ASCII canvas is library that help position elements on the screen.

I can be used with Node.js or Browser to render ASCII Text. I can be used with other ASCII libraries like charts and position them on the screen.

Installation

npm install ascii-canvas

Usage

Node

const { Canvas, Item } = require('ascii-canvas');
// or
import { Canvas, Item } from 'ascii-canvas';

Browser

<script src="https://unpkg.com/ascii-canvas"></script>
<script>
const { Canvas, Item } = canvas;
</script>

Example

const ROWS = 24;
const COLS = 80;
const my_canvas = new Canvas(COLS, ROWS);

// see boxen on npm
const str = boxen('unicorn', { padding: 1 });

const x_start = 10;
const y_start = 5;

myCanvas.append(new Item(frame()));

for (var i = 0; i < 3; ++i) {
  const x = i * 10;
  const y = i * 3;
  const box = new Item(str, { x: x_start + x, y: y_start + y });
  my_canvas.append(box);
}

console.log(my_canvas.toString());

// functions to render box frame
function rep(str, count) {
    return new Array(count).fill(str).join('');
}

function frame() {
    const output = [];
    const x_count = COLS - 2;
    const y_Count = ROWS - 2;
    output.push(`+${rep('-', x_count)}+`);
    for (let i = 0; i < y_Count; ++i) {
        output.push(`|${rep(' ', x_count)}|`);
    }
    output.push(`+${rep('-', x_count)}+`);
    return output.join('\n');
}

Demo

Browser Demo. To see demo in Node.js you need to do those steps.

# clone repo
git clone https://github.com/jcubic/ascii-canvas.git
cd ascii-canvas
# install dev dependencies (including example ASCII libraries)
npm install
# run the code
node --experimental-modules ./demo/demo.js

API

• Canvas

class Canvas {
    constructor(width, height, { overflow: true || false });
    remove(item);
    resize(width, height);
    append(item);
    toString();
    get children;
}

• Item

class Item {
    constructor(string, {x, y, z});
    clone();
    remove();
    update(string)
    move({x,y,z});
    get width;
    get height;
    get x;
    get y;
    get z;
    get rect;
}

Changelog

0.3.0

• add Canvas::resize
• add read only Canvas::children
• add overflow option to Canvas
• fix negative y when rendering item
• add read only Item::rect/width/height
• rename Canvas::remove_child() to Canvas::remove()

0.2.0

• add Item::remove
• fix Item::clone

0.1.2

• throw exception when x or y outside of Canvas dimensions

0.1.1

• fix infinite loop when x or y is float

0.1.0

• Initial version

License

Copyright (C) 2020-2023 Jakub T. Jankiewicz [email protected] Released with MIT License