1notcurses-demo(1)                                            notcurses-demo(1)
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NAME

6       notcurses-demo - Show off some Notcurses features
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SYNOPSIS

9       notcurses-demo [-h|--help] [-p path] [-d delaymult]   [-l loglevel] [-J
10       jsonfile] [-m margins] [-V|--version] [-kc] demospec
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DESCRIPTION

13       notcurses-demo demonstrates the capabilities of the Notcurses  library.
14       It  can  be run in any terminal emulator or console with a correct ter‐
15       minfo(5) database, but is at is best in a 24bpp TrueColor RGB  environ‐
16       ment.  If notcurses-demo seems to generate garbage, something is likely
17       configured in a way that is going to prevent Notcurses from working  in
18       other applications.
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20       The demonstrations include (see NOTES below):
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22       • (a)nimate—explore cycles within Unicode
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24       • (b)oxes—pulsating boxes with a transparent center
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26       • (c)hunli—the strongest woman in the world
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28       • (d)ragon—the Harter-Heighway dragon curve
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30       • (e)agle—they took some time off my life, back in the day
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32       • (f)ission—the screen falls apart under heavy blows
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34       • (g)rid—a gradient of color lain atop a great grid
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36       • (h)ighcon—high contrast text atop various colors
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38       • (i)ntro—a setting of tone
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40       • (j)ungle—low-bandwidth color cycling reveals ancient ruins
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42       • (k)eller—the miracle of sight, and painting with Braille
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44       • (l)uigi—a dashing Apennine plumber in a world of fire
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46       • (m)ojibake—today's fresh catch of emoji (market price)
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48       • (n)ormal—a normal map of a friend, with effects
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50       • (o)utro—a message of hope from the library's author
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52       • (q)rcode—quick response codes (from ISO/IEC 18004:2015)
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54       • (r)eel—demonstration of the ncreel high-level widget
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56       • (s)liders—a missing-piece puzzle made up of colorful blocks
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58       • (t)rans—an exploration of various transparencies
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60       • (u)niblocks—a series of blocks detailing Unicode pages
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62       • (v)iew—images and a video are rendered as text
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64       • (w)hiteout—a great Nothing slowly robs the world of color
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66       • (x)ray—stimulate a logo with energy
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68       • (y)ield—the best laid schemes o' mice an'men gang aft agley
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70       • (z)oo—see the marvelous widgets of the Notcurses world
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72       At  any  time,  press 'q' to quit.  The demo is best run in at least an
73       80x45 terminal, and will refuse to run in anything smaller than 80x24.
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OPTIONS

76       -p path: Look in the specified path for data files.
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78       -d delaymult: Apply a non-negative rational multiplier to the  standard
79       delay of 1s.
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81       -l  loglevel: Log between everything (loglevel 7) and nothing (loglevel
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84       -f renderfile: Render each frame  to  renderfile  in  addition  to  the
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87       -J jsonfile: Emit JSON summary of run to jsonfile.
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89       -m margins: Define rendering margins (see below).
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91       -k:  Inhibit  use  of  the alternate screen.  Necessary if you want the
92       output left on your terminal after the program exits.
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94       -c: Do not attempt to seed the PRNG.  This is useful when benchmarking.
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96       -h|--help: Print a usage message, and exit with success.
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98       -V|--version: Print the program name and version, and  exit  with  suc‐
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101       demospec:  Select  which  demos  to run, and what order to run them in.
102       The default is ixetunchmdbkywgarvlsfjqzo.  See  above  for  a  list  of
103       demos.
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105       Default  margins  are all 0, and thus the full screen will be rendered.
106       Using -m, margins can be supplied.  Provide a single number to set  all
107       four  margins to the same value, or four comma-delimited values for the
108       top, right, bottom, and left margins  respectively.   Negative  margins
109       are illegal.
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NOTES

112       Proper display requires:
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114       • A  terminal  advertising  the rgb terminfo(5) capability, or that the
115         environment variable COLORTERM is defined to 24bit (and that the ter‐
116         minal honors RGB escapes),
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118       • A monospaced font, and
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120       • Good Unicode support in your libc, font, and terminal emulator.
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122       The Debian version of notcurses-demo leaves out certain multimedia con‐
123       sidered non-free under the Debian Free Software Guidelines.  As  a  re‐
124       sult,  the chunli, eagle, jungle, keller, luigi, and view demos are un‐
125       available through the Debian package.  This applies to any distro which
126       uses the DFSG source tarball, including Ubuntu and Fedora.
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128       If  Notcurses  is  built without multimedia support, the chunli, eagle,
129       keller, outro, view, xray, and yield demos will be partially or  wholly
130       unavailable.   If  Notcurses  is built without libqrcodegen, the qrcode
131       demo will be unavailable.
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133       If notcurses-demo is run in a terminal lacking the can_change  terminfo
134       capability, the jungle demo will be skipped.
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136       The  following  keypresses  are recognized (and are also available from
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139Ctrl-U: Toggle the help screen.
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141H: Toggle the HUD.  The HUD shows the most recent and current  demos'
142         runtime  and  number of rendered frames.  It can be grabbed and moved
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145P: Toggle the FPS graph.
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147Ctrl-R: Restart the demo.
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149Alt-d: Toggle a window with debugging information.
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151q: Quit.
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153       Benchmarking should be performed using -c to get  a  well-defined  PRNG
154       seed.  JSON output via -J will probably be useful.
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BUGS

157       Certain  demos (especially mojibake and uniblocks) heavily exercise the
158       font rendering stack.  If your font or rendering  engine  draws  glyphs
159       with  width  different  from  that  reported  by the standard library's
160       wcwidth(3), Notcurses will have an incorrect notion  of  cursor  place‐
161       ment, leading to undesirable behavior.
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164       • All code and design copyright Nick Black <nickblack@linux.com>.
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166       • Images  from  Street  Fighter  II  and Mega Man 2 copyright Capcom of
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169       • Images from Super Mario Bros.  copyright Nintendo of America.
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171       • Images from Ninja Gaiden copyright Koei Tecmo America.
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173       • Images from Final Fantasy copyright Square Enix Co Ltd.
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175       • Images from Back to the Future copyright  Universal  Studios  and  U-
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178       • "Jungle with Rain" copyright Mark Ferrari/Living Worlds.
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SEE ALSO

181       notcurses(3), ncurses(3NCURSES), wcwidth(3), terminfo(5)
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AUTHORS

184       nick black <nickblack@linux.com>.
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