hjkl-splash

Rendering-agnostic splash-screen animation for kryptic-sh projects.

A small state machine that traces a cursor along an arbitrary path through an ASCII-art block, leaving a fading trail behind it. The core is renderer-agnostic — it emits pure SplashCell items via an iterator, so consumers (TUI with ratatui, GUI with wgpu/canvas, web with HTML canvas) translate cells to their own surface without inheriting a renderer dependency.

Status

Pre-1.0. Public API is small and stable; expect additive changes (custom trail-color ramps, configurable hint-row layout, multi-color presets) on minor bumps. Breaking changes may land on minor bumps per Cargo SemVer for 0.x.

Usage

hjkl-splash = "0.1"

use hjkl_splash::{Splash, Layout, CellKind, presets};

let mut splash = Splash::new(presets::hjkl::ART, presets::hjkl::PATH);
let layout = Layout::centered(80, 24, presets::hjkl::ROWS, presets::hjkl::COLS);

for cell in splash.cells(layout) {
    match cell.kind {
        CellKind::Art => paint_dim(cell.x, cell.y, cell.ch),
        CellKind::Trail { age } => {
            let rgb = hjkl_splash::default_trail_color(age);
            paint(cell.x, cell.y, cell.ch, rgb);
        }
        CellKind::Cursor => paint_highlighted(cell.x, cell.y, cell.ch),
    }
}

splash.advance(); // call once per animation tick

ratatui adapter

hjkl-splash = { version = "0.1", features = ["ratatui"] }

use hjkl_splash::{default_trail_color, Rgb};
use ratatui::style::Color;

let color: Color = default_trail_color(2).into();

What's here

Splash<'a> — state machine: holds borrowed art + path, a tick counter, and a configurable trail length.
Splash::cells(layout) — iterator over every cell to paint this tick: art glyphs first, then trail (oldest → newest), then cursor.
CellKind { Art, Trail { age }, Cursor } — what role a cell plays; consumers map this to their own styling.
SplashCell { x, y, ch, kind } — pure cell descriptor, no rendering types in the signature.
Layout — origin + extent of the art block within a viewport. Layout::centered(w, h, rows, cols) matches the canonical hjkl placement (centered horizontally, slight headroom for hint text below).
Rgb(u8, u8, u8) — pure RGB triple. With features = ["ratatui"], Rgb implements From<Rgb> for ratatui::style::Color.
default_trail_color(age) — canonical greyscale fade ramp; consumers with their own theme can ignore this and provide custom mappings.
presets::hjkl — bundles the HJKL letterforms and the cursor-path that traces the H, J, K, L strokes. Other projects pass their own art + path.

License