Asciimatics is a package to help people create full-screen text UIs (from interactive forms to ASCII animations) on any platform.
Asciimatics supports Python versions 2 and 3.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Coloured/styled text – including 256 colour terminals and Unicode characters (even CJK languages).
- Cursor positioning.
- Keyboard input (without blocking or echoing) including Unicode support.
- Mouse input (terminal permitting).
- Detecting and handling when the console resizes.
- Screen scraping.
- Offers 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.
- Cross-platform support – runs under Linux, OS X, Windows, Raspberry Pi, and more.
Website: github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics
Support: Documentation
Developer: Peter Brittain
License: Apache License 2.0
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