Curses vs Umfeld
another #weekendproject has been successfully completed: TERMINAL RENDERER
after i went deep into the Text-based User Interface (TUI) rabbit hole ( just saying: ncspot to replace Spotify and matterhorn to replace Mattermost ;) ), i thought it would be nice if Umfeld could also be text-based.
so if you ever get tired of the same old pixel-based graphics and want to render lines, images, text, etcetera right into a terminal window, as some sort of weird ASCII representation, just do this in your code:
void settings() {
PGraphicsTerminal::enable_graphics_subsystem();
}
this will replace the default OpenGL renderer with an ncurses-based renderer that draws everything as characters. it is still very raw, but it can already draw points, lines ( <- Bresenham ), text, and images. it can also process user input from keyboard and mouse ( to some extent ).
some quick tests on macOS terminal emulators have shown that it runs ok on:
Terminal.appkitty.appiTerm.app