TTkTerminal line buffer

[lucaminifreelance-art]

Hi, I'm using TTkTerminal. Is there a good way to save the line buffer? I tried to use ..._terminalView._screen_normal._bufferedLines but it have only the off screen lines. is there a buffer with every lines? and, how to change the buffer size? I 've seen a local varaible but no a parameter or a method to do it.
Thanks!

[ceccopierangiolieugenio]

TTkTerminal is an experimental widget, I haven't spent much time on it because it seems noone was interested.
So making it feature complete and fixing all the bugs was always int he backlog but I should start investing more time on it.

All the fields that starts with underscore ('_') are internal methods and variables that should not be exposed or used outside the class, their behaviour and signature may change overtime.

I think I have not those api yet but I can add it, later,
I have too many feature requests at the moment,
I am struggling to catch up with everything.

In the meantime you can render the canvas to a TTkString if this could be helpful:

    ansi_canvas = terminal._terminalView.getCanvas().toAnsi()
    lines = ttk.TTkString(ansi_canvas).split('\n')

it is not ideal and it would include the splitted lines due to the wrap.

Once i will finish the stderror handler I will improve TTkTerminal

[lucaminifreelance-art]

I understand the increasing requests...
For me the Terminal is extremely interesting because I can wrap an already functional application inside the new interface built with pyTermTk so to have a soft migration.

, with your suggestion I can read the part of the showed lines and the scrolled ones I read it with term._terminalView._screen_normal._bufferedLines.
For the moment it should do the trick :)

[ceccopierangiolieugenio]

getBuffer
included in #496

you can try it in:

python tests/t.pty/test.pty.006.terminal.08.getBuffer.py

[lucaminifreelance-art]

I'm trying it but:

  File "/home/luca/mect/projects/pyTermTk/tests/t.pty/test.pty.006.terminal.08.getBuffer.py", line 103, in _getBuffer
    buffer = term.getBuffer()
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: 'TTkTerminal' object has no attribute 'getBuffer'

[slook]

It's working for me.

[ceccopierangiolieugenio]

@lucaminifreelance-art
I fixed the sys path in the pty tests and pushed it to main, you can check it now