ASCIIMATICS

Agenda:

• Introduction.
• Features.
• Installation.
• How to use it.

Asciimatics is a package to help people create full-screen text UIs on any platform.

• Coloured/styled text - including 256 colour terminals.
• Cursor positioning.
• Keyboard input.
• Mouse input.
• Detecting and handling when the console resizes.
• Screen Scraping.

Installation

To install asciimatics, simply install with pip as follows:

$ pip install asciimatics

How to use it?

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)

Documentation:

More examples:

Contributing to the project:

http://asciimatics.readthedocs.org/

https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics/tree/v1.9/samples