impulsetracker vs textual

impulsetracker

Fork/clone of https://bitbucket.org/jthlim/impulsetracker // Full source code for Impulse Tracker, including sound drivers, network drivers, and some supporting documentation // IMPORTANT: This is neither the official repository (upstream at bitbucket.org appears deleted by now!) nor hosted or owned by Jeffrey Lim! (by herrnst)

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textual

The lean application framework for Python. Build sophisticated user interfaces with a simple Python API. Run your apps in the terminal and a web browser. (by Textualize)

GUI Terminal Python TUI Rich CLI Framework

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impulsetracker		textual
	Project
1	Mentions	149
107	Stars	23,543
-	Growth	1.2%
10.0	Activity	9.9
over 8 years ago	Latest Commit	4 days ago
Assembly	Language	Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	MIT License

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impulsetracker

Posts with mentions or reviews of impulsetracker. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-08.

Dos-like: Engine for making things with a MS-DOS feel, but for modern platforms
10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Oct 2021

textual

Posts with mentions or reviews of textual. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-05.

Harlequin: SQL IDE for Your Terminal
11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Jan 2024
Should you add screenshots to documentation?
8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Dec 2023

The Textual project has a lot of screenshots in its documentation. These screenshots are built with the docs, so they are always up to date.
https://textual.textualize.io/
PysimpleGUI
10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Dec 2023

Textual[0] does this for CLI apps. That’s not for full GUI apps, but it’s very DOM-like, uses CSS selectors, etc. and a cool option when it meets your needs.
[0] https://github.com/Textualize/textual
Using the Curses library on Windows - Terminal Display & Keys Input
1 project | /r/learnpython | 7 Dec 2023

For future projects that need a TUI beyond normal printing to a terminal, I'd recommend taking a look at Textual.
"<ESC>[31M"? ANSI Terminal security in 2023 and finding 10 CVEs
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Oct 2023
https://jupyterbook.org/en/stable/content/code-outputs.html#...
`less -R` is not the default.
FWIW, textual (and urwid) does ANSII escape codes well: https://github.com/Textualize/textual
```
  touch file$'\n'name
```
logmerger - Text UI to view multiple log files with unified time scale
2 projects | /r/Python | 19 Oct 2023

After installing logmerger, you can run a self-contained demo by running logmerger --demo, to view two log files before and after they are merged, and to play with the user-interface features provided by textual.
Ask HN: Why Did Python Win?
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Aug 2023

I think it just survived naturally, filling in the cracks left by Java / C++.
And not the era of Textual (https://textual.textualize.io/) is here, python may get the spotlight even more.
FLaNK Stack Weekly for 21 August 2023
18 projects | dev.to | 21 Aug 2023
Textual: Rapid Application Development Framework for Python
1 project | /r/hackernews | 20 Aug 2023

1 project | /r/hypeurls | 20 Aug 2023

What are some alternatives?

When comparing impulsetracker and textual you can also consider the following projects:

schismtracker - An oldschool sample-based music composition tool.

pytermgui - Python TUI framework with mouse support, modular widget system, customizable and rapid terminal markup language and more!

dos-like - Engine for making things with a MS-DOS feel, but for modern platforms

rich - Rich is a Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal.

vtm - Text-based desktop environment

python-prompt-toolkit - Library for building powerful interactive command line applications in Python

cool-retro-term - A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display...

urwid - Console user interface library for Python (official repo)

cursesjs - An implementation of ncurses for the web browser

asciimatics - A cross platform package to do curses-like operations, plus higher level APIs and widgets to create text UIs and ASCII art animations

jexer - Java Text User Interface. This library implements a text-based windowing system loosely reminiscent of Borland's Turbo Vision system

npyscreen - Automatically exported from code.google.com/p/npyscreen