FINAL CUT VS jexer

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

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

Very interesting! I was thinking literally yesterday about a TUI/GUI Qubes type concept, maybe also applicable for industrial type data diodes.

If you code in Java, and like TUI (console type applications), then you might enjoy Jexer: https://gitlab.com/klamonte/jexer

I started Jexer in 2013, and off-and-on it's gotten better. I think my favorite part has been crossing paths with other terminal emulator ecosystem folks over the last few years. This release brings a few prettified effects inspired by other projects that you are all hopefully quite familiar with (notcurses, chafa, and vtm):

* Translucent windows, including images under/over each other and text.

* Animated/pulsing text

* Animated gifs

* A new XtermVideoPlayer example that uses ffmpeg/JavaCV to play movies inside a text-draggable window. (No audio though.)

* New button styles: round, diamond, left/right arrows. The button ends and shadows are drawn with images so specific font support is not required.

* A _much_ faster and _much_ higher quality sixel encoder.

* Different window border styles: single, double, none, and rounded corners.

* A femme theme option.

Some screenshots are posted here: https://twitter.com/AutumnMeowMeow/status/148922891703050240...

It's on maven and Sourceforge.

A path that started in the BBS era and is currently bringing DOOM to Xterm. And ironically, there is much better support for this now than there ever was for RIPscript.

I am working on making DOOM run inside sixel-supporting terminals. The data load is actually small, only 70-300 kbytes/sec. You don't need a GPU at all on the terminal end just for pixels.

Story time: when I first posted Jexer to Reddit, people were all "twin does that". No, it does not. twin does not pass vttest. twin has almost no widgets. twin does not support images at all, it does not multiplex images, it does not multihead images, and it does not play videos (a bit too slowly but still) in a text draggable/resizable window that could be part of a larger system. mpv/mplayer doesn't do those things either. In fact, the only two projects I know of that can do these kinds of tricks are Jexer and notcurses. (And notcurses is hella faster and great, and I would have used it in 2013 when I started Jexer, but it didn't exist then.)

One way to do translucent windows. - Inspired by notcurses

foot is great, dnkl is great. It's so far the fastest sixel-supporting terminal I've got to test XtermDOOM on. (I run iTerm2-based images against wezterm.)

It parses them, but then reduces to the 8/16 ANSI colors. Which makes translucent TUI windows not work. :(

Jexer has almost no userbase, but is a full-fledged windowing system with advanced support for images and multiplexed terminals. Java. You might find the history doc interesting, it has quite a few links to other projects and standards. (Disclaimer: I wrote Jexer.)