scrolltext 0.0.8

A little toy for scrolling text.

python-scrolltext

Plain Terminal version

SCROLL_TEXT="Hello, world." scrolltext

You can select the line via SCROLL_LINE variable. Negative values are counting from bottom to top, e.g. the following selects the 2nd last line in the current terminal:

SCROLL_TEXT="Hello, world." SCROLL_LINE=-2 scrolltext

Curses Version

SCROLL_TEXT="Hello, world." scrolltext cursestext

In addition to SCROLL_TEXT and SCROLL_LINE variables, the submodule cursestext understands the variables VERBOSE and SCROLL_BOX.

Setting VERBOSE=1 will create a logfile: 'cursesscroller.log' in the current directory.

Here is an example:

SCROLL_BOX=1 SCROLL_LINE=-1 VERBOSE=1 scrolltext cursestext

The box is enabled by default.

In order to not draw the box, you can switch it off by defining the variable SCROLL_TEXT with an empty value or 0, e.g. use

SCROLL_BOX= SCROLL_LINE=-1 scrolltext cursestext

or

SCROLL_BOX=0 SCROLL_LINE=-1 scrolltext cursestext

Scroll right-to-left reading text

Using SCROLL_DIRECTION=1 makes the text start scrolling from left-side of the terminal. This is used for right-to-left writing languages.

Using a different scrolling speed

The scrolling speed can be altered by setting the environment variable SCROLL_SPEED There are 10 different speeds available. These can be selected by choosing a number between 0 and 9.

Slow scrolling speed (default, if not set)

SCROLL_SPEED=0 scrolltext

Fastest scrolling speed.

SCROLL_SPEED=10 scrolltext

Bugs and quirks

• does not detect term-resize
• no colors

Changes

v0.0.8

• doc-comments have never been generated, nor are those validated. (TODO)
• renamed log-file to "scrolltext.log"
• uses config file "scrolltextrc" *NIX uses "~/.config/scrolltextrc", windows uses "scrolltextrc" in current directory