On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 8:31 PM DL Neil via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote: > 1 what features does the terminal offer when a user 'clicks'? > Is it only applicable to URLs and linked to the web-browser within > "Preferred Applications"? Are you able to 'grab' that click from the > app? eg MOUSEDOWN*.
In most terminal emulators, and certainly in xfce4-terminal, a URL can be highlighted and right-clicked on. Grabbing clicks IS possible, but that has other consequences, and is a subject for a separate thread (which I may end up raising). > 2 ultimately, you're on-a-hiding-to-nothing (apologies to > non-English-English speakers: means 'no hope'!) given that URLs are > defined by, but not length-limited by, RFC. Any 'limits' are applied by > implementation/web-browser publishers. Currently in-use editions may > vary widely, ie from 2K~64K. Any and all of which would blow terminal > line-lengths right out-of-the-water. Yeah, that part isn't too bad - what ends up happening is that the URL doesn't get wrapped. It's not pretty but it's functional. > However, may we return to my earlier question: could the app trap a > 'click'? In which case, the app could store the actual-URI and provide > its own Curie-like URL-shortening service, by substituting some > (shorter!) 'click-here' text into the presentation. On the > return-journey, in capturing the click, the app could substitute > back-again before passing the full-length URI to the web-browser. Yes, there are two ways that could be done: the hyperlink protocol, which isn't supported in most terminal applications; or manually handling all clicks, which quite possibly will end up being what happens. > * I've been looking at edX's "Creative Coding" online course. It is > aimed at artists and animators learning to code, and thus aims to make > the computer draw (instead of counting dollars-and-cents, per the usual > course-format). Sadly it is JavaScript-based (the p5.js library). Why do > things the easy way? Nah! Instead, I've been investigating a 'corner' of > Python with which I have had no contact to date. The Pygame library > offers a drawing "canvas", hence it gaining my attention. Plus, without > the complication of a full-fat GUI, (I think) it will present text AND > allow keyboard and mouse-key trapping - all from the comfort and glory > of a terminal-based Python program... > > Have you ever poked into this dark corner of the pip-y-verse? > Would you like a PoC (I'll call it 'coursework')? (tomorrow) > Never looked into that. I'm not really into art, sorry. (I once did a ten-minute art jam on a topic of "video game characters", and my chosen medium was... matplotlib. I'll let you guess at the details.) Drawing's never been something I'm any good at. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
