Loading avatar issues/readability/commands

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Loading avatar issues/readability/commands

[projectdelphai]

1. I've noticed the inability to exit from a load menu which needs to be fixed.
2. Displaying and deleting the profiles shouldn't be too hard. I recommend the nio package for it.
3. I'm thinking of having an option "lookaround" or "l" or "la" which would display all the options aroung you.
4. The "help" command definitely needs updating.
5. I'm not sure how to change the font color. Or if it is consistent across all terminals.

[pthayer3]

I may take a stab at these, atleast 1, 2, 3, 4.

I think there is a git command that goes "git log -p --color" that colorizes some of the text. I don't really know how it determines which text is which color tho, I assume it is set somewhere.

[shkesar]

I tried something like 5 before and there was different behavior when using some Unicode trick to get colors. That method didn't work around as it required some special sort of terminal only to work on. Then I came across jansi to get the things solved. Maybe looks like that can solve your 5 using that.

[blackwolf12333]

Font is set by the terminal itself, I don't know if it is possible to change from an outside program.

[projectdelphai]

I'm pretty sure you can't set font by the terminal. I'm not sure about color though. It looks like ANSI codes are one way to do this.

[blackwolf12333]

Color is possible, ncurses does it, I think it uses Unicode characters.

[shkesar]

How about we rather do a Swing Frame and make it look and behave like a terminal. It can incorporate some awesome features later.

[projectdelphai]

I was also thinking about something like this. I have no experience with this so I'm not sure if Swing Frames are the best way (I know people had been talking about using JavaFX before). However, a gui terminal would enable us to use things like ascii art, ncurses-like menus, colors, and better keyboard shortcuts. I imagine something like dwarf fortress (if any of you play). However, because this seems like a rather hard thing to implement especially considering the game mechanics themselves aren't fleshed out, I think it may be best to hold off on guis. Unless you have experience with it.

[shkesar]

I am just very little familiar with Swing.
Maybe we can just skip color for now. Even if we do it using some classic ASCII library, it will only be modified in future.
So the idea is archived for late.

[projectdelphai]

The only thing that needs to be fixed here is to show all the available saved profiles. Once that's done, this issue can be closed.