Glossary

View:

An organizational structure for arranging view objects on the screen. Can be constructed with a dictionary all at once or by constructing it piecewise.

Field:

The various sections of a view. ‘header’, ‘body’, ‘footer’, ‘styles’ and ‘util’ are all fields.

View Object:

Something that gets displayed to the screen, makes up the view, gets put into view fields

Renderer:

A class to handle rendering, compositing of views and arranging view objects into screen space

Text:

A universal text displaying view object, that can handle changes from other places (via a callback), single line and multiple line displaying, text formatting. Also has an attribute for a callout where if the text is selected by another view object (like a menu) the function referenced in the callout will be called.

Multitext:

A sequence of text objects for creating menus

Cell:

A single character in the grid of characters that make up the terminal. The base unit of terminal space.

Cell Based Representation:

Many cells arranged in a grid, like a 2D matrix, also sometimes referred to as the screen-space representation.