Question: will term-image work with textual?

[wey-gu]

I am thinking of creating a TUI with Textual, where some of its views will generate PNG in memory and I like to render it with term-image(great work!).

Is this feasible?

ref: https://github.com/Textualize/textual

Thanks!

[AnonymouX47]

Hello!
Thanks for the compliments and support.

Feasible? Yes, definitely... but at the moment it'll be quite difficult to pull off, most especially for the graphics-based (high-resolution) render styles. In a couple words, the reason is... there's quite a lot that comes into play when displaying images in a TUI, unlike a CLI.

I actually have this (support for Textual) on the roadmap. The not-so-pleasant but inevitable news is that there's a lot that has be put in place in order to make this happen and up to par. I'm currently working on an almost entire redesign of the API which started from the last release and is ongoing at #97. See the milestones for a loose summary of the roadmap.

In case you want to ask for an ETA... unfortunately, I can't give one but rest assured that I'm putting my best efforts to it. I also want to see all the things I've conceived actualized ASAP 😃.

Once again, thank you! 😃

[wey-gu]

Wow, thanks a lot, @AnonymouX47 for the Detailed and patient explanation!

I should have given a search to know the roadmap before asking.

Thanks a lot for the great work and effort ongoing, please take your time! I couldn't imagine how to enable this towards so many different emulators/OS to render pictures natively(rather than pixels, I tried rich pixels, great work, but cannot do the high-resolution thing).

It's so very lucky to have you in the world.

Best Regards
Wey

[AnonymouX47]

It's a pleasure.

Thanks so much for the compliments and support and even more, for your understanding.

There's totally nothing wrong about you asking 😃. Though, I think I should put a link to the GitHub milestones on the README. 🤔
The "Planned Features" section of the docs is quite less broad and can only be updated every release, at least, for the stable version which is the default. I update the GitHub milestones much for frequently and can inherently provide more information about progress.

I hope to get back to you real soon 😃.

Best regards.