Finally turned my attention back today to ArtVu, the BBS-agnostic ANSI
art gallery program I started earlier this year, then rage-quit when I
couldn't figure out how to process a file, byte-by-byte, in order to parse extended ANSI codes/cursor codes to deal with column 80 implicit newlines,
and some other things related to larger screen sizes than 80.

This week, I spent some time (lunches!) studying people's code who had
done it in other languages -- Xqtr's mystic pythom (mpy) class, some C++
code, Go modules, etc. IMHO it's non-trivial, and Xqtr's solution is
pretty classy. Like, best i've seen to even handle horizontal scrolling
for art created for larger screen sizes, but viewable on 80 col terminal.

Happy to report I have the BEGINNINGS of a start in overcoming this
hurdle (in Go). Tried in lua, failed, but the Go solution ssems to
be working... Pretty happy. Nowhere near done, but for a hacker like me --
it's a small victory and a nice way to end the week!

Cheers, all

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Happy to report I have the BEGINNINGS of a start in overcoming this
hurdle (in Go). Tried in lua, failed, but the Go solution ssems to
be working... Pretty happy. Nowhere near done, but for a hacker like
me --
it's a small victory and a nice way to end the week!

Congrats! It is a real pain parsing ansi. I'm not sure how you go about
it, but the way to go in my opinion is to render it all in memory, have
some 80xheight matrix filled with structures containing colour,
background colour and character.

Once you parse it all into that you can display it as you want, it's a
whole lot of work though.

Andrew

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Happy to report I have the BEGINNINGS of a start in overcoming this
hurdle (in Go). Tried in lua, failed, but the Go solution ssems to
be working... Pretty happy. Nowhere near done, but for a hacker like me
-- it's a small victory and a nice way to end the week!

Right on, dude. Regardless of the project, I love when you come back to something and get further or over a hurdle that you couldn't figure out last time...

I dig ArtVu and continue to watch that many things you do for BBSing. Thanks, rockstar.



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On 29 Oct 2021 at 05:02p, aLPHA pondered and said...

Happy to report I have the BEGINNINGS of a start in overcoming this
hurdle (in Go). Tried in lua, failed, but the Go solution ssems to
be working... Pretty happy. Nowhere near done, but for a hacker like me
-- it's a small victory and a nice way to end the week!

Hey there :)

Congrats it's always rewarding to progress a project you are wanting to get across the line. Well done good sir!

Best, Paul

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