reflex-vty
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| reflex-vty | rosshow | |
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| 137 | 1,019 | |
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| 7.8 | 0.0 | |
| about 2 months ago | over 2 years ago | |
| Haskell | Python | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
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reflex-vty
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Building Rich Terminal Dashboards
There's a slick little Haskell library that does something similar called reflex-vty:
https://github.com/reflex-frp/reflex-vty#reflex-vty
One thing neither of these libraries appear to have done yet that I would really like is create a more compact window rendering. Currently each window gets a 1-character border. What I would like is something that saves space by collapsing adjacent windows' borders into a single character instead of having two redundant borders next to each other. Of course I get why they do it the way they do, but terminals are often more constrained for space and with complex UIs you can lose a fair amount due to these unnecessary borders. That would be the next thing I'd hack on to improve these kinds of libraries. But alas...too many fun projects to hack on and not enough hours in the day.
rosshow
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Introducing ROSboard: Visualizations in the web browser
I’m the author of ROSshow (GitHub - dheera/rosshow: Visualize ROS topics inside a terminal with Unicode/ASCII art 3), which lets you visualize ROS topics with ASCII art.
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Telnet Mapscii.me
I do something very similar in ROSshow for NavSatFix (GPS) messages: https://github.com/dheera/rosshow
https://github.com/dheera/rosshow/raw/master/screenshot3.png...
It also has a pure ASCII mode:
https://github.com/dheera/rosshow/raw/master/screenshot3-asc...
Unfortunately this utility isn't really usable outside of the context of robotics and ROS but one could extract the map rendering functionality and create a separate utility out if it if they wished.
The main difference in approach between this and Mapscii is that I actually just convert raster map tiles from OSM instead of using the vector data.
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Building Rich Terminal Dashboards
I built a visualization tool for ROS topics that uses Braille to achieve a dot-based interface in the terminal:
https://github.com/dheera/rosshow
I imagine a lot of it could also be re-used in creating terminal dashboards for other purposes.
What are some alternatives?
blessed-contrib - Build terminal dashboards using ascii/ansi art and javascript
rosboard - ROS node that turns your robot into a web server to visualize ROS topics
turbo - An experimental text editor based on Scintilla and Turbo Vision.
python-prompt-toolkit - Library for building powerful interactive command line applications in Python
dashing - Terminal dashboards for Python
mapscii - 🗺 MapSCII is a Braille & ASCII world map renderer for your console - enter => telnet mapscii.me <= on Mac (brew install telnet) and Linux, connect with PuTTY on Windows
notcurses - blingful character graphics/TUI library. definitely not curses.
blessed - A high-level terminal interface library for node.js.
vty-ui - A terminal user interface programming library similar to graphical interfaces such as GTK and QT. (DEPRECATED, see https://github.com/jtdaugherty/brick)
GoAccess - GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems or through your browser.