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Re:Asciimatics – create full-screen text UIs on any platform by vortex_ape on Saturday August 29, 2020 @06:10PM (#24319778)
Asciimatics is awesome! I was able to create this terminal-based presentation tool (with colors and effects) using it: https://github.com/vinayak-mehta/present
Re:Asciimatics – create full-screen text UIs on any platform by mebr on Saturday August 29, 2020 @06:38PM (#24319911)
That looks really fun!
Re:Asciimatics – create full-screen text UIs on any platform by vortex_ape on Saturday August 29, 2020 @06:54PM (#24319995)
Yes it was fun making it thanks to all the asciimatics effects! I was also able to extend an internal asciimatics class to add a feature for pre-recorded code demos, which lets you _play_ code on a slide, like someone is typing it :D
Re:Asciimatics – create full-screen text UIs on any platform by teddyh on Saturday August 29, 2020 @07:42PM (#24320196)
How does this compare to Urwid¹, which also does this?

1. http://urwid.org/

Re:Asciimatics – create full-screen text UIs on any platform by dredmorbius on Sunday August 30, 2020 @03:21AM (#24321919)
As an app dev newb, I was searching recently for something vaguely TUI toolkit-ish, with standard pluggable elements. I know of ncurses, but it's quite low-level. I was surprised to find virtually nothing (though my search-fu may have been weak).

What resources --- libraries, documentation, books --- for TUI development would folks recommend?

Re:Asciimatics – create full-screen text UIs on any platform by ludsan on Sunday August 30, 2020 @08:44AM (#24322890)
There is tcell and tview for golang.

https://github.com/rivo/tview

Re:Asciimatics – create full-screen text UIs on any platform by voldacar on Saturday August 29, 2020 @07:54PM (#24320242)
I'm loving all these TUI libraries being posted here lately.
Re:Asciimatics – create full-screen text UIs on any platform by dredmorbius on Sunday August 30, 2020 @03:21AM (#24321924)
What else recently, if you don't mind?
Re:Asciimatics – create full-screen text UIs on any platform by voldacar on Sunday August 30, 2020 @01:25PM (#24324286)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24318367

Here's one, with a few more in comments. There were a bunch more posted over the past ~72 hrs that I can't seem to find now

Re:Asciimatics – create full-screen text UIs on any platform by dredmorbius on Monday August 31, 2020 @04:56PM (#24335848)
Thanks.
Re:Asciimatics – create full-screen text UIs on any platform by gojomo on Saturday August 29, 2020 @08:59PM (#24320501)
For emoji-capable terminals, games & simulations like that of (other-front-page-story) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24317034 seem promising with this!
Re:Asciimatics – create full-screen text UIs on any platform by ngcc_hk on Saturday August 29, 2020 @06:20PM (#24319821)
Need a game demo like solitaire.
Re:Asciimatics – create full-screen text UIs on any platform by xellisx on Saturday August 29, 2020 @10:27PM (#24320869)
I tried to do this with nurses and nodejs many years ago, but the library did allow it to output to a telnet session, so I gave up.
Re:Asciimatics – create full-screen text UIs on any platform by Sembiance on Saturday August 29, 2020 @10:42PM (#24320947)
gopher://worldofsolitaire.com
Re:Asciimatics – create full-screen text UIs on any platform by S-E-P on Friday August 28, 2020 @01:16AM (#24301573)
I'm having ncurses flashbacks hardcore right about now. Great work :)
Re:Asciimatics – create full-screen text UIs on any platform by eggy on Sunday August 30, 2020 @08:00AM (#24322777)
Are there any non-Python TUIs?