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On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 09:08:05AM -0600, Albert Hopkins wrote: |
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> Ok so a long time ago there were these things called (text) terminals |
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> that were inherently text-based. Then along came these whiz-bang |
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> things called X terminals which were like the other terminals but could |
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> display graphics. They did make some GUI software/libraries for these X |
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> things, but to keep compatibility with the old text-based stuff they |
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> created software called "terminal emulators". |
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X-terminals handle graphics using an seperate (Socket based) connection- |
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what I want is display graphics within the normal terminal |
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stream/connection. |
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In the |
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http://www.quiss.org/files/gfxterminal.png |
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example, the tool "compare_images" would write a string "The images", a |
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terminal escape sequence for an image, another string "and" and another |
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terminal escape sequence to NORMAL STDOUT (!), and the terminal emulator |
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would convert the image escape sequence to a graphic. |
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So, basically, the above would also work over a SSH connection. |
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This is probably not unlike the Tektronix Vector Graphics, ReGIS, Sixel |
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or NAPLPS extensions found in the more fancy terminals back in the last |
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century, only I would need it for a terminal emulator, in color, and |
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relative to the current text position (I believe the other protocols |
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just allow you to switch the terminal to graphics mode and then draw |
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things on absolute positions, thereby destroying the text) |
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Any ideas where to find something like this? |
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Greetings |
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Matthias |
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