Use asciinema for demo in readme.md

[kmahajan-cadfem]

📝 Description of the feature

Using a gif is a great idea to show the functionality of the cli tools.
another great way is to use the asciinema.
This is a great help in user growth.

💡 Steps for implementing the feature

• replace current GIF with the asciinema link

🔗 Useful links and references

https://asciinema.org

[jorgepiloto]

Hi @kmahajan-cadfem, this is a great suggestion. We considered using this tool some time ago. However, we decided to go with VHS. The reason is that this last tool allows to store the commands in plain text, allowing us to track everything in the VCS.

[jorgepiloto]

However, the font size looks small in the current Gif. Would you like to improve it?

[kmahajan-cadfem]

@jorgepiloto, VHS looks good as well, since this is not a lot of code to type in terminal, it is fine if user cannot copy it.
I will look into the Font size, is it fine if I directly use VHS, or you should I create a GIF in first case.

[jorgepiloto]

What I did some time ago was to create the VHS script. Later, I rendered it into a Gif. Both files are stored in the "_static" directory of the documentation, see:

• https://github.com/ansys/ansys-templates/blob/main/doc/source/_static/basic_usage.tape
• https://github.com/ansys/ansys-templates/blob/main/doc/source/_static/basic_usage.gif

[kmahajan-cadfem]

@jorgepiloto, seems like you would have to change the Font yourself, unfortunately I tried to do it on windows machine(only have that option),

• have to change the clear commands to cls and also prompt has the path (would take much efforts on my side, just to change the font size)
• output is not so nice as one can see in the current GIF
• if you want to implement the GH action afterwards, windows based commands are not a good idea.