Manim Code Blocks Redux

manim-code-blocks-redux is a library for Manim that allows animating blocks of code in Manim videos and scenes.

Example Usage

from manim import *
from manim_code_blocks import *

class Main(Scene):

    def construct(self):

        java = CodeBlock(
            """
            public class Main {
                public static void main(String[] args) {
                    System.out.println("Hello world");
                }
            }
            """,
            language = Java
        )

        self.play(*java.create(run_time = 3))

Outputs:

Problems & Limitations

Limited Language Support

Currently only the following languages are supported for syntax highlighting:

• C
• C#
• C++
• Java
• JavaScript
• Lua
• Go
• Python
• Rust
• TypeScript

To add language support, submit a pull request to to the tokenize_all_code module.

Unintelligent Highlighting

Manim-Code-Block uses syntax highlighting, not semantic highlighting. The source code is only tokenized, not parsed, and as such accurate highlighting can be impossible for certain circumstances. Syntax highlighting is provided by the tokenize_all_code module, which lacks thorough language support. Additionally many languages have not been thoroughly tested enough for accurate highlighting. If you find an issue in your syntax highlighting, please report it to the issues thread.

Lack of Themes

Currently the only theme supported out of the box is the One Dark Pro theme from Atom and used in Visual Studio Code. Adding a custom theme is possible (and simple), however currently this is the only theme supported out of the box.