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AnsiLove.framework

Today I want to introduce you to what I’ve been coding recently. Here is a Cocoa framework for rendering ANSi art, and it’s called the AnsiLove.framework. It uses a modified version of Frederic Cambus’ awesome AnsiLove as library, creating PNG images from ANSi source files.

But why? As you may know, I’m busy developing Syntoxic right now but I’m also working on Ascension 2. Yes, that’s right. Ascension 2 is coming. A fact you probably haven’t known yet. One of the major features I planned for version 2 is rendering ANSi art. There will be a bunch of other great improvements, but this is the most remarkable. While searching the internet for some hints how to interpret ANSi escape sequences, I stumbled upon AnsiLove. Wouldn’t it be nice to use that as library and create a Cocoa layer on top of it? I needed to modify AnsiLove as well, but basically that’s what I did and it works just fine. Please note that it took me just a few days to create this framework, while Frederic Cambus spent years of coding and testing AnsiLove. He deserves all the honor for it, not me. The sources are up on GitHub, including a very detailed documentation. Drop a note if you like it, and stay tuned for some great things to come!

AnsiLove.framework repository on GitHub