Term::Caca - perl interface for libcaca (Colour AsCii Art library)
version 3.1.0
use Term::Caca; my $caca = Term::Caca->new; $caca->text( [5, 5], "pwn3d"); $caca->refresh; sleep 3;
Term::Caca is an API for the ASCII drawing library libcaca.
Term::Caca
This version of Term::Caca is compatible with the 1.x version of the libcaca library (development has been made against version 0.99.beta19 of the library).
See Term::Caca::Constants for exportable constants.
Returns an hash which keys are the available display drivers and the values their descriptions.
Returns the list of available drivers.
Instantiates a Term::Caca object.
The optional argument driver can be passed to select a specific display driver. If it's not given, the best available driver will be used.
Getter/setter for the window title.
The setter returns the invocant Term::Caca object.
Refreshes the display.
Returns the invocant Term::Caca object.
Sets the refresh delay in seconds. The refresh delay is used by refresh to achieve constant framerate.
refresh
If the time is zero, constant framerate is disabled. This is the default behaviour.
Returns the average rendering time, which is measured as the time between two refresh() calls in seconds. If constant framerate is enabled via set_refresh_delay(), the average rendering time will be close to the requested delay even if the real rendering time was shorter.
refresh()
set_refresh_delay()
Clears the canvas using the current background color.
Returns the invocant object.
Returns the width and height of the canvas, as an array ref.
Returns the canvas width.
Returns the canvas height.
Returns the position of the mouse as an array ref
This function is not reliable if the ncurses or S-Lang drivers are being used, because mouse position is only detected whe the mouse is clicked. Other drivers such as X11 work well.
Returns the canvas in the given format.
Supported formats are
If no format is provided, defaults to caca.
caca
Sets the foreground and background colors used by primitives, using colors as defined by the color constants.
$t->set_ansi_color( LIGHTRED, WHITE );
Sets the foreground and background colors used by primitives.
Each color is an array ref to a ARGB (transparency + RGB) set of values, all between 0 and 15. Alternatively, they can be given as a string of the direct hexadecimal value.
# red on white $t->set_color( [ 15, 15, 0, 0 ], 'ffff' );
Prints $text at the given coordinates.
Prints the character $char at the given coordinates. If $char is a string of more than one character, only the first character is printed.
The drawing of all primitive is controlled by drawing_options. Unless specified otherwise, the possible options are:
drawing_options
If no option is given, or if the option thin = 1> is given, the primitive will be drawn using ascii art.
thin =
If a single character or the char = $x> pair is given, then this character it will be used to trace the primitive.
char =
If fill = $y> is given, then that character will be used to fill the primitive.
fill =
fill and char or thin can be used in combination to produce a primitive drawn with one char and filled with the other.
fill
char
thin
Draws a line from @point_a to @point_b. In this instance @drawing_options only accept thin or char.
@drawing_options
Draws the polyline defined by @points, where each point is an array ref of the coordinates. E.g.
$t->polyline( [ [ 0,0 ], [ 10,15 ], [ 20, 15 ] ] );
The additional option close can be given as part of the drawing_options. If true, the end point of the polyline will be connected to the first point.
Draws a circle centered at @center with a radius of $radius.
Draws an ellipse centered at @center with an x-axis radius of $radius_x and a y-radius of $radius_y.
Draws a rectangle of dimensions $width and $height with its upper-left corner at @top_corner.
Draws a triangle defined by the three given points.
Waits and returns a Term::Caca::Event object matching the mask.
Term::Caca::Event
$timeout is in seconds. If set to 0 (the default), the method returns immediatly and, if no event was found, returns nothing. If $timeout is negative, the method waits forever for an event matching the mask.
$timeout
# wait for 5 seconds for a key press or the closing of the window my $event = $t->wait_for_event( KEY_PRESS | QUIT, 5 ); say "user is idle" unless defined $event; exit if $event->isa( 'Term::Caca::Event::Quit' ); say "user typed ", $event->char;
libcaca - https://github.com/cacalabs/libcaca and http://caca.zoy.org/
John Beppu <beppu@cpan.org>
Yanick Champoux <yanick@cpan.org>
This software is Copyright (c) 2019, 2018, 2013, 2011 by John Beppu.
This is free software, licensed under:
DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE, Version 2, December 2004
To install Term::Caca, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Term::Caca
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Term::Caca
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.