author | Radek Brich <radek.brich@devl.cz> |
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Tuikit driver is the lowest part of the kit - it actually draws characters on screen, |
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receives user events and forwards them to widgets. |
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Any dirty details of actual graphical toolkit should be hidden by this driver. |
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Though it's not hardware driver, nowhere near that. Tuikit driver is expected to use |
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pretty high-level libraries, it's low-level only in Tuikit perpective. |
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Currently there are three drivers: Dummy, Curses, SDL |
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Dummy driver |
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This driver shows and documents complete interface required from any driver. |
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It does not draw anything and immediately emits keypress event for 'q' char and 'escape' key, |
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which should exit application. |
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All methods of dummy driver just report they where being called - into log file. |
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Curses driver |
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Default driver for Text User Interface in any terminal supporting required features. |
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Uses curses module from Python. |
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SDL driver |
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Creates graphical window and draws characters here. This has less limits than curses, |
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we can use any colors, fonts and possibly even draw images. |
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Though by default, it just emulates terminal with curses. |
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SDL application is more portable than curses one, which means that Tuikit application |
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using SDL driver may work in non-unix OS like Windows (does not currently, |
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due to unconditional use of fontconfig). |
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SDL driver requires sdlterm module for Python, which must be compiled from C++. |
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See sdlterm directory in Tuikit distribution. |
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