Spritely Spritely is a simple grid-based animation framework with a text mode. It was written for an introductory OO programming course. See The Javadocs for a description of Spritely. See The Github Repository for releases, source code, etc.

This package provides a framework for showing an animated grid of equal-size tiles, which is a limited form of sprite animation. It was written for educational purposes in an introductory OO class. It has a few unique features:

• It strives to be as simple as possible, so as to not overload students with language features, unfamiliar idioms, or complex code to read through.
• It does not force the student to do all their work via callbacks, as is typical for GUIs. The student is presented with a single-threaded model, where they ask the frame to display each animation frame.
• It allows programs to be run in text mode, using character-based graphics. This allows students to do their development on a remote server via ssh, so they don't have to do system administration on their personal computer, like installing a Java environment, setting the CLASSPATH, or installing an X server.
• It restricts the user to equal-sized tiles. This is more or less necessary to enable character mode.
• It handles the needed logic to maintain a given frame rate. It handles the case where a program is suspended and woken back up, by moving the notion of time forward.
• It features simple callbacks for mouse clicks and key typed events, and it simulates these events in text mode.

See The Javadocs for full documentation.