# Termion Termion is a pure Rust, bindless library for low-level handling, manipulating and reading information about terminals. This provides a full-featured alternative to Termbox. Termion aims to be simple and yet expressive. It is bindless, meaning that it is not a front-end to some other library (e.g., ncurses or termbox), but a standalone library directly talking to the TTY. Termion is quite convinient, due to its complete coverage of essential TTY features, providing one consistent API. Termion is rather low-level containing only abstraction aligned with what actually happens behind the scenes, for something more high-level, refer to inquirer-rs, which uses Termion as backend. Termion generates escapes and API calls for the user. This makes it a whole lot cleaner to use escapes. Supports Redox, Mac OS X, BSD, and Linux (or, in general, ANSI terminals). [Documentation.](http://ticki.github.io/termion/) | [Examples.](https://github.com/Ticki/termion/tree/master/examples) | [Changelog.](https://github.com/Ticki/termion/tree/master/CHANGELOG.md) ## A note on stability Although small breaking changes might happen, I will try my best to avoid them, and this crate can generally be considered stable. ## Cargo.toml ```toml [dependencies] termion = "1.0.0" ``` ## 0.1.0 to 1.0.0 guide This sample table gives an idea of how to go bu converting to the new major version of Termion. +------------------------------------------------------------ | 0.1.0 | 1.0.0 |--------------------------------|--------------------------- | `use termion::IntoRawMode` | `use termion::raw::IntoRawMode` | `stdout.color(color::Red);` | `write!(stdout, "{}", color::Fg(color::Red));` | `stdout.color_bg(color::Red);` | `write!(stdout, "{}", color::Bg(color::Red));` | `stdout.goto(x, y);` | `write!(stdout, "{}", cursor::Goto(x, y));` | `color::rgb(r, g, b);` | `color::Rgb(r, g, b)` (truecolor) | `x.with_mouse()` | `MouseTerminal::from(x)` ## Features - Raw mode. - TrueColor. - 256-color mode. - Cursor movement. - Color output. - Calculating ANSI escapes. - Text formatting. - Console size. - Control sequences. - Termios control. - Password input. - Redox support. - Safe `isatty` wrapper. - Panic-free error handling. - Special keys events (modifiers, special keys, etc.). - Allocation-free. - Asynchronous key events. - Mouse input - Carefully tested. and much more. ## Examples ### Style and colors. ```rust extern crate termion; use termion::{color, style}; use std::io; fn main() { println!("{}Red", color::Fg(color::Red)); println!("{}Blue", color::Fg(color::Blue)); println!("{}Blue'n'Bold{}", style::Bold, style::Reset); println!("{}Just plain italic", style::Italic); } ``` ### Moving the cursor ```rust extern crate termion; fn main() { print!("{}{}Stuff", termion::clear::All, termion::cursor::Goto(1, 1)); } ``` ### Mouse ```rust extern crate termion; use termion::event::{Key, Event, MouseEvent}; use termion::input::{TermRead, MouseTerminal}; use termion::raw::IntoRawMode; use std::io::{Write, stdout, stdin}; fn main() { let stdin = stdin(); let mut stdout = MouseTerminal::from(stdout().into_raw_mode().unwrap()); write!(stdout, "{}{}q to exit. Click, click, click!", termion::clear::All, termion::cursor::Goto(1, 1)).unwrap(); stdout.flush().unwrap(); for c in stdin.events() { let evt = c.unwrap(); match evt { Event::Key(Key::Char('q')) => break, Event::Mouse(me) => { match me { MouseEvent::Press(_, x, y) => { write!(stdout, "{}x", termion::cursor::Goto(x, y)).unwrap(); }, _ => (), } } _ => {} } stdout.flush().unwrap(); } } ``` ### Read a password ```rust extern crate termion; use termion::input::TermRead; use std::io::{Write, stdout, stdin}; fn main() { let stdout = stdout(); let mut stdout = stdout.lock(); let stdin = stdin(); let mut stdin = stdin.lock(); stdout.write(b"password: ").unwrap(); stdout.flush().unwrap(); let pass = stdin.read_passwd(&mut stdout); if let Ok(Some(pass)) = pass { stdout.write(pass.as_bytes()).unwrap(); stdout.write(b"\n").unwrap(); } else { stdout.write(b"Error\n").unwrap(); } } ``` ## Usage See `examples/`, and the documentation, which can be rendered using `cargo doc`. For a more complete example, see [a minesweeper implementation](https://github.com/redox-os/games-for-redox/blob/master/src/minesweeper/main.rs), that I made for Redox using termion. ## License MIT/X11.