ANN: asciimatics v1.7.0

2016-09-24 Thread Peter Brittain
I am very pleased to announce asciimatics v1.7.0! This is a major update since the last announced version of the package. ## What is asciimatics? Asciimatics is a package to help people create full-screen text UIs (from interactive forms to complex text animations) on Linux, Windows and OSX.

Re: Python TUI that will work on DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux

2016-04-24 Thread Peter Brittain
I noticed this trail on Google... if you're still interested, you could try out https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics I ported it to Windows from Linux so exactly the same API works on both. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

A high-level cross-platform API for terminal/console access

2015-10-21 Thread Peter Brittain
I have recently been working on a terminal/console animation package (https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics). Beyond the high-level animation methods/objects it provides, it also needed to be cross-platform and and simple to install with pip (including any dependencies). This cross-platf

Re: A high-level cross-platform API for terminal/console access

2015-10-21 Thread Peter Brittain
> > Did you try https://pypi.python.org/pypi/UniCurses ? > Yes - it failed to install with pip and also looked like a dead project when I followed the project home page URL. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: A high-level cross-platform API for terminal/console access

2015-10-22 Thread Peter Brittain
On Wednesday, October 21, 2015 at 11:26:40 PM UTC+1, eryksun wrote: > > Also check out the curses module that's available on Christoph Gohlke's site: > > http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#curses Neat. I wasn't aware of this library of wheel installations. I'll have a look at how

Re: A high-level cross-platform API for terminal/console access

2015-10-22 Thread Peter Brittain
On Thursday, October 22, 2015 at 10:24:11 AM UTC+1, Laura Creighton wrote: > Fredrik Lundh's console implementation > http://effbot.org/zone/console-handbook.htm > might be of interest in that case, but I think it is 'old versions > of windows only'. But it's a different take on the abstraction >

Re: A high-level cross-platform API for terminal/console access

2015-10-22 Thread Peter Brittain
On Thursday, October 22, 2015 at 12:25:09 PM UTC+1, Gisle Vanem wrote: > I tried installing your package with "pip.exe -v install asciimatics". > Some problem with pypiwin32 it seems: > > Installing collected packages: pypiwin32, future, Pillow, pyfiglet, > asciimatics > > Cleaning up... > E