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README.md

Go Figure

Description

Go Figure prints beautiful ASCII art from text. It supports FIGlet files, and most of its features.

This package was inspired by the Ruby gem artii, but built from scratch and with a different feature set.

Installation

go get github.com/common-nighthawk/go-figure

Basic Example

package main

import("github.com/common-nighthawk/go-figure")

func main() {
  myFigure := figure.NewFigure("Hello World", "", true)
  myFigure.Print()
}

  _   _          _   _          __        __                 _       _ 
 | | | |   ___  | | | |   ___   \ \      / /   ___    _ __  | |   __| |
 | |_| |  / _ \ | | | |  / _ \   \ \ /\ / /   / _ \  | '__| | |  / _` |
 |  _  | |  __/ | | | | | (_) |   \ V  V /   | (_) | | |    | | | (_| |
 |_| |_|  \___| |_| |_|  \___/     \_/\_/     \___/  |_|    |_|  \__,_|

Documentation

Create a Figure

There are two ways to create a Figure, with the method func NewFigure and the method func NewFigureWithFont.

Each constructor takes three arguments: the text, font, and strict mode. The difference between the two methods is the font. The method signature are:

func NewFigure(phrase, fontName string, strict bool) figure
func NewFigureWithFont(phrase string, reader io.Reader, strict bool) figure

NewFigure requires only the name of the font, and attempts to locate the font file on your machine.

If passed an empty string for the font name, a default is provided. That is, these are both valid--

myFigure := figure.NewFigure("Foo Bar", "", true)

myFigure := figure.NewFigure("Foo Bar", "alphabet", true)

Please note that font names are case sensitive.

Because of the separation between the executable (binary) Go creates and the source code, this lookup sometimes fails (glaces at Windows).

Therefore, NewFigureWithFont accepts the font file directly. Provide the absolute path to the flf. You can point to the file the comes with this project or you can store the file anywhere you'd like and use that location.

The font files are available in the fonts folder and on figlet.org.

Here are two examples--

myFigure := figure.NewFigureWithFont("Foo Bar", "/home/ubuntu/go/src/github.com/common-nighthawk/go-figure/fonts/alphabet.flf", true)

myFigure := figure.NewFigureWithFont("Foo Bar", "/home/lib/fonts/alaphabet.flf", true)

Strict mode dictates how to handle characters outside of standard ASCII. When set to true, a non-ASCII character (outside character codes 32-127) will cause the program to panic. When set to false, these characters are replaced with a question mark ('?'). Examples of each--

figure.NewFigure("Foo 👍 Bar", "alphabet", true).Print()

2016/12/01 19:35:38 invalid input.

figure.NewFigure("Foo 👍 Bar", "alphabet", false).Print()

 _____                     ___     ____                 
 |  ___|   ___     ___     |__ \   | __ )    __ _   _ __ 
 | |_     / _ \   / _ \      / /   |  _ \   / _` | | '__|
 |  _|   | (_) | | (_) |    |_|    | |_) | | (_| | | |   
 |_|      \___/   \___/     (_)    |____/   \__,_| |_|

Methods: stdout

Print()

The most basic, and common, method is func Print. A figure responds to Print(), and will write the output to the terminal. There is no return value.

myFigure.Print()

But if you're feeling adventurous, explore the methods below.

Blink(duration, timeOn, timeOff int)

A figure responds to the func Blink, taking three arguments. duration is the total time the banner will display, in milliseconds. timeOn is the length of time the text will blink on (also in ms). timeOff is the length of time the text will blink off (ms). For an even blink, set timeOff to -1 (same as setting timeOff to the value of timeOn). There is no return value.

myFigure.Blink(5000, 1000, 500)

myFigure.Blink(5000, 1000, -1)

Scroll(duration, stillness int, direction string)

A figure responds to the func Scroll, taking three arguments. duration is the total time the banner will display, in milliseconds. stillness is the length of time the text will not move (also in ms). Therefore, the lower the stillness the faster the scroll speed. direction can be either "right" or "left" (case insensitive). The direction will be left if an invalid option (e.g. "foo") is passed. There is no return value.

myFigure.Scroll(5000, 200, "right")

myFigure.Scroll(5000, 100, "left")

Dance(duration, freeze int)

A figure responds to the func Dance, taking two arguments. duration is the total time the banner will display, in milliseconds. freeze is the length of time between dance moves (also in ms). Therefore, the lower the freeze the faster the dancing. There is no return value.

myFigure.Dance(5000, 800)

Methods: Writers

Write(w io.Writer, fig figure)

Unlike the above methods that operate on a figure value, func Write is a function that takes two arguments. w is a value that implements all the methods in the io.Writer interface. fig is the figure that will be written.

figure.Write(w, myFigure)

This method would be useful, for example, to add a nifty banner to a web page--

func landingPage(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
  figure.Write(w, myFigure)
}

Methods: Misc

Slicify() ([]string)

If you want to do something outside of the created methods, you can grab the internal slice. This gives you a good start to build anything with the ASCII art, if manually.

A figure responds to the func Slicify, and will return the slice of strings.

myFigure.Slicify()

returns

["FFFF           BBBB         ",
 "F              B   B        ",
 "FFF  ooo ooo   BBBB   aa rrr",
 "F    o o o o   B   B a a r  ",
 "F    ooo ooo   BBBB  aaa r  "]

More Examples

figure.NewFigure("Go-Figure", "isometric1", true).Print()

      ___           ___           ___                       ___           ___           ___           ___     
     /\  \         /\  \         /\  \          ___        /\  \         /\__\         /\  \         /\  \    
    /::\  \       /::\  \       /::\  \        /\  \      /::\  \       /:/  /        /::\  \       /::\  \   
   /:/\:\  \     /:/\:\  \     /:/\:\  \       \:\  \    /:/\:\  \     /:/  /        /:/\:\  \     /:/\:\  \  
  /:/  \:\  \   /:/  \:\  \   /::\~\:\  \      /::\__\  /:/  \:\  \   /:/  /  ___   /::\~\:\  \   /::\~\:\  \ 
 /:/__/_\:\__\ /:/__/ \:\__\ /:/\:\ \:\__\  __/:/\/__/ /:/__/_\:\__\ /:/__/  /\__\ /:/\:\ \:\__\ /:/\:\ \:\__\
 \:\  /\ \/__/ \:\  \ /:/  / \/__\:\ \/__/ /\/:/  /    \:\  /\ \/__/ \:\  \ /:/  / \/_|::\/:/  / \:\~\:\ \/__/
  \:\ \:\__\    \:\  /:/  /       \:\__\   \::/__/      \:\ \:\__\    \:\  /:/  /     |:|::/  /   \:\ \:\__\  
   \:\/:/  /     \:\/:/  /         \/__/    \:\__\       \:\/:/  /     \:\/:/  /      |:|\/__/     \:\ \/__/  
    \::/  /       \::/  /                    \/__/        \::/  /       \::/  /       |:|  |        \:\__\    
     \/__/         \/__/                                   \/__/         \/__/         \|__|         \/__/

figure.NewFigure("Foo Bar Pop", "smkeyboard", true).Print()

 ____  ____  ____  ____  ____  ____  ____  ____  ____ 
||F ||||o ||||o ||||B ||||a ||||r ||||P ||||o ||||p ||
||__||||__||||__||||__||||__||||__||||__||||__||||__||
|/__\||/__\||/__\||/__\||/__\||/__\||/__\||/__\||/__\|

figure.NewFigure("Keep Your Eyes On Me", "rectangles", true).Print()

                                                                                          
 _____                 __ __                 _____                 _____       _____      
|  |  | ___  ___  ___ |  |  | ___  _ _  ___ |   __| _ _  ___  ___ |     | ___ |     | ___ 
|    -|| -_|| -_|| . ||_   _|| . || | ||  _||   __|| | || -_||_ -||  |  ||   || | | || -_|
|__|__||___||___||  _|  |_|  |___||___||_|  |_____||_  ||___||___||_____||_|_||_|_|_||___|
                 |_|                               |___|

figure.NewFigure("ABCDEFGHIJ", "eftichess", true).Print()

#########         #########   ___   #########         #########                           
##[`'`']#  \`~'/  ##'\v/`##  /\*/\  ##|`+'|##  '\v/`  ##\`~'/##  [`'`']   '\v/`    \`~'/  
###|  |##  (o o)  ##(o 0)## /(o o)\ ##(o o)##  (o 0)  ##(o o)##   |  |    (o 0)    (o o)  
###|__|##   \ / \ ###(_)###   (_)   ###(_)###   (_)   ###\ / \#   |__|     (_)      \ / \ 
#########    "    #########         #########         ####"####                      "

figure.NewFigure("Give your reasons", "doom", true).Blink(10000, 500, -1)

figure.NewFigure("I mean, I could...", "basic", true).Scroll(10000, 200, "right")

figure.NewFigure("But why would I want to?", "basic", true).Scroll(10000, 200, "left")

figure.NewFigure("It's been waiting for you", "larry3d", true).Dance(10000, 500)

figure.Write(w, figure.NewFigure("Hello, It's Me", "puffy", true))

Supported Fonts

3-d
3x5
5lineoblique
acrobatic
alligator
alligator2
alphabet
avatar
banner
banner3-D
banner3
banner4
barbwire
basic
bell
big
bigchief
binary
block
bubble
bulbhead
calgphy2
caligraphy
catwalk
chunky
coinstak
colossal
computer
contessa
contrast
cosmic
cosmike
cricket
cursive
cyberlarge
cybermedium
cybersmall
diamond
digital
doh
doom
dotmatrix
drpepper
eftichess
eftifont
eftipiti
eftirobot
eftitalic
eftiwall
eftiwater
epic
fender
fourtops
fuzzy
goofy
gothic
graffiti
hollywood
invita
isometric1
isometric2
isometric3
isometric4
italic
ivrit
jazmine
jerusalem
katakana
kban
larry3d
lcd
lean
letters
linux
lockergnome
madrid
marquee
maxfour
mike
mini
mirror
mnemonic
morse
moscow
nancyj-fancy
nancyj-underlined
nancyj
nipples
ntgreek
o8
ogre
pawp
peaks
pebbles
pepper
poison
puffy
pyramid
rectangles
relief
relief2
rev
roman
rot13
rounded
rowancap
rozzo
runic
runyc
sblood
script
serifcap
shadow
short
slant
slide
slscript
small
smisome1
smkeyboard
smscript
smshadow
smslant
smtengwar
speed
stampatello
standard
starwars
stellar
stop
straight
tanja
tengwar
term
thick
thin
threepoint
ticks
ticksslant
tinker-toy
tombstone
trek
tsalagi
twopoint
univers
usaflag
wavy
weird

Contributing

Because this project is small, we can dispense with formality. Submit a pull request, open an issue, request a change. All good!

Wanna Say Thanks?

GitHub stars are helpful. Most importantly, they help with discoverability. Projects with more stars are displayed higher in search results when people are looking for packages. Also--they make contributors feel good :)

If you are feeling especially generous, give a shout to @cmmn_nighthawk.

TODO

Add proper support for spaces
More animations
Implement graceful line-wrapping and smushing
Deep-copy font for Dance (current implementation is destructive)