CLI

An adaptive command line interface for both terminal and command prompt.

In Trivial.CommandLine namespace of Trivial.dll library.

Console

We provide an interface for the standard output stream that you can write a string which you can update before the line terminator. It supports both terminal and command prompt. Following is a sample.

var cli = StyleConsole.Default;
    
// Write something.
cli.Write("Loading {0}......", "something");

// Remove some charactors and add other string with color.
cli.Backspace(3);
cli.Write(ConsoleColor.Green, "  Done!");

// And you can append other string following above in the same line and in the default color.
cli.Write(" This is only for test.");

// Add terminator.
cli.Write(Environment.NewLine);

// So following will be in a new cli.
cli.Write("Next cli. ");

// We can turn off the auto flush so that all strings write later will be in an output queue.
cli.AutoFlush = false;
cli.Write(ConsoleColor.Red, ConsoleColor.Yellow, "Red foreground and yellow background");
cli.Write(Environment.NewLine);
cli.Write("This will not be output immediately, neither.");

// Now let's write them.
cli.Flush();

// Following will not output until we call Flush member method or set AutoFlush property as true.
cli.Write(" Hello?");
cli.AutoFlush = true;
cli.Write(Environment.NewLine);

And you can also read the password into a SecureString with the optional text mask.

// Read password.
cli.Write("Type password: ");
var password = cli.ReadPassword(ConsoleColor.Yellow, '*');
cli.WriteLine();

// Write a secure string to the standard output stream.
cli.Write("Your password is ");
cli.Write(ConsoleColor.Magenta, password.ToUnsecureString());
cli.WriteLine('.');