Dashing is a library to quickly create terminal-based dashboards in Python.

Similar libraries for other languages: termui blessed blessed-contrib

Features: - [x] Sub-character resolution (partially filled blocks) - [x] Horizontal and vertical bars with gradient coloring - [x] Text and log panes with automated scrolling - [x] Automatic scaling of all elements - [x] Vertical and horizontal tile splitting - [x] Braille-filled charts - [x] Theming with 24-bit RGB and HSV colors - [x] Color gradients

Dependencies

The blessed library.

Installation

Use packages from your Linux distribution, or:

pip install dashing

Usage

See the documentation at https://dashing.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Usage

import math
from time import time, sleep

from dashing import (
    ColorRangeVGauge,
    HBrailleChart,
    HChart,
    HGauge,
    HSplit,
    Log,
    Text,
    VChart,
    VGauge,
    VSplit,
)

if __name__ == '__main__':

    ui = HSplit(
        VSplit(
            HGauge(val=50, title="only title", border_color=5),
            HGauge(label="only label", val=20, border_color=5),
            HGauge(label="only label", val=30, border_color=5),
            HGauge(label="only label", val=50, border_color=5),
            HGauge(label="only label", val=80, border_color=5),
            HGauge(val=20),
            HGauge(label="label, no border", val=55),
            HSplit(
                VGauge(val=0, border_color=2),
                VGauge(val=5, border_color=2),
                VGauge(val=30, border_color=2),
                VGauge(val=50, border_color=2),
                VGauge(val=80, border_color=2, color=4),
                VGauge(val=95, border_color=2, color=3),
                ColorRangeVGauge(
                    val=100,
                    border_color=2,
                    colormap=(
                        (33, 2),
                        (66, 3),
                        (100, 1),
                    )
                ),
            )
        ),
        VSplit(
            Text('Hello World,\nthis is dashing.', border_color=2),
            Log(title='logs', border_color=5),
            VChart(border_color=2, color=2),
            HChart(border_color=2, color=2),
            HBrailleChart(border_color=2, color=2),
            # HBrailleFilledChart(border_color=2, color=2),
        ),
        title='Dashing',
    )
    log = ui.items[1].items[1]
    vchart = ui.items[1].items[2]
    hchart = ui.items[1].items[3]
    bchart = ui.items[1].items[4]
    # bfchart = ui.items[1].items[5]
    log.append("0 -----")
    log.append("1 Hello")
    log.append("2 -----")
    prev_time = time()

    with open_terminal() as terminal:
      for cycle in range(0, 200):
          ui.items[0].items[0].value = int(50 + 49.9 * math.sin(cycle / 80.0))
          ui.items[0].items[1].value = int(50 + 45 * math.sin(cycle / 20.0))
          ui.items[0].items[2].value = int(50 + 45 * math.sin(cycle / 30.0 + 3))

          vgauges = ui.items[0].items[-1].items
          for gaugenum, vg in enumerate(vgauges):
              vg.value = 50 + 49.9 * math.sin(cycle / 12.0 + gaugenum)

          t = int(time())
          if t != prev_time:
              log.append("%s" % t)
              prev_time = t
          vchart.append(50 + 50 * math.sin(cycle / 16.0))
          hchart.append(99.9 * abs(math.sin(cycle / 26.0)))
          bchart.append(50 + 50 * math.sin(cycle / 6.0))
          # bfchart.append(50 + 50 * math.sin(cycle / 16.0))

          ui.display(terminal)

          sleep(1.0 / 25)