Subj : Re: New terminal program
To   : NuSkooler
From : Omnibrain
Date : Sun Nov 20 2022 21:18:10

 Nu> Sweet, I'll try to snag the source soon and start peeking. I gave the
 Nu> latest version a run last night and noted some unsupported ESC
 Nu> sequences, so maybe that's a good spot for me to look initially.

There are some missing - for example ansi music completely. I haven't looked into ways playing midi music x-platform yet.
The problem with ESC sequences is that there is not really a standard anywhere and there are some junk sequences out there.

I mostly use:
https://vt100.net/docs/vt510-rm/chapter4.html
https://invisible-island.net/xterm/ctlseqs/ctlseqs.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code

for a reference. 

 Nu> What sort of UI are you after?

Initially I wanted to create an ansi drawing tool. The terminal is just a test project :-) - and the engine was made for a drawing tool.

So I need a feature rich control set. I need a high performance custom control drawing way - iced is too slow. And on the drawing grid I need more features than what iced offers - for example I can't mix drawings and images - need to hack the lib for that.

ATM I try to get something done in egui - that allows me to make controls that use shaders directly. That would be awesome. And it has way more controls - let's say they have a context menu - iced doesn't.

Iced isn't bad but just doesn't offer enough to realize a real application. I've already used EGUI - downside there is that the UI code can become quite messy at some point. 

A plus for an UI lib would be that it runs in the browser, mobile etc. minimum is cross platform.
I started the ansi drawing tool ~1y ago and used gtk4 bindings - looked awesome but it wasn't really cross platform so I stopped. 

Unfortunately there isn't the #1 goto lib for rust yet - I explored druid/egui and iced for my needs and still can't really decide. As said atm I explore egui and try to get something done with fragment shaders. But I've 0 xp with that so it'll take a while.
And that doesn't mean I stop developing the terminal or the backend. Still some things to do.

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