Feature request: Pause button

[PetterS]

For all recordings except really simple ones, I think a pause button will be useful. It will let users copy text etc. I expect that this would require embedded JS, though.

Combined with a progress bar for seeking etc., this feature would be even better.

[nbedos]

I agree, not being able to pause the animation is annoying. I'll look into it.

[vuuv]

@nbedos i'm interest to this too, this maybe help: http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Interactive_SVG-SMIL_animation_tutorial#Stopping_.2F_pausing_animation

[ylmrx]

currently working on this.

[ylmrx]

https://github.com/ylmrx/termtosvg/blob/ylmrx-patch-1/playpause.svg
What do you think ?
(right-click > display image). (see the red/green button upper right)
I need to implement the option to enable / disable it from CLI.
I don't want to embed some image, or have an ugly text, the color code seems the best and most straightforward to me. If you or @nbedos has a better idea, advise.

[PetterS]

Nice! It works for me in Chrome and Firefox. But perhaps you can use Unicode ⏸ and ▶ for displaying the buttons? Or does that qualify as "ugly text"?

[ylmrx]

ugly text meant "[PAUSE]" :)
I guess all browsers which can SVG shouldn't fail to hard with these (basic) unicodes. It display like this now : https://github.com/ylmrx/termtosvg/blob/ylmrx-patch-1/termtosvg_k65gm89m.svg
I have to clean the code, and make a PR later this week ! Stay tuned :D

[ylmrx]

I wasn't able to make it before end of week, but here it is :

<3

#45

[nbedos]

Here's the slider I'd like to add too.

You have to click on the red square to catch it and then you can slide it left or right to explore the whole timeline.

I know nothing about JS though so this part of the code will need some serious review.

awesome.svg.zip

[styfle]

@nbedos I can review JS. I already took a look at #45 and left some comments.

[ylmrx]

The slider needs quite some work (I don't know much about JS in such context). And will probably need deep modifications within render_anim() function.
I feel it should be adressed in another issue ( #24 ). Still I love where this is going !

[nbedos]

This use case will be covered by SVG templates. See #53 for further discussion.