bearlibterminal 0.14.1

BearLibTerminal is a pseudoterminal window library

Contents

• About

• Installation

• Requirements

• License

About

BearLibTerminal is a library that creates a terminal-like window facilitating flexible textual output and uncomplicated input processing.

A lot of roguelike games intentionally use asketic textual or pseudographic visual style. However, native output via the command line interface ususally have a few annoying shortcomings like low speed or palette and font restrictions. Using an extended character set (several languages at once or complicated pseudographics) may also be tricky. BearLibTerminal solves that by providing it’s own window with a grid of character cells and simple yet powerful API for configuration and textual output.

Online documentation: http://foo.wyrd.name/en:bearlibterminal:reference

Source code and issue tracker: https://bitbucket.org/cfyzium/bearlibterminal

Discussion forum: http://forums.roguetemple.com/index.php?topic=3896.0

Installation

Use pip:

pip install bearlibterminal

This will install everything necessary to use BearLibTerminal from Python, both the wrapper and the library binary:

from bearlibterminal import terminal
terminal.open()
terminal.printf(2, 1, "Hello, world!")
while True:
      terminal.refresh()
      if terminal.read() == terminal.TK_CLOSE:
              break
terminal.close()

Requirements

Python 2.7+ or 3.x

License

BearLibTerminal is distributed under the MIT license.