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@diazona Handy UI library…

Last time I did a TUI I used urwid … which got the job done. The application was a test harness for an OpenThread-based device for production testing of hardware…

A bare board gets plugged into a Raspberry Pi… the Python application flashes a firmware image onto it (using a ROM bootloader built into the MCU) then puts the device through its paces.

This looks a lot more powerful though.

@stuartl Oh neat, I never heard of urwid, but judging by the screenshots it does seem to fit the theme of hardware testing

I would say programming with Textual feels a lot like programming with Qt. So there's probably something to the idea that Textual deliberately tries to emulate some of the higher-level abstractions in modern GUI toolkits (and Javascript frameworks), which probably makes it feel more powerful, even if I'd imagine you can do a lot of the same things in both.

@diazona @feoh Always get a kick out of folk enjoying Textual!

@willmcgugan @feoh Oh well that's fantastic! I really appreciate all the work you and the team did to make Textual a reality. It's definitely one of the most intuitive libraries I've ever used - honestly I'm surprised you're not overwhelmed with too many admirers to care about this little thing I'm doing

I was going to wait to share until I turn this into a proper TUI archive manager... it's going to be a little while though, there's a good chunk of work to go and this is just a nights-and-weekends project for me at the moment.

@diazona @feoh I look forward to seeing what you come up with! You might want to join the Discord if you aren't already signed up.

@willmcgugan @feoh oh I didn't realize there was one! I'll check it out.