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Sunday, February 10, 2019

Using the asciimatics and pyfiglet python modules

This is a simple example how to use the asciimatics and pyfiglet python modules with python version 3.6.4.
First you need to install with the pip tool.
The source code is simple and start with the import it.
The Fire, Print and Screen is used to show the fire effect and print text with Figlet and FigletText.
Because the fire and text use the console application I used the default Screen Buffer Size set to 80.
The Screen.wrapper(my_work_web) show all effects from the my_work_web.
In this area is created variables for font type: banner_font and web_font.
The main reason I named the web_font was to show my web page but the size of the over the screensize.
I tested most of the fonts from pyfiglet python module but I cannot find one to show a web page link.
This is the source code I tested:
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
@author: catafest
"""

from asciimatics.renderers import FigletText, Fire
from asciimatics.scene import Scene
from asciimatics.screen import Screen
from asciimatics.effects import Print
from asciimatics.exceptions import ResizeScreenError
from pyfiglet import Figlet
import sys

def my_work_web(screen):
    banner_font = "banner3"
    web_font = "block"
    scenes = []
    effects = [
        Print(screen,
              Fire(screen.height, 80, "*" * 70, 0.8, 60, screen.colours,
                   bg=screen.colours >= 256),
              0,
              speed=1,
              transparent=False),
        Print(screen,
              FigletText("Follow ", banner_font),
              (screen.height - 4) // 2,
              colour=Screen.COLOUR_BLUE,
              speed=1,
              stop_frame=30),
        Print(screen,
              FigletText("me", banner_font),
              (screen.height - 4) // 2,
              colour=Screen.COLOUR_BLUE,
              speed=1,
              start_frame=30,
              stop_frame=50),
        Print(screen,
              FigletText("on web", banner_font),
              (screen.height - 4) // 2,
              colour=Screen.COLOUR_BLUE,
              speed=1,
              start_frame=50,
              stop_frame=70),
        Print(screen,
              FigletText("catafest", banner_font),
              (screen.height - 4) // 2,
              colour=Screen.COLOUR_BLUE,
              speed=1,
              start_frame=70),
    ]
    scenes.append(Scene(effects, 100))

    text = Figlet(font=web_font, width=300).renderText("bye!")
    width = max([len(x) for x in text.split("\n")])

    effects = [
        Print(screen,
              Fire(screen.height, 80, "*" * 70, 0.8, 60, screen.colours),
              0,
              speed=1,
              transparent=False),

        Print(screen,
              FigletText("bye!", web_font),
              (screen.height - 2)  // 2,
              colour=Screen.COLOUR_WHITE,
              bg=Screen.COLOUR_BLUE,
              speed=1)
    ]
    scenes.append(Scene(effects, -1))
    screen.play(scenes, stop_on_resize=True)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    while True:
        try:
            Screen.wrapper(my_work_web)
            sys.exit(0)
        except ResizeScreenError:
            pass
The result of this source code is this: