Textual Interactive Console

by j1o1h1n 2 years ago

macOS ◆ xterm-256color ◆ zsh 1360 views

This is a demo of an interactive console in a Textual user interface.

the console is activated with the tilde key
click to focus and expand
the main app is available as “app”
demonstrations:
- update the header background colour
- call page down on the body
- asynchronously update the body contents

Textual - https://github.com/Textualize/textual Code - https://gist.github.com/j1o1h1n/2e8eea722a3a71d3190517a33569df57

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