Image display

[sergi0g]

I want to create a proper ui with textual and was wondering if (and how) it is possible to render images in the terminal. Is there a way to do that?

[davep]

Textual itself doesn't have direct support for anything like that at the moment, although image support is on the roadmap. Meanwhile though there are options such as Rich Pixels that will turn images into Rich renderables. I used it it recently to quickly show low-res versions of regions maps from Second Life in the terminal.

[voxofox]

This is great! Thanks for the reference @davep.

Is there perhaps interest to support raster graphics, as is made possible by e.g. the Terminal Graphics protocol?

For example, instead of the image rendered into the terminal columns and rows, it can render images pixel-for-pixel in a terminal which supports the protocol

It's pretty neat!

P.s. The pixcat library is a good reference for how this might be integrated into a Rich / Textual module.

[davep]

Is there perhaps interest to support raster graphics, as is made possible by e.g. the Terminal Graphics protocol?

I imagine that's one of the things Will had in mind when placing image support on the roadmap. :-)

[torshepherd]

It would be REALLY nice to use notcurses, but there are two sets of python bindings and support/documentation is really limited and slowing down. But something with that sort of rasterization speed would easily open the door to video, drawing (html canvas equivalent), and really exciting stuff. Some dude even wrote a 3d graphics library on top of notcurses...