Drexel.Terminal

A more powerful C# console API.

Description

Typically, C# code interacts with the console using the System.Console class. System.Console was designed for ease-of-use, and does not expose many commonly desired console features (ex. color, writing regions of text, mouse support, etc). Drexel.Terminal is intended for these more advances console uses.

Features

• Supports console mouse input (if the target platform supports it)
• Supports console colors
• Supports performantly writing blocks of characters
• Event-driven architecture using System.IObserver<T>

Getting Started

1. Add a reference to the Drexel.Terminal.* NuGet package for your target platform:

• Drexel.Terminal.Win32, to target the Windows Win32 Console API.
• Drexel.Terminal.Ansi, to target multi-platform ANSI escape codes.

2. Use TerminalInstance.GetInstanceAsync(...) to retrieve a TerminalInstance
3. Use the TerminalInstance. If you'd like, you can also leverage:

• Drexel.Terminal.Text, so that you don't need to convert System.Strings to character arrays with your bare hands
• Drexel.Terminal.Layout, to create GUI-like applications