-Jexer - Java Text User Interface library
-========================================
+English [Français](README-fr.md)
-WARNING: THIS IS ALPHA CODE!
+# Fanfix
-This library is intended to implement a text-based windowing system
-loosely reminiscient of Borland's [Turbo
-Vision](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Vision) library. For those
-wishing to use the actual C++ Turbo Vision library, see [Sergio
-Sigala's updated version](http://tvision.sourceforge.net/) that runs
-on many more platforms.
+Fanfix is a small Java program that can download stories from some supported websites and render them offline.
-Two backends are available:
+## 🔴 This is the command line and server program
-* System.in/out to a command-line ECMA-48 / ANSI X3.64 type terminal
- (tested on Linux + xterm). I/O is handled through terminal escape
- sequences generated by the library itself: ncurses is not required
- or linked to. xterm mouse tracking using UTF8 coordinates is
- supported. This is the default backend on non-Windows platforms.
+You can also use:
+- the graphical client [Fanfix-swing](https://github.com/nikiroo/fanfix-swing/)
+- the TUI client [Fanfix-jexer](https://github.com/nikiroo/fanfix-jexer/)
-* Java AWT UI. This backend can be selected by setting
- jexer.AWT=true. This is the default backend on Windows platforms.
- AWT is experimental, please consider filing bugs when you encounter
- them. The default window size for AWT is 132x40, which is set in
- jexer.session.AWTSession.
+## Synopsis
-A demo application showing the existing UI controls is available via
-'java -jar jexer.jar' or 'java -Djexer.AWT=true -jar jexer.jar' .
+- ```fanfix``` --import [*URL*]
+- ```fanfix``` --export [*id*] [*output_type*] [*target*]
+- ```fanfix``` --convert [*URL*] [*output_type*] [*target*] (+info)
+- ```fanfix``` --read [*id*] ([*chapter number*])
+- ```fanfix``` --read-url [*URL*] ([*chapter number*])
+- ```fanfix``` --search
+- ```fanfix``` --search [*where*] [*keywords*] (page [*page*]) (item [*item*])
+- ```fanfix``` --search-tag
+- ```fanfix``` --search-tag [*index 1*]... (page [*page*]) (item [*item*])
+- ```fanfix``` --list
+- ```fanfix``` --server [*key*] [*port*]
+- ```fanfix``` --stop-server [*key*] [*port*]
+- ```fanfix``` --remote [*key*] [*host*] [*port*]
+- ```fanfix``` --help
+## Description
+(If you are interested in the recent changes, please check the [Changelog](changelog.md) -- note that starting from version 1.4.0, the changelog is checked at startup.)
-License
--------
+This program will convert from a (supported) URL to an .epub file for stories or a .cbz file for comics (a few other output types are also available, like Plain Text, LaTeX, HTML...).
-This project is licensed LGPL ("GNU Lesser General Public License",
-sometimes called the "Library GPL") version 3 or greater. You may
-freely use Jexer in both closed source (proprietary) and open source
-applications, however any changes you make to the Jexer code must be
-made available to your users.
+To help organize your stories, it can also work as a local library so you can:
-See the file LICENSE for the full license text, which includes both
-the GPL v3 and the LGPL supplemental terms.
+- Import a story from its URL (or just from a file)
+- Export a story to a file (in any of the supported output types)
+- Display a story from the local library in text format in the console
+- Via [fanfix-swing](https://github.com/nikiroo/fanfix-swing/): Display a story from the local library graphically **by itself** ([fanfix-swing](https://github.com/nikiroo/fanfix-swing/)) or **by calling a native program to handle it** (potentially converted into HTML before hand, so any browser can open it)
+### Supported websites
+Currently, the following websites are supported:
-Acknowledgements
-----------------
+- http://FimFiction.net/: fan fictions devoted to the My Little Pony show
+- http://Fanfiction.net/: fan fictions of many, many different universes, from TV shows to novels to games
+- http://mangahub.io/: a well filled repository of mangas (English)
+- https://e621.net/: a Furry website supporting comics, including MLP
+- https://sofurry.com/: same thing, but story-oriented
+- https://e-hentai.org/: done upon request (so, feel free to ask for more websites!)
+- http://mangas-lecture-en-ligne.fr/: a website offering a lot of mangas (in French)
-Jexer makes use of the Terminus TrueType font [made available
-here](http://files.ax86.net/terminus-ttf/) .
+### Support file types
+We support a few file types for local story conversion (both as input and as output):
+- epub: .epub files created by this program (we do not support "all" .epub files, at least for now)
+- text: local stories encoded in plain text format, with a few specific rules:
+ - the title must be on the first line
+ - the author (preceded by nothing, ```by ``` or ```©```) must be on the second line, possibly with the publication date in parenthesis (i.e., ```By Unknown (3rd October 1998)```)
+ - chapters must be declared with ```Chapter x``` or ```Chapter x: NAME OF THE CHAPTER```, where ```x``` is the chapter number
+ - a description of the story must be given as chapter number 0
+ - a cover image may be present with the same filename as the story, but a .png, .jpeg or .jpg extension
+- info_text: contains the same information as the text format, but with a companion .info file to store some metadata (the .info file is supposed to be created by Fanfix or compatible with it)
+- cbz: .cbz (collection of images) files, preferably created with Fanfix (but any .cbz file is supported, though without most of Fanfix metadata, obviously)
+- html: HTML files that you can open with any browser; note that it will create a directory structure with ```index.html``` as the main file -- we only support importing HTML files created by Fanfix
-Usage
------
+### Supported platforms
-Usage patterns are still being worked on, but in general the goal will
-be to build applications somewhat as follows:
+Any platform with at lest Java 1.6 on it should be ok.
-```Java
-import jexer.*;
+It has been tested on Linux (Debian, Slackware, Ubuntu), MacOS X and Windows for now, but feel free to inform us if you try it on another system.
-public class MyApplication extends TApplication {
+If you have any problems to compile it with a supported Java version (1.6+), please contact us.
- public MyApplication() {
- super();
+## Options
- // Create standard menus for File and Window
- addFileMenu();
- addWindowMenu();
- }
+You can start the program in two ways:
- public static void main(String [] args) {
- MyApplication app = new MyApplication();
- app.run();
- }
-}
-```
+- ```java -jar fanfix.jar```
+- ```fanfix``` (if you used *make install*)
-See the file demos/Demo1.java for detailed examples.
+The following arguments are allowed:
+- ```--import [URL]```: import the story at URL into the local library
+- ```--export [id] [output_type] [target]```: export the story denoted by ID to the target file
+- ```--convert [URL] [output_type] [target] (+info)```: convert the story at URL into target, and force-add the .info and cover if +info is passed
+- ```--read [id] ([chapter number])```: read the given story denoted by ID from the library
+- ```--read-url [URL] ([chapter number])```: convert on the fly and read the story at URL, without saving it
+- ```--search```: list the supported websites (```where```)
+- ```--search [where] [keywords] (page [page]) (item [item])```: search on the supported website and display the given results page of stories it found, or the story details if asked
+- ```--tag [where]```: list all the tags supported by this website
+- ```--tag [index 1]... (page [page]) (item [item])```: search for the given stories or subtags, tag by tag, and display information about a specific page of results or about a specific item if requested
+- ```--list```: list the stories present in the library and their associated IDs
+- ```--server [key] [port]```: start a story server on this port
+- ```--stop-server [key] [port]```: stop the remote server running on this port (key must be set to the same value)
+- ```--remote [key] [host] [port]```: contact this server instead of the usual library (key must be set to the same value)
+- ```--help```: display the available options
+- ```--version```: return the version of the program
+### Environment
-Known Issues / Arbitrary Decisions
-----------------------------------
+Some environment variables are recognized by the program:
-Some arbitrary design decisions had to be made when either the
-obviously expected behavior did not happen or when a specification was
-ambiguous. This section describes such issues.
+- ```LANG=en```: force the language to English
+- ```CONFIG_DIR=$HOME/.fanfix```: use the given directory as a config directory (and copy the default configuration if needed)
+- ```NOUTF=1```: try to fallback to non-unicode values when possible (can have an impact on the resulting files, not only on user messages)
+- ```DEBUG=1```: force the ```DEBUG=true``` option of the configuration file (to show more information on errors)
- TTerminalWindow
- ---------------
+## Compilation
- - TTerminalWindow will hang on input from the remote if the
- TApplication is exited before the TTerminalWindow's process has
- closed on its own. This is due to a Java limitation/interaction
- between blocking reads (which is necessary to get UTF8 translation
- correct) and file streams.
+```./configure.sh && make```
- - See jexer.tterminal.ECMA48 for more specifics of terminal
- emulation limitations.
+You can also import the java sources into, say, [Eclipse](https://eclipse.org/), and create a runnable JAR file from there.
+There are some unit tests you can run, too:
+```./configure.sh && make build test run-test```
+If you run the unit tests, note that some flag files can impact them:
-Roadmap
--------
+- ```test/VERBOSE``` : enable verbose mode
+- ```test/OFFLINE``` : to forbid any downloading
+- ```test/URLS``` : to allow testing URLs
+- ```test/FORCE_REFRESH```: to force a clear of the cache
-Many tasks remain before calling this version 1.0:
+Note that ```test/CACHE``` can be kept, as it will contain all internet related files you need (if you allow URLs, run the test once which will populate the CACHE then go OFFLINE, it will still work).
-0.0.2:
+The test files will be:
-- Making TMenu keyboard accelerators active/inactive
-- AWT:
- - Blinking cursor
- - Block cursor
-- ECMA48Backend running on socket
-- TTreeView
-- TDirectoryList
-- TFileOpen
-- Decide on naming convention: getText, getValue, getLabel: one or all
- of them?
-- Refactor:
- - TKeypress:
- - getCh() --> getChar()
- - getAlt/getCtrl/getShift --> isAltDown / isCtrlDown / isShiftDown
- - Other boolean getters --> isSomething
+- ```test/*.url``` : URL to download in text format, content = URL
+- ```test/*.story```: text mode story, content = story
-0.0.3:
-- TStatusBar
-- TEditor
+### Dependant libraries (included)
-0.0.4:
+Required:
-- Bugs
- - TSubMenu keyboard mnemonic not working
- - TDirectoryList cannot be navigated only with keyboard
- - TTreeView cannot be navigated only with keyboard
- - RangeViolation after dragging scrollbar up/down
+- ```libs/nikiroo-utils-sources.jar```: some shared utility functions
+- [```libs/unbescape-sources.jar```](https://github.com/unbescape/unbescape): a nice library to escape/unescape a lot of text formats; used here for HTML
+- [```libs/jsoup-sources.jar```](https://jsoup.org/): a library to parse HTML
+- [```libs/JSON-java-20190722-sources.jar```](https://github.com/stleary/JSON-java): a library to parse JSON
-0.1.0:
+Optional:
-- TWindow
- - "Smart placement" for new windows
+- [```libs/jexer-sources.jar```](https://github.com/klamonte/jexer): a small library that offers TUI widgets
+- [```pandoc```](http://pandoc.org/): to generate the man pages from the README files
-Wishlist features (2.0):
+Nothing else but Java 1.6+.
-- TTerminal
- - Handle resize events (pass to child process)
-- Screen
- - Allow complex characters in putCharXY() and detect them in putStrXY().
-- TComboBox
-- TListBox
-- TSpinner
-- TCalendar widget
-- TColorPicker widget
-- Drag and drop
- - TEditor
- - TField
- - TText
- - TTerminal
- - TComboBox
+Note that calling ```make libs``` will export the libraries into the src/ directory.
+## Author
-Screenshots
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-
-
-
-
+Fanfix was written by Niki Roo <niki@nikiroo.be>
git://git.nikiroo.be / fanfix.git / blobdiff