algorythm-dylan / tg_legacy

Cross-platform terminal graphics library

TG

Cross-platform terminal graphics library

TG grants you advanced control over the terminal in a standard, cross-platform manner with wide character (UTF, emoji, etc) support baked in and not appended as an afterthought.

TG is double-buffered, like normal graphical programs are, to ensure quick rendering. Writing pixels to the screen is an expensive operation, so most graphics programs write to an off-screen buffer and then swap the off-screen buffer with the on-screen one, to only do one screen update per frame. TG works the same way.

TG is only as good as the terminal emulator it is run in. On Windows, the Terminal Preview (Available in the store for download) is recommended, as it can render emojis properly, whereas CMD.exe and powershell.exe support UTF-8, but not emojis.

On Linux, there are hundreds of terminal emulators available. Many of them work with UTF-8 and emojis.

TG is well-documented here

BRANCHES:

• Master: Release branch
• Latest: Most recent complete (But not necessarily stable) build
• Live: Used to send code between my Windows and Linux machines, mostly