Term::ScreenColor - Term::Screen based screen positioning and coloring module


Term-ScreenColor documentation Contained in the Term-ScreenColor distribution.

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NAME

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Term::ScreenColor - Term::Screen based screen positioning and coloring module

SYNOPSIS

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A Term::Screen based screen positioning module with ANSI color support.

   use Term::ScreenColor;

   $scr = new Term::ScreenColor;
   $scr->colorizable(1);
   $scr->at(2,0)->red()->on_yellow()->puts("Hello, Tau Ceti!");
   $scr->putcolored('cyan bold on blue', 'Betelgeuse');
   $scr->putcolored('36;1;44', 'Altair');

DESCRIPTION

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Term::ScreenColor adds ANSI coloring support, along with a few other useful methods, to those provided in Term::Screen.

PUBLIC INTERFACE

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Most methods return the Term::ScreenColor object so you can string things together, e.g.

    $scr->at(2,3)->cyan()->on_white()->puts("hello");

In addition to the methods described in Term::Screen(3pm), Term::ScreenColor offers the following methods:

new()

Creates a new Term::ScreenColor object. Note that the constructor of the inherited class Term::Screen homes the cursor and switches the terminal to raw input mode.

colorizable()
colorizable($boolean)

Returns (if called with no arguments) or sets (if called with one boolean argument) whether the terminal is believed to support ANSI color codes. If this is set to false, no ANSI codes will be printed or generated. This provides an easy way for turning color on/off.

Note that the constructor above takes an initial guess at whether the terminal supports color (based on the value of the TERM environment variable).

black()
red()
on_white()
on_cyan()
inverse()

etc.

Prints an ANSI escape sequence for a specific color.

The color names understood are:

     ANSI color names:
    -----------------------------------
      0  clear
      0  reset
      1  ansibold     22  noansibold
      3  italic       23  noitalic
      4  underscore   24  nounderscore
      5  blink        25  noblink
      7  inverse      27  noinverse
      8  concealed    28  noconcealed
    -----------------------------------
     30  black        40  on_black
     31  red          41  on_red
     32  green        42  on_green
     33  yellow       43  on_yellow
     34  blue         44  on_blue
     35  magenta      45  on_magenta
     36  cyan         46  on_cyan
     37  white        47  on_white
    ------------------------------------

Additionally, the following names are understood (inherited from Term::Screen):

     termcap names:
    ---------------
     normal
     bold
     underline
     reverse
    ---------------

These termcap names send termcap-based escapes, which are not considered 'colors' and can therefore not be turned off by colorizable().

As of version 1.12, underline() is termcap-based instead of ANSI-based.

color2esc($colorstring)

Creates a string containing the escape codes corresponding to the color names or numbers given.

If the terminal is considered to be colorizable, This method will translate any termcap-names to their ANSI equivalents. This algorithm was chosen to improve performance.

Examples:

    $scr->colorizable(1);
    $scr->color2esc('bold yellow');   # returns "\e[1;33m"
    $scr->color2esc('blue reverse');  # returns "\e[34;7m"
    $scr->color2esc('yellow on red'); # returns "\e[33;41m"
    $scr->color2esc('37;42');         # returns "\e[37;42m"

If the terminal is not colorizable, the ANSI names are discarded and only the termcap-names are respected. They will send the escape sequences as defined in the termcap database.

Examples:

    $scr->colorizable(0);
    $scr->color2esc('bold yellow');
    # returns 'md' from termcap, probably "\e[1m"
    $scr->color2esc('blue reverse');
    # returns 'mr' from termcap, probably "\e[7m"
    $scr->color2esc('yellow on red');
    # returns ""

color($colorstring)

(Deprecated). Identical to putcolor($colorstring).

putcolor($colorstring)

Prints the escape sequence corresponding to this color string, in other words: the escape sequence that color2esc() generates.

colored($colorstring, @strings)

Returns a string containing a concatenation of the string parts, wrapped in ANSI color sequences, using the first argument as color specification.

Example:

   # the next two lines return "\e[36;1;44mSirius\e[0m"
   $scr->colored('cyan bold on blue', 'Sirius');
   $scr->colored('36;1;44', 'Sirius');

putcolored($colorstring, @strings)

Identical to puts(), but wraps its arguments in ANSI color sequences first, using the first argument as color specification.

Example:

   # the next two lines print "\e[32;40mSirius\e[0m"
   $scr->colored('green on black', 'Sirius');
   $scr->colored('32;40', 'Sirius');

FIXES TO Term::Screen

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As of version 1.11, Term::ScreenColor is bundled with some bugfixes, enhancements and convenience functions that should have gone in Term::Screen. They are therefore contained in a separate package Term::Screen::Fixes.

PUBLIC INTERFACE

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Term::Screen::Fixes offers the following methods:

new()

Creates a new object. Initializes a timeout property, used for keys that generate escape sequences.

timeout()
timeout($float)

Returns (if called with no arguments) or sets (if called with one float argument) the function key timeout.

getch()

This duplicates the functionality of Term::Screen::getch(), but makes the following improvements:

  • getc() was replaced by sysread(). Since getc() does internal buffering, it does not work well with select(). This led in certain cases to the application not receiving input as soon as it was available.
  • If the received character(s) started off as a possible function key escape sequence, but turn out not to be one after all, then the keys are put back in the input buffer in the correct order. (Term::Screen::getch() put them back at the wrong end of the buffer).
  • If the first received character(s) are part of a possible function key escape sequence, it will wait the timeout number of seconds for a next character. This eliminates the need to press escape twice.

normal()

Sends the escape sequence to turn off any highlightling (bold, reverse).

bold()

Sends the md value from termcap, which usually turns on bold.

reverse()

Sends the mr value from termcap, which often turns on reverse text.

underline()

Turns on underline using the us value from termcap.

flash()

Sends the visual bell escape sequence to the terminal.

normal2esc()
bold2esc()
reverse2esc()
underline2esc()
flash2esc()

Return the termcap definitions for normal, bold, reverse, underline and visual bell.

It was attested that on OpenSolaris 11, Term::Cap cannot provide the properties normal, bold, and reverse because there is no termcap and infocmp -C does not provide these properties (even though infocmp does). In that case, fall back on terminfo.

raw()

Sets raw input mode using stty(1).

cooked()

Sets cooked input mode using stty(1).

flush_input()

Duplicates the functionality of Term::Screen::flush_input(), but replaces getc() with sysread().

get_more_fn_keys()

Adds more function key escape sequences.

AUTHOR

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Rene Uittenbogaard (ruittenb@users.sourceforge.net)

Term::ScreenColor was based on:

Term::Screen

Originally by Mark Kaehny (kaehny@execpc.com), now maintained by Jonathan Stowe (jns@gellyfish.co.uk).

Term::ANSIColor

By Russ Allbery (rra@cs.stanford.edu) and Zenin (zenin@best.com).

SEE ALSO

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Term::Screen(3pm), Term::Cap(3pm), termcap(5), stty(1)


Term-ScreenColor documentation Contained in the Term-ScreenColor distribution.
#!/usr/bin/env perl
#
##########################################################################
#
# Name:         Term::ScreenColor
# Version:      1.20
# Author:       Rene Uittenbogaard
# Date:         2010-10-04
# Usage:        require Term::ScreenColor;
# Requires:     Term::Screen
# Description:  Screen positioning and output coloring module
#
# Copyright:    (c) 1999-2010 Rene Uittenbogaard. All Rights Reserved.
#               This module is free software; you can redistribute it
#               and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

##########################################################################
# Term::ScreenColor

package Term::ScreenColor;

use strict;

our @ISA     = qw(Term::Screen::Fixes);
our $VERSION = '1.20';
our $AUTOLOAD;

our %ANSI_ATTRIBUTES = (
  'clear'      => 0,
  'reset'      => 0,
  'ansibold'   => 1,   'noansibold'   => 22,  # 1=on, 22=off
  'italic'     => 3,   'noitalic'     => 23,  # not widely supported
  'underscore' => 4,   'nounderscore' => 24,
  'blink'      => 5,   'noblink'      => 25,
  'inverse'    => 7,   'noinverse'    => 27,
  'concealed'  => 8,   'noconcealed'  => 28,

  'black'      => 30,  'on_black'     => 40,  # also 'on black' etc.
  'red'        => 31,  'on_red'       => 41,
  'green'      => 32,  'on_green'     => 42,
  'yellow'     => 33,  'on_yellow'    => 43,
  'blue'       => 34,  'on_blue'      => 44,
  'magenta'    => 35,  'on_magenta'   => 45,
  'cyan'       => 36,  'on_cyan'      => 46,
  'white'      => 37,  'on_white'     => 47,
);

##########################################################################
# start of manpage

sub new {
    my ($this) = @_;
    my $classname = ref($this) || $this;
    my $ob = Term::ScreenColor->SUPER::new();
    # Set colorizability based on terminal names which
    # we guess support color (ugly solution, fix this)
    $ob->{_is_colorizable} = $ENV{'TERM'} =~ /(^linux$|color|ansi)/i;
    bless $ob, $classname;
    # Find all attributes: termcap
    my %TERMCAP_ATTRIBUTES = (
        normal    => $ob->normal2esc(),
        bold      => $ob->bold2esc(),
        underline => $ob->underline2esc(),
       'reverse'  => $ob->reverse2esc(),
    );
    $ob->{_TERMCAP_ATTRIBUTES} = { %TERMCAP_ATTRIBUTES };
    # Find all attributes: ANSI by name and number
    $ob->{_ANSI_ATTRIBUTES}    = { %ANSI_ATTRIBUTES };
    @{
        $ob->{_ANSI_ATTRIBUTES}
    }{
        values %ANSI_ATTRIBUTES
    } = (
        values %ANSI_ATTRIBUTES
    );
    # replace termcap colors by ANSI equivalents
    # this is WAY faster than using termcap values when colorizable is on.
    @{
        $ob->{_ANSI_ATTRIBUTES}
    }{
        qw(normal bold underline reverse)
    } = @ANSI_ATTRIBUTES{qw(reset ansibold underscore inverse)};
    # Return the new object
    return $ob;
}

sub colorizable {
    my ($this, $request) = (@_);
    if (defined($request)) {
        $this->{_is_colorizable} = $request;
        return $this;
    } else {
        return $this->{_is_colorizable};
    }
}

sub AUTOLOAD {
    my ($this) = @_;
    my $color = $AUTOLOAD;
    $color =~ s/.*:://;
    return if $color eq 'DESTROY';
    return $this->putcolor($color);
}

sub color2esc {
    # return color sequence
    my ($this, $color) = @_;
    return '' if $color eq '';
    if ($this->{_is_colorizable}) {
        return $this->_ansi2esc($color);
    } else {
        return $this->_termcap2esc($color);
    }
}

sub _ansi2esc {
    my ($this, $color) = @_;
    $color =~ s/on\s+/on_/go;
    # translation has been done in the constructor
    return "\e[" . join(
        ';',
        map { $this->{_ANSI_ATTRIBUTES}{$_} }
            split(/(?:\s+|;)/o, $color)
    ) . 'm';
}

sub _termcap2esc {
    # return color sequence
    my ($this, $color) = @_;
    my @elements =
        grep { defined }
            map { $this->{_TERMCAP_ATTRIBUTES}{$_} }
                split(/(?:\s+|;)/o, $color);
    return '' unless @elements;
    return join '', @elements;
}

sub color {
    # for backward compatibility
    goto &putcolor;
}

sub putcolor {
    # print color sequence
    my ($this, $color) = @_;
    print $this->color2esc($color);
    return $this;
}

sub colored {
    # return string wrapped in color sequence
    my ($this, $color, @args) = @_;
    return join('', @args) if $color eq '';
    my $initstring = $this->color2esc($color);
    return join('', @args) unless $initstring;
    return join('', $initstring, @args, "\e[0m");
}

sub putcolored {
    # print string wrapped in color sequence
    my ($this, $color, @args) = @_;
    print $this->colored($color, @args);
    return $this;
}

##########################################################################
# return true

1;

##########################################################################
# manpage transition

##########################################################################
# Term::Screen::Fixes

package Term::Screen::Fixes;

require Term::Screen;

use strict;

our @ISA = qw(Term::Screen);

sub new
{
    my ( $prototype, @args ) = @_;

    my $classname = ref($prototype) || $prototype;

    my $this = Term::Screen::Fixes->SUPER::new();
    bless $this, $prototype;
    $this->{FN_TIMEOUT} = 0.4;  # timeout for FN keys, in seconds
    $this->get_more_fn_keys();  # define function key table from defaults
    return $this;
}

sub timeout
{
    my ( $self, $timeout ) = @_;

    if ( defined $timeout )
    {
        $self->{FN_TIMEOUT} = $timeout;
    }

    return $self->{FN_TIMEOUT};
}

# Unfortunately, for our fixes and extensions, we need to
# duplicate the entire subroutine here.

sub getch
{
    my $this = shift;
    my ( $c, $nc, $fn_flag) = ('', '', 0);
    my $partial_fn_str = '';

    if ( $this->{IN} ) { $c = chop( $this->{IN} ); }
    else { sysread( STDIN, $c, 1 ); }

    $partial_fn_str = $c;
    while ( exists( $this->{KEYS}{$partial_fn_str} ) )
    {    # in a possible function key sequence
        $fn_flag = 1;
        if ( $this->{KEYS}{$partial_fn_str} )    # key found
        {
            $c              = $this->{KEYS}{$partial_fn_str};
            $partial_fn_str = '';
            last;
        }
        else    # wait for another key to see if were in FN yet
        {
            if ( $this->{IN} ) { $partial_fn_str .= chop( $this->{IN} ); }
            elsif ( !$this->key_pressed(0) && !$this->key_pressed( $this->{FN_TIMEOUT} ) )
            {
                last;
            }
            else
            {
                sysread(STDIN, $nc, 1);
                $partial_fn_str .= $nc;
            }
        }
    }
    if ($fn_flag)    # seemed like a fn key
    {
        if ($partial_fn_str)    # oops not a fn key
        {
            # buffer up the received chars
            $this->{IN} = $this->{IN} . CORE::reverse($partial_fn_str);
            $c = chop( $this->{IN} );
            $this->puts($c) if ( $this->{ECHO} && ( $c ne "\e" ) );
        }

        # if fn_key then never echo so do nothing here
    }
    elsif ( $this->{ECHO} && ( $c ne "\e" ) ) { $this->puts($c); } # regular key
    return $c;
}

sub normal
{
    my $this = shift;
    print $this->normal2esc();
    return $this;
}

sub bold
{
    my $this = shift;
    print $this->bold2esc();
    return $this;
}

sub reverse
{
    my $this = shift;
    print $this->reverse2esc();
    return $this;
}

sub underline
{
    my $this = shift;
    print $this->underline2esc();
    return $this;
}

sub flash {
    my $this = shift;
    print $this->flash2esc();
    return $this;
}

sub normal2esc
{
    my $this = shift;
    my $prop = $this->{'_me'};
    if (!defined $prop) {
        $prop = $this->term()->{'_me'};
        if (!defined $prop) {
            # fallback on terminfo
            eval { $prop = `tput sgr0` };
        }
    }
    # cache it
    $this->{'_me'} = $prop;
    return $prop;
}

sub bold2esc
{
    my $this = shift;
    my $prop = $this->{'_md'};
    if (!defined $prop) {
        $prop = $this->term()->{'_md'};
        if (!defined $prop) {
            # fallback on terminfo
            eval { $prop = `tput bold` };
        }
    }
    # cache it
    $this->{'_md'} = $prop;
    return $prop;
}

sub reverse2esc
{
    my $this = shift;
    my $prop = $this->{'_mr'};
    if (!defined $prop) {
        $prop = $this->term()->{'_mr'};
        if (!defined $prop) {
            # fallback on terminfo
            eval { $prop = `tput rev` };
        }
    }
    # cache it
    $this->{'_mr'} = $prop;
    return $prop;
}

sub underline2esc
{
    my $this = shift;
    my $prop = $this->{'_us'};
    if (!defined $prop) {
        $prop = $this->term()->{'_us'};
        if (!defined $prop) {
            # fallback on terminfo
            eval { $prop = `tput smul` };
        }
    }
    # cache it
    $this->{'_us'} = $prop;
    return $prop;
}

sub flash2esc
{
    my $this = shift;
    my $prop = $this->{'_vb'};
    if (!defined $prop) {
        $prop = $this->term()->{'_vb'};
        if (!defined $prop) {
            # fallback on terminfo
            eval { $prop = `tput flash` };
        }
    }
    # cache it
    $this->{'_vb'} = $prop;
    return $prop;
}

sub raw
{
    my $this = shift;
    eval { system qw(stty raw -echo) };
    return $this;
}

sub cooked
{
    my $this = shift;
    eval { system qw(stty -raw echo) };
    return $this;
}

sub flush_input
{
    my $this = shift;
    my $discard;
    $this->{IN} = '';
    while ( $this->key_pressed() ) { sysread(STDIN, $discard, 1); }
    return $this;
}

sub get_more_fn_keys
{
    my $this = shift;
    my $term = $this->term();
    my ($fn, $count, %keys);

#    $this->def_key( "ku", "\e[A" );   # vt100
#    $this->def_key( "kd", "\e[B" );   # vt100
#    $this->def_key( "kr", "\e[C" );   # vt100
#    $this->def_key( "kl", "\e[D" );   # vt100

    $this->def_key( "ku", "\eOA" );   # xterm
    $this->def_key( "kd", "\eOB" );   # xterm
    $this->def_key( "kr", "\eOC" );   # xterm
    $this->def_key( "kl", "\eOD" );   # xterm

#    $this->def_key( "k1",  "\e[11~" ); # vt100
#    $this->def_key( "k2",  "\e[12~" ); # vt100
#    $this->def_key( "k3",  "\e[13~" ); # vt100
#    $this->def_key( "k4",  "\e[14~" ); # vt100
#    $this->def_key( "k5",  "\e[15~" ); # vt100
#    $this->def_key( "k6",  "\e[17~" ); # vt100
#    $this->def_key( "k7",  "\e[18~" ); # vt100
#    $this->def_key( "k8",  "\e[19~" ); # vt100
#    $this->def_key( "k9",  "\e[20~" ); # vt100
#    $this->def_key( "k10", "\e[21~" ); # vt100
#    $this->def_key( "k11", "\e[23~" ); # vt100
#    $this->def_key( "k12", "\e[24~" ); # vt100

    $this->def_key( "k1", "\eOP" );   # xterm
    $this->def_key( "k2", "\eOQ" );   # xterm
    $this->def_key( "k3", "\eOR" );   # xterm
    $this->def_key( "k4", "\eOS" );   # xterm

    $this->def_key( "k1", "\e[[A" );  # Linux console
    $this->def_key( "k2", "\e[[B" );  # Linux console
    $this->def_key( "k3", "\e[[C" );  # Linux console
    $this->def_key( "k4", "\e[[D" );  # Linux console
    $this->def_key( "k5", "\e[[E" );  # Linux console

#    $this->def_key( "ins",  "\e[2~" );  # vt100
#    $this->def_key( "del",  "\e[3~" );  # vt100
#    $this->def_key( "pgup", "\e[5~" );  # vt100
#    $this->def_key( "pgdn", "\e[6~" );  # vt100

    $this->def_key( "home", "\e[H" );   # vt100
    $this->def_key( "end",  "\e[F" );   # vt100

    $this->def_key( "home", "\eOH" );   # xterm
    $this->def_key( "end",  "\eOF" );   # xterm

    $this->def_key( "home", "\e[1~" );  # Linux console
    $this->def_key( "end",  "\e[4~" );  # Linux console

    $this->def_key( "home", "\eO" );
    $this->def_key( "end",  "\eOw" );
    $this->def_key( "end",  "\eOe" );

    # try to get more useful things out of termcap

    %keys = (
        kI  => "ins",
        kD  => "del",
        kh  => "home",
       '@7' => "end",
        kP  => "pgup",
        kN  => "pgdn",
       'k;' => "k10",
        F1  => "k11",
        F2  => "k12",
    );

    $count = "0 but true";
    foreach $fn (keys %keys) {
        if (exists $term->{"_$fn"}) {
#            print "Defining $keys{$fn} as $term->{\"_$fn\"}\n";
            $this->def_key($keys{$fn}, $term->{"_$fn"});
            $count++;
        }
    }
    return $count;
}

##########################################################################
# return true

1;

##########################################################################
# end of manpage

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