I've left the SPECTRE_CONSOLE_DEBUG env var in there because I found it easier to visualize the dimensions of the sixel data and how they lined up to character cells positioning. When you set that it will render a canvas checkerboard overtop of the sixel data.

I used cursor-right control codes to simulate transparent pixels in the canvas which breaks the snapshot tests for canvas rendering. Using those characters could be only under sixel rendering circumstances but I'm not sure how @patriksvensson wanted to reorganize this so they're still broken atm.

I'll take a look at this asap

I think there might be opportunities for some interesting use cases for the Sixel output independent of ImageSharp. Might be cool if the parsing and building of the ansi was part of Spectre.Console itself with the code to convert an ImageSharp frame being the only code with dependencies on ImageSharp.

@phil-scott-78 Yes, that was my initial idea as well, but quickly realized that it's a pretty daunting task without a library behind it. Open to refactor it out later, and make it available without the ImageSharp library, but for now I think it's ok.

FYI I noticed an issue using this approach in layouts. Because the Sixel data is drawn before the top left of the canvas when it draws the Sixel it can extend below the bottom of the window and scroll the layout which breaks the rendering if the image is taller than the available space in the layout.

I tried shifting the sixel to render after the Canvas so that if the whole canvas can't fit inside a layout it would never output the sixel data but it's pretty janky ShaunLawrie#1

Could such a feature allow us to add "previews" to our SelectionPrompts?

eg. From the site's example

// Ask for the user's favorite fruit
var fruit = AnsiConsole.Prompt(
    new SelectionPrompt<string>()
        .Title("What's your [green]favorite fruit[/]?")
        .PageSize(10)
        .MoreChoicesText("[grey](Move up and down to reveal more fruits)[/]")
        .AddChoices(new[] {
            "Apple", "Apricot", "Avocado", 
            "Banana", "Blackcurrant", "Blueberry",
            "Cherry", "Cloudberry", "Cocunut",
        }));

// Echo the fruit back to the terminal
AnsiConsole.WriteLine($"I agree. {fruit} is tasty!");

Can we expect to be able to preview each fruit as a sixel image in the future?

Wouldn't it be better to leverage some sort of framebuffer in between and then render it after it gets drawn?
If so maybe use https://github.com/romero126/PSConsoleGL instead? (Its my repo but aligns pretty good here)

@romero126 Great idea but we don't take any dependencies for this library except ones that we control directly.