An abstraction over System.Console that adds new input and output methods, colors and advanced outputs like progress bars and menus. And everything is ansi supported so it works on legacy systems and terminals.
- 🚀 High performance, Low memory usage and optimized to reduce GC overhead.
- 🪶 Very lightweight (No external dependencies)
- 🔌 Plug and play (most of the time you don't need to change your code much)
- 💾 Supports legacy ansi terminals (like Windows 7)
- ✂ Trimming friendly (documented trim warnings and working alternatives for everything)
- Supports all platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac)
- ⛓ Uses original output pipes, so that your cli's can be piped properly.
If you have any other suggestions or feature requests, please open an issue on GitHub
To keep build pipelines simple, since version 1.5.2, the new packages will only be available in Nuget.
- Nuget
The most convenient way to use this package is to add this using statement: using static PrettyConsole.Console;
Then use most of the default method signatures such as Write, WriteLine, ReadLine and so on, conveniently they are named exactly the same as the regular C# counterparts.
For more information about these methods and additional ones, check the Wiki.
PrettyConsole uses an equation inspired syntax to colorize text. The syntax is as follows:
WriteLine("Test" * Color.Red / Color.Blue);i.e TEXT * FOREGROUND / BACKGROUND
Any the 2 colors can be played with just like a real equation, omit the foreground and the default will be used, same goes for the background.
from the point of public release, the master branch will only contain stable and tested code, so to get the source code you can clone the master branch.