What does it do ? (we skip variable definitions, guessing you have a brain) :
- Create a caca canvas. A canvas is where everything happens. Writing characters, sprites, strings, images, everything. It is mandatory and is the reason of libcacas' beeing. Size is there a width of 0 pixels, and a height of 0 pixels. It'll be resized according to contents you put in it.
- Create a caca display. This is basically the window. Physically it can be a window (most of the displays), a console (ncurses, slang) or a real display (VGA).
- Set the window name of our display (only available in windowed displays, does nothing otherwise). (so this is libcaca related)
- Set current colors to black background, and white foreground of our canvas (so this is libcaca related)
- Put a string "This is a message" with current colors in our libcaca canvas.
- Refresh our caca display, whish was firstly attached to our canvas
- Wait for an event of type "CACA_EVENT_KEY_PRESS", which seems obvious.
- Free display (release memory)
- Free canvas (release memory and close window if any)
You can then compile this code under UNIX-like systems with following command : (you'll need pkg-config and gcc)
What does it do?
- Create a display. Physically, the display is either a window or a context
in a terminal (ncurses, slang) or even the whole screen (VGA).
- Get the display's associated canvas. A canvas is the surface where
everything happens: writing characters, sprites, strings, images... It is
unavoidable. Here the size of the canvas is set by the display.
- Set the display's window name (only available in windowed displays, does
nothing otherwise).
- Set the current canvas colours to black background and white foreground.
- Write the string "This is a message" using the current colors onto the
canvas.
- Refresh the display.
- Wait for an event of type "CACA_EVENT_KEY_PRESS".
- Free the display (release memory). Since it was created together with the
display, the canvas will be automatically freed as well.
You can then compile this code on an UNIX-like system using the following
comman (requiring pkg-config and gcc):
\code
gcc `pkg-config --libs --cflags caca` example.c -o example