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TuiCaps

Holds what a terminal can do: colour depth, mouse, paste, focus events, Unicode.

Syntax

type TuiCaps
    as boolean isTerminal
    as int32 depth          '' TuiColorDepth
    as boolean mouse, bracketedPaste, focusEvents, unicode
end type

Description

What this terminal can do, from TERM, COLORTERM, WT_SESSION, the Windows build number and GetConsoleMode. There is no terminfo database involved.

Example

#import "std/tui"
using tui

dim as TuiTerminal term
dim as TuiCaps c = term.DetectCaps( )
if( c.unicode = FALSE ) then
    '' fall back to ASCII borders rather than drawing boxes out of mojibake
    print "ASCII mode"
end if
print c.depth = TUIDEPTH_TRUECOLOR orelse c.depth = TUIDEPTH_256 _
      orelse c.depth = TUIDEPTH_ANSI16 orelse c.depth = TUIDEPTH_MONO   '' true

See also

TuiTerminal	TuiTerminal.IsActive	TuiTerminal.DetectCaps	TuiTerminal.Flush
TuiTerminal.Enter	TuiTerminal.Size	TuiTerminal.Write	TuiTerminal.Discard
TuiTerminal.Leave	TuiTerminal.Caps	TuiTerminal.WriteText	TuiTerminal.Pending

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Library: Terminal TUI Library
Category: Terminal TUI Library
Documented under: Terminal
Working examples: hello.tiko · form.tiko · dashboard.tiko

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