AA Helper Library

A Basic Library of Helper functions for AAlib

AAlib is a rather fantastic library. I urge you to download it and try it, especially the mildly scary BB Demo [Mirror]

Inspiration that started this is AAJM, when I implemented circles and lines. More or less on a whim, I turned it into a more convincing project.

Yes, I'm fully aware of the existence of libcaca. A few things:

  1. Libcaca's picture definition isn't as good as aalib's - as the designer of libcaca stated, it's designed to make colors work right on ascii displays, rather than necessarily the shapes. For a simple example of this, run cacafire next to aafire on a screen at the same time
  2. AA Helper addresses most of libcaca's other good points - sprites and graphics primitives, primarily
  3. If you're at the point where you feel the urge to even start this argument, you've got bigger issues than whether or not a text-mode library is as good as another

Download

ChangeLog README TODO

Instructions on use are in the README

Also, you can extract and "make test".

Screenshots

And some higher res ones using

AAOPTS="-driver slang -width 240 -height 150" \
	xterm -fn micro -geometry 240x150

Gary (-;
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