Image::Base::Text -- draw in a plain text file or grid

 use Image::Base::Text;
 my $image = Image::Base::Text->new (-width  => 70,
                                     -height => 20);
 $image->rectangle (5,5, 65,15, '*');
 $image->save ('/some/filename.txt');

Image::Base::Text is a subclass of Image::Base,

    Image::Base
      Image::Base::Text

Image::Base::Text extends Image::Base to create or update text files treated as grids of characters, or just to create a grid of characters in memory.

Colours for drawing can be a single character to set in the image, or there's an experimental -colour_to_character attribute to map names to characters. Currently black, #000000, #000000000000 and clear all become spaces and anything else becomes a "*". Perhaps that will change.

Perl wide characters can be used, in new enough Perl, though currently there's nothing to set input or output encoding for file read/write (making it fairly useless, unless perhaps you've got global PerlIO layers setup).

$image = Image::Base::Text->new (key=>value,...)

Create and return an image object. A image can be started with -width and -height,

    $image = Image::Base::Text->new (-width  => 70,
                                     -height => 20);

Or an existing file can be read,

    $image = Image::Base::Text->new (-file => '/my/filename.txt');

$new_image = $image->new (key=>value,...)

Create and return a cloned copy of $image. The optional parameters are applied to the new image as per set.

$image->load ()

$image->load ($filename)

Read a text file into $image, either from the current -file option, or set that option to $filename and read from there.

Tab characters in the file are expanded to spaces per Text::Tabs. Its $Text::Tabs::tabstop controls the width of each tab.

-height is set to the number of lines in the file, possibly zero. -width is set to the widest line in the file and other lines are padded with spaces to that width as necessary.

$image->save ()

$image->save ($filename)

Save the image to a text file, either the current -file option, or set that option to $filename and save to there.

Trailing spaces are included in the output so that the width is represented in the file, and to keep it a rectangular grid. Tabs are not used in the output.

-width (integer)

-height (integer)

Setting these resizes an image, either truncating or extending. When extending the new area is initialized to space characters.

Image::Base, Text::Tabs, Image::Xpm

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Image-Base-Other is Copyright 2010, 2011 Kevin Ryde

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