Metadata-Version: 1.1
Name: asciimatics
Version: 1.7.1
Summary: A cross-platform package to replace curses (mouse/keyboard input & text colours/positioning) and create ASCII animations
Home-page: https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics.git
Author: Peter Brittain
Author-email: peter.brittain.os@gmail.com
License: Apache 2.0
Description: ASCIIMATICS
        ===========
        
        Asciimatics is a package to help people create full-screen text UIs (from 
        interactive forms to ASCII animations) on any platform.  It is licensed
        under the Apache Software Foundation License 2.0.
        
        It originated from some work that I did on PiConga to create a retro text
        credits roll for the project.  This worked so well, I re-used it for another
        project.  At that point I felt it might be fun to share with others.
        
        Why?
        ----
        
        Why not?  It brings a little joy to anyone who was programming in the 80s...
        Oh and it provides a single cross-platform Python class to do all the low-level
        console function you could ask for, including:
        
        * Coloured/styled text - including 256 colour terminals and unicode characters
        * Cursor positioning
        * Keyboard input (without blocking or echoing) including unicode support
        * Mouse input (terminal permitting)
        * Detecting and handling when the console resizes
        * Screen scraping
        
        In addition, it provides some simple, high-level APIs to provide more complex
        features including:
        
        * Anti-aliased ASCII line-drawing
        * Image to ASCII conversion - including JPEG and GIF formats
        * Many animation effects - e.g. sprites, particle systems, banners, etc.
        * Various widgets for text UIs - e.g. buttons, text boxes, radio buttons, etc.
        
        Currently this package has been proven to work on CentOS 6 & 7, Raspbian (i.e.
        Debian wheezy), Ubuntu 14.04, Windows 7, 8 & 10 and OSX 10.11, though it should
        also work for any other platform that provides a working curses implementation.  
        
        (Please let me know if you successfully verified it on other platforms so
        that I can update this list).
        
        Installation
        ------------
        
        Asciimatics supports Python versions 2 & 3.  For the precise list of tested
        versions, refer to `pypi <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/asciimatics>`_.
        
        To install asciimatics, simply install with `pip` as follows:
        
        .. code-block:: bash
        
            $ pip install asciimatics
        
        This should install all your dependencies for you.  If you don't use pip
        or it fails to install them, you can install the dependencies directly 
        using the packages listed in `requirements.txt 
        <https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics/blob/master/requirements.txt>`_.
        Additionally, Windows users will need to install `pypiwin32`.
        
        How to use it?
        --------------
        To use the low-level API, simply create a Screen and use it to print
        coloured text at any location, or get mouse/keyboard input.  For example,
        here is a variant on the classic "hello world":
        
        .. code-block:: python
        
            from random import randint
            from asciimatics.screen import Screen
        
            def demo(screen):
                while True:
                    screen.print_at('Hello world!',
                                    randint(0, screen.width), randint(0, screen.height),
                                    colour=randint(0, screen.colours - 1),
                                    bg=randint(0, screen.colours - 1))
                    ev = screen.get_key()
                    if ev in (ord('Q'), ord('q')):
                        return
                    screen.refresh()
        
            Screen.wrapper(demo)
        
        That same code works on Windows, OSX and Linux and paves the way for
        all the higher level features.  These still need the Screen, but now
        you also create a Scene using some Effects and then get the Screen 
        to play it.  For example, this code:
        
        .. code-block:: python
        
            from asciimatics.effects import Cycle, Stars
            from asciimatics.renderers import FigletText
            from asciimatics.scene import Scene
            from asciimatics.screen import Screen
            
            def demo(screen):
                effects = [
                    Cycle(
                        screen,
                        FigletText("ASCIIMATICS", font='big'),
                        int(screen.height / 2 - 8)),
                    Cycle(
                        screen,
                        FigletText("ROCKS!", font='big'),
                        int(screen.height / 2 + 3)),
                    Stars(screen, 200)
                ]
                screen.play([Scene(effects, 500)])
            
            Screen.wrapper(demo)
        
        should produce something like this:
        
        .. image:: https://asciinema.org/a/18756.png
           :alt: asciicast
           :target: https://asciinema.org/a/18756?autoplay=1
        
        Or maybe you're looking to create a TUI?  In which case this
        `simple code <https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics/
        blob/master/samples/contact_list.py>`__ will give you this:
        
        .. image:: https://asciinema.org/a/45946.png
            :alt: contact list sample
            :target: https://asciinema.org/a/45946?autoplay=1
        
        Documentation
        -------------
        
        Full documentation of all the above (and more!) is available at 
        http://asciimatics.readthedocs.org/
        
        More examples
        -------------
        
        More examples of what you can do are available in the project samples
        directory, hosted on GitHub.  See
        https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics/tree/v1.7/samples.
        
        To view them, simply download these files and then simply run them directly
        with `python`.  Alternatively, you can browse recordings of many of the samples
        in the gallery at https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics/wiki.
        
        Bugs and enhancements
        ---------------------
        
        If you have a problem, please check out the troubleshooting guide
        at http://asciimatics.readthedocs.io/en/latest/troubleshooting.html.
        If this doesn't solve your problem, you can report bugs (or submit 
        enhancement requests) at
        https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics/issues.
        
        Contributing to the project
        ---------------------------
        
        If you'd like to take part in this project (and see your name in the credits!),
        check out the guidance at
        http://asciimatics.readthedocs.org/en/latest/intro.html#contributing-to-this-project.
        
Keywords: ascii ansi art credits titles animation curses ncurses windows xterm mouse keyboard terminal tty color colour crossplatform console
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable
Classifier: Environment :: Console
Classifier: Environment :: Console :: Curses
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: Topic :: Text Processing :: General
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.3
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.4
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.5
Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: User Interfaces
Classifier: Topic :: Terminals
