Subj : Sixel Gallery
To : All
From : Codefenix
Date : Mon Jun 20 2022 09:54 pm
I spent the last couple days putting together a sixel image browser in
Javascript. It lists a menu of directories containing image files. When the user selects one, it calls Imagemagick to convert the selected image to sixel format, and then displays the resulting sixel to the user. Imagemagick
conversion is pretty quick, depending on the size and complexity of the image
being converted.
The mod requires SyncTERM. If a user runs it in a terminal other than SyncTERM,
it offers a polite error message and quits.
For now I have it set up on my board to browse through stuff like the GIFs
Galore CD and the Earth Science pictures of the day from fsxNet. So now users
needn't necessarily download files from the board in order to view them.
I expect I'll spend more time giving it some more polish, but it's available in
my doors menu if anyone wants to come try it out.
