vty-5.20: A simple terminal UI library

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Graphics.Vty.Attributes

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Display attributes

Attributes have three components: a foreground color, a background color, and a style mask. The simplest attribute is the default attribute, or defAttr. Attributes can be modified with withForeColor, withBackColor, and withStyle, e.g.,

    defAttr `withForeColor` red

Image constructors often require an Attr to indicate the attributes used in the image, e.g.,

    string (defAttr `withForeColor` red) "this text will be red"

The appearance of Images using defAttr is determined by the The terminal, so this is not something VTY can control. The user is free to The define the color scheme of the terminal as they see fit.

The value currentAttr will keep the attributes of whatever was output previously.

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data Attr Source #

A display attribute defines the Color and Style of all the characters rendered after the attribute is applied.

At most 256 colors, picked from a 240 and 16 color palette, are possible for the background and foreground. The 240 colors and 16 colors are points in different palettes. See Color for more information.

data FixedAttr Source #

Specifies the display attributes such that the final style and color values do not depend on the previously applied display attribute. The display attributes can still depend on the terminal's default colors (unfortunately).

data MaybeDefault v where Source #

The style and color attributes can either be the terminal defaults. Or be equivalent to the previously applied style. Or be a specific value.

Constructors

Default :: MaybeDefault v 
KeepCurrent :: MaybeDefault v 
SetTo :: forall v. (Eq v, Show v, Read v) => !v -> MaybeDefault v 

defAttr :: Attr Source #

Sets the style, background color and foreground color to the default values for the terminal. There is no easy way to determine what the default background and foreground colors are.

currentAttr :: Attr Source #

Keeps the style, background color and foreground color that was previously set. Used to override some part of the previous style.

EG: current_style withForeColor brightMagenta

Would be the currently applied style (be it underline, bold, etc) but with the foreground color set to brightMagenta.

Styles

type Style = Word8 Source #

Styles are represented as an 8 bit word. Each bit in the word is 1 if the style attribute assigned to that bit should be applied and 0 if the style attribute should not be applied.

withStyle :: Attr -> Style -> Attr Source #

Add the given style attribute

standout :: Style Source #

The 6 possible style attributes:

  • standout
  • underline
  • reverseVideo
  • blink
  • dim
  • bold/bright

(The invisible, protect, and altcharset display attributes some terminals support are not supported via VTY.)

underline :: Style Source #

The 6 possible style attributes:

  • standout
  • underline
  • reverseVideo
  • blink
  • dim
  • bold/bright

(The invisible, protect, and altcharset display attributes some terminals support are not supported via VTY.)

reverseVideo :: Style Source #

The 6 possible style attributes:

  • standout
  • underline
  • reverseVideo
  • blink
  • dim
  • bold/bright

(The invisible, protect, and altcharset display attributes some terminals support are not supported via VTY.)

blink :: Style Source #

The 6 possible style attributes:

  • standout
  • underline
  • reverseVideo
  • blink
  • dim
  • bold/bright

(The invisible, protect, and altcharset display attributes some terminals support are not supported via VTY.)

dim :: Style Source #

The 6 possible style attributes:

  • standout
  • underline
  • reverseVideo
  • blink
  • dim
  • bold/bright

(The invisible, protect, and altcharset display attributes some terminals support are not supported via VTY.)

bold :: Style Source #

The 6 possible style attributes:

  • standout
  • underline
  • reverseVideo
  • blink
  • dim
  • bold/bright

(The invisible, protect, and altcharset display attributes some terminals support are not supported via VTY.)

hasStyle :: Style -> Style -> Bool Source #

true if the given Style value has the specified Style set.

Setting attribute colors

withForeColor :: Attr -> Color -> Attr Source #

Set the foreground color of an Attr.

withBackColor :: Attr -> Color -> Attr Source #

Set the background color of an Attr.

Setting hyperlinks

withURL :: Attr -> Text -> Attr Source #

Add a hyperlinked URL using the proposed escape sequences for hyperlinked URLs. These escape sequences are comparatively new and aren't widely supported in terminal emulators yet, but most terminal emulators that don't know about these sequences will ignore these sequences, and therefore this should fall back sensibly. In some cases they won't and this will result in garbage, so this is why hyperlinking is disabled by default, in which case this combinator has no observable effect. To enable it, enable Hyperlink mode on your Vty output interface.

Colors

data Color Source #

Abstract data type representing a color.

Currently the foreground and background color are specified as points in either a:

  • 16 color palette. Where the first 8 colors are equal to the 8 colors of the ISO 6429 (ANSI) 8 color palette and the second 8 colors are bright/vivid versions of the first 8 colors.
  • 240 color palette. This palette is a regular sampling of the full RGB colorspace for the first 224 colors. The remaining 16 colors is a greyscale palette.

The 8 ISO 6429 (ANSI) colors are as follows:

  1. black
  2. red
  3. green
  4. yellow
  5. blue
  6. magenta
  7. cyan
  8. white

The mapping from points in the 240 color palette to colors actually displayable by the terminal depends on the number of colors the terminal claims to support. Which is usually determined by the terminfo "colors" property. If this property is not being accurately reported then the color reproduction will be incorrect.

If the terminal reports <= 16 colors then the 240 color palette points are only mapped to the 8 color pallete. I'm not sure of the RGB points for the "bright" colors which is why they are not addressable via the 240 color palette.

If the terminal reports > 16 colors then the 240 color palette points are mapped to the nearest points in a ("color count" - 16) subsampling of the 240 color palette.

All of this assumes the terminals are behaving similarly to xterm and rxvt when handling colors. And that the individual colors have not been remapped by the user. There may be a way to verify this through terminfo but I don't know it.

Seriously, terminal color support is INSANE.

Constructors

ISOColor !Word8 
Color240 !Word8 

black :: Color Source #

Standard 8-color ANSI terminal color codes.

red :: Color Source #

Standard 8-color ANSI terminal color codes.

green :: Color Source #

Standard 8-color ANSI terminal color codes.

yellow :: Color Source #

Standard 8-color ANSI terminal color codes.

blue :: Color Source #

Standard 8-color ANSI terminal color codes.

magenta :: Color Source #

Standard 8-color ANSI terminal color codes.

cyan :: Color Source #

Standard 8-color ANSI terminal color codes.

white :: Color Source #

Standard 8-color ANSI terminal color codes.

brightBlack :: Color Source #

Bright/Vivid variants of the standard 8-color ANSI

brightRed :: Color Source #

Bright/Vivid variants of the standard 8-color ANSI

brightGreen :: Color Source #

Bright/Vivid variants of the standard 8-color ANSI

brightYellow :: Color Source #

Bright/Vivid variants of the standard 8-color ANSI

rgbColor :: Integral i => i -> i -> i -> Color Source #

Create a Vty Color (in the 240 color set) from an RGB triple.