Term::Visual is a "visual" terminal interface for curses
applications. It provides the split-screen interface you may have
seen in console based IRC and MUD clients.
Term::Visual's interface includes four regions. From top to bottom:
A title bar. Term::Visual supports many terminals, each with its
own screen elements, and the title bar is a convenient way to
remember which is currently active.
A large scrolling terminal region. In network clients, this is
where remote output is shown. Many features are supported, the most
notable are colorized text and scrollback.
A one- or two-line configurable status bar. Just about anything can
be placed here, including the current time, and statistics about the
runtime operation of whatever program you write with it.
A one-line entry bar, with many common editing keystrokes
supported. It scrolls horizontally to allow more than just a
screen's width of text.
Term::Visual uses the POE networking and multitasking framework to support
concurrent input from network sockets and the console, multiple
timers, and more.
Term::Visual is a "visual" terminal because it is display rather than line
oriented. It takes up the full screen, provides scrollback features,
and allows you to edit input in what is essentially a one-line text
editor. Similar features make vi the "visual" text editor, and are
elements of TinyFugue's "visual" mode.
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http://www.egr.msu.edu/decs/facilities/software/vi.php#Whatis
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http://www.muq.org/~hawkeye/tf/help/topics/mode.html
The tarball currently has no tests, but there are sample programs in
the examples directory.
Term::Visual installs the usual way:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make install
The project is managed at SourceForge. Various support resources are
available there. Please see
http://sourceforge.net/projects/visterm/
for more information.
-- Charles Ayres -
[email protected]
-- Rocco Caputo -
[email protected] -
http://poe.perl.org/
