vty-5.17: A simple terminal UI library

Safe HaskellNone
LanguageHaskell2010

Graphics.Vty

Description

Vty provides interfaces for both terminal input and terminal output.

 import Graphics.Vty

 main = do
     cfg <- standardIOConfig
     vty <- mkVty cfg
     let line0 = string (defAttr ` withForeColor ` green) "first line"
         line1 = string (defAttr ` withBackColor ` blue) "second line"
         img = line0 <-> line1
         pic = picForImage img
     update vty pic
     e <- nextEvent vty
     shutdown vty
     print ("Last event was: " ++ show e)

Synopsis

Documentation

data Vty Source #

A Vty value represents a handle to the Vty library that the application must create in order to use Vty.

The use of Vty typically follows this process:

  1. Initialize vty
  2. Use update to display a picture.
  3. Use nextEvent to get the next input event.
  4. Depending on the event, go to 2 or 5.
  5. Shutdown vty.

Operations on Vty handles are not thread-safe.

Constructors

Vty 

Fields

  • update :: Picture -> IO ()

    Outputs the given Picture.

  • nextEvent :: IO Event

    Get one Event object, blocking if none are available. This will refresh the terminal if the event is a EvResize.

  • inputIface :: Input

    The input interface. See Input.

  • outputIface :: Output

    The output interface. See Output.

  • refresh :: IO ()

    Refresh the display. nextEvent will refresh the display if a resize occurs, but this can be used to refresh the display explicitly. If other programs output to the terminal and mess up the display then the application might want to force a refresh using this function.

  • shutdown :: IO ()

    Clean up after vty. A call to this function is necessary to cleanly restore the terminal state before application exit. The above methods will throw an exception if executed after this is executed.

mkVty :: Config -> IO Vty Source #

Create a Vty handle. At most one handle should be created at a time for a given terminal device.

The specified configuration is added to the the configuration loaded by userConfig with the userConfig configuration taking precedence. See Graphics.Vty.Config.

For most applications mkVty defaultConfig is sufficient.

data Mode Source #

Modal terminal features that can be enabled and disabled.

Constructors

Mouse

Mouse mode (whether the terminal is configured to provide mouse input events)

BracketedPaste

Paste mode (whether the terminal is configured to provide events on OS pastes)

Focus

Focus-in/focus-out events (whether the terminal is configured to provide events on focus change)

Instances

module Graphics.Vty.Config

module Graphics.Vty.Input

module Graphics.Vty.Output

module Graphics.Vty.Output.Interface

module Graphics.Vty.Picture

module Graphics.Vty.Image

module Graphics.Vty.Attributes