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NAME

Term::Colormap - Colormaps for ANSI 256 Color Terminals!

Build Status Coverage Status CPAN Version

VERSION

Version 0.11

SYNOPSIS

Provide colormaps and functions to simplify rendering colored text using ANSI 256 colors.

    use Term::Colormap qw( colormap colorbar print_colored );

    my $rainbow = colormap('rainbow');

    colorbar($rainbow);

    print_colored( $rainbow->[3], "orange" )';

EXPORT

    colorbar
    colormap
    color2rgb
    print_colored
    print_colored_text
    color_table
    add_mapping

SUBROUTINES/METHODS

colorbar

    Print a colorbar for a colormap.

    my $rainbow = colormap('rainbow');

    colorbar($rainbow);          # Prints horizontal colorbar,  2 characters wide per color
    colorbar($rainbow, 3);       # Prints horizontal colorbar,  3 characters wide per color
    colorbar($rainbow, 10, 'v'); # Prints   vertical colorbar, 10 characters wide per color

colormap

    A colormap is an ordered set of color values (0-255).

    Returns a colormap as an Array Reference.

    See AVAILABLE COLORMAPS for colormap names.

    my $rainbow = colormap('rainbow');

    my $ash = colormap('ash');

color2rgb

    Returns rgb value for a color value.

    my $rgb = color2rgb( 255 ); #eeeeee  Very Light Gray

rgb2color

    Returns color value for an rgb color

    my $color = rgb2color( 'eeeeee' ); 255  Very Light Gray
    Print text using a background color.

    my $rainbow = colormap('rainbow');

    print_colored( $rainbow->[3], "Text with orange background" );
    Print colored text.

    my $rainbow = colormap('rainbow');

    print_colored_text( $rainbow->[3], "Orange Text" );

color_table

    Print color table (color, number, rgb) for a colormap.

    my $rainbow = colormap('rainbow');

    color_table($rainbow);

add_mapping

    Add custom colormaps to the list of available colormaps.

    add_mapping('my_colors', [ 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 ])

    color_table('my_colors');

AVAILABLE COLORMAPS

    rainbow - 32 colors : Red -> Orange -> Yellow -> Green -> Cyan -> Blue -> Magenta

    primary -  8 colors : Black, Red, Green, Yellow, Blue, Magenta, Cyan, Off-White

    bright  -  8 colors : Gray, Bright Red, Bright Green, Bright Yellow,
                          Bright Blue, Bright Magenta, Bright Cyan, White

    ash     - 12 colors : Black -> Gray

    snow    - 12 colors : Gray  -> White

    gray    - 24 colors : Black -> Gray -> White


    blue-cyan-green        - 19 colors : Blue -> Cyan -> Green

    red-pink-yellow        - 16 colors : Red -> Pink -> Yellow

    green-orange-pink-blue - 16 colors : Green -> Orange -> Pink -> Blue

AUTHOR

Felix Tubiana, <felixtubiana at gmail.com>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-term-colormap at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Term-Colormap. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

    perldoc Term::Colormap

You can also look for information at:

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Inspired by Term::ANSIColor

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2014 Felix Tubiana.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the the Artistic License (2.0). You may obtain a copy of the full license at:

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