asciimatics VS FINAL CUT

For small apps, I may choose a TUI (Terminal User Interface). Curses for Python is very lightweight, but quite low level and difficult to use for anything more than a very simple interface (if your app tries to draw outside of the drawing area, the app crashes, so you have to carefully manage every detail). Textual and asciimatics are both mature TUI frameworks that provide a higher level and more Pythonic way to create TUI's.

If you are looking for something more flexible that just printing to a terminal, take a look at Asciimatics and textual. Both are available from Pypi.

Scroll down to the TUI example in the README, just above the documentation link: https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics

Download fireworks.py

Source code: https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics/blob/master/samples/fireworks.py

I have made yet another ssh connection manager with TUI, using asciimatics and tinyDB.

Personally I dig the aesthetics of asciimatics, it's quite handy and cross-platform.

I've used asciimatics in the past to good effect.

Take a look at rich (kinda new, but pretty neat), asciimatics, or urwid

PSA: Not Apple's Final Cut, but rather this:

https://github.com/gansm/finalcut

Visit the GitHub repository to get the latest version.

Maybe FINAL CUT is something for you. It has its own widgets and can be controlled with the mouse or keyboard.

The reason for my posting is not the XPM viewer. The primary reason was the data processing class, which allows you to display logos or other simple graphics in your programs.

I implemented for FINAL CUT a simple data processing class and an image viewer for X PixMap (XPM) images. It allows displaying XPM icons in the terminal. Maybe someone will find it helpful.

If you want to write in C++, you can have a look at my small TUI framework FINAL CUT.