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics/issues.
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Alternatively, if you just have some questions, feel free to drop in at
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https://gitter.im/asciimatics/Lobby.
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Contributing to the project
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---------------------------
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If you'd like to take part in this project (and see your name in the credits!), check out the
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guidance at http://asciimatics.readthedocs.org/en/latest/contributing.html
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