Re: ANSI graphics in a GtkTextView Window

[John K Luebs <jkluebs luebsphoto com>]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 07:04:21PM -0400, Mark Hoover wrote:
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> From: Matthias Mann <matman matman24 org>
>
> > > and would like to be able to read in a file containing ANSI
> > > graphics (*.ans)
> >
> > What is that? *.ans? A joke? I had never heared about. And
> > how i know there is no graphics support in ANSI C.
>
> > But if you really have such graphics: Can't you convert
> > them to jpg or png format? Then you can use
> >
> >  gtk_image_new_from_file("filename");
>
> If I could find open source source code to convert the ANSI to
> a different format, yes, I could.  Except I'm lacking that code
> as well...

Have you considered the VTE terminal widget with a appropriate VGA font?