neo-blessed/README.md

# blessed

A curses-like library for node.js.

Blessed was originally written to only support the xterm terminfo, but can
now parse and compile any terminfo to be completely portable accross all
terminals. See the `tput` example below.

I want this library to eventually become a high-level library for terminal
widgets.

## Example Usage

This will actually parse the xterm terminfo and compile every
string capability to a javascript function:

``` js
var Tput = require('blessed').Tput
  , tput = Tput('xterm');

console.log(tput.setaf(4) + 'hello' + tput.sgr0());
```

To play around with it on the command line, it works just like tput:

``` bash
$ tput.js setaf 2
$ tput.js sgr0
$ echo "$(tput.js setaf 2)hello world$(tput.js sgr0)"
```

The higher level functionality is exposed in the main `blessed` module:

``` js
var blessed = require('blessed')
  , program = blessed();

program.on('keypress', function(ch, key) {
  if (key.name === 'q') {
    program.clear();
    program.disableMouse();
    program.showCursor();
    program.normalBuffer();
    process.exit(0);
  }
});

program.on('mouse', function(data) {
  if (data.action === 'mouseup') return;
  program.move(1, program.rows);
  program.eraseInLine('right');
  if (data.action === 'wheelup') {
    program.write('Mouse wheel up at: ' + data.x + ', ' + data.y);
  } else if (data.action === 'wheeldown') {
    program.write('Mouse wheel down at: ' + data.x + ', ' + data.y);
  } else if (data.action === 'mousedown' && data.button === 'left') {
    program.write('Left button down at: ' + data.x + ', ' + data.y);
  } else if (data.action === 'mousedown' && data.button === 'right') {
    program.write('Right button down at: ' + data.x + ', ' + data.y);
  } else {
    program.write('Mouse at: ' + data.x + ', ' + data.y);
  }
  program.move(data.x, data.y);
  program.bg('red');
  program.write(' ');
  program.bg('!red');
});

program.on('focus', function() {
  program.move(1, program.rows);
  program.write('Gained focus.');
});

program.on('blur', function() {
  program.move(1, program.rows);
  program.write('Lost focus.');
});

program.alternateBuffer();
program.enableMouse();
program.hideCursor();
program.clear();

program.move(1, 1);
program.bg('black');
program.write('Hello world', 'blue fg');
program.setx((program.cols / 2 | 0) - 4);
program.down(5);
program.write('Hi again!');
program.bg('!black');
program.feed();

program.getCursor(function(err, data) {
  if (!err) {
    program.write('Cursor is at: ' + data.x + ', ' + data.y + '.');
    program.feed();
  }

  program.charset('SCLD');
  program.write('abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789');
  program.charset('US');
  program.setx(1);
});
```

## License

Copyright (c) 2013, Christopher Jeffrey. (MIT License)

See LICENSE for more info.