gui-cs/Terminal.Gui

Features

• Text User Interface Development - Provides a comprehensive toolkit for building interactive full-screen or inline console applications using .NET.
• Cross-Platform Console Tooling - Enables the development of command line utilities with a consistent visual experience across different platforms.
• Terminal Abstractions - Abstracts console operations through a driver layer to normalize escape sequences and cursor states across platforms.
• Element Focus Controllers - TUI system for controlling the navigation flow and focus movement between interactive elements.
• TUI Primitive Rendering - Renders text and colors to the terminal screen using a coordinate-based cursor and Unicode primitives.
• Wide-Character Formatting - Provides specialized text management for wide characters and CJK scripts to ensure correct formatting across languages.
• Double Buffering - Uses double-buffering to calculate frame differences and minimize flicker during terminal updates.
• Cross-Platform TUI Frameworks - Ensures a consistent user interface experience across Windows, macOS, and Linux terminal environments.
• Declarative Layout Frameworks - Implements a positioning framework using relative coordinates, anchors, and automatic sizing for terminal views.
• Element Positioning - Implements a declarative positioning system using absolute coordinates, percentages, and relative alignment.
• Flexible Layout Constraints - Provides a flexible positioning system featuring automatic sizing, centering, and anchoring for responsive elements.
• Focus Management - Controls keyboard focus and event propagation through a sequenced hierarchy of overlapping views.
• Form Input Controls - Provides a set of interactive input controls including validated text fields, checkboxes, and numeric steppers.
• Keyboard Command Mapping - Decouples physical keyboard and mouse events from application logic using a configurable command binding layer.
• Interactive UI Elements - Provides a composition system for building interfaces using interactive buttons, selectors, and message boxes.
• Terminal Widget Sets - Ships a comprehensive set of interactive console widgets, including data grids, hex editors, and tree components.
• Menus and Toolbars - Includes rendering for top-level menu bars, popup context menus, and application status bars.
• Modal Dialogs - Provides modal overlay components for user confirmations, file selection, and typed prompts.
• Modal Overlays - Provides a system for creating focused overlay elements such as modal windows, dialogs, and wizards.
• Relative Layout Rules - Implements a layout system using anchors and percentages to adapt interface elements to terminal resizing.
• Responsive Layout Adapters - Automatically resolves and adapts declarative element positions when the terminal window is resized.
• Scrollable Containers - Provides scrollable areas with horizontal and vertical bars for displaying content larger than the viewport.
• Terminal Rendering Engines - Provides a rendering engine that handles low-level console drivers, TrueColor support, and Sixel graphics.
• Low-Level Rendering Drivers - Manages low-level console operations including 24-bit TrueColor, Sixel images, and Unicode text formatting.
• .NET TUI Toolkits - Offers a cross-platform .NET framework for building interactive text-based user interfaces.
• Text Alignment - Provides comprehensive control over text direction and horizontal and vertical alignment within components.
• UI Session Stacks - Tracks active interface states using a session stack to manage modal transitions and sequential navigation.
• UI Styling - Offers a framework for customizing the appearance of interface components using colors, schemes, and gradients.
• Layout Containers - Organizes interface views using overlapped windows, bordered frames, and tabbed containers.
• Interactive Command Line Interfaces - Supports the design of guided user experiences including multi-step wizards, modal dialogs, and complex input forms.
• Global Hotkey Managers - Allows assigning key combinations to activate UI elements regardless of the current focus.
• Command Binding Systems - Binds platform-independent key combinations to specific application commands across different focus scopes.
• Blocking View Sessions - Allows running a specific view as a blocking session that returns a type-safe result to the caller.
• Box-Drawing Glyphs - Provides an engine for automatic glyph selection to render complex borders, corners, and junctions.
• Gradient Renderers - Implements smooth color transitions and fill patterns for borders and backgrounds.
• TUI Application Shortcuts - Supports global key combinations that trigger actions across the application regardless of focused views.
• Configurable Key-to-Command Mappings - Provides a system for mapping specific keys to application commands across operating systems via configuration.
• Tree View Components - Implements a hierarchical tree renderer with support for expandable branches and dynamic node loading.
• Application Lifecycle Management - Provides tools to manage the full operational lifecycle of a console application from startup to cleanup.
• JSON Configuration Schemas - Uses structured JSON files to persist and load visual themes, key bindings, and user preferences.
• Application Configuration - Provides a system for loading and persisting application preferences from JSON, environment variables, and resources.
• Multi-Application Coordination - Implements a manager to coordinate multiple isolated application instances within a single process.
• Terminal Cursor Controllers - Decouples the visible terminal cursor from the internal rendering position.
• Data Grids - Provides a high-performance tabular data display supporting infinite scrolling and customizable data sources.
• Data Tables - Provides interactive components for rendering, sorting, and filtering structured data in a tabular format.
• File Dialogs - Provides standardized modal interfaces for opening and saving files from the local filesystem.
• Dynamic View Management - Enables users to dynamically move, resize, and overlap interface views in real time.
• Event Handling - Provides mechanisms for capturing and responding to low-level keyboard key down and key up events.
• Terminal Image Renderers - Implements support for the Sixel protocol to display images within terminal interfaces.
• File System Browsers - Includes a TUI file browser with search, filtering, and custom icon support for system navigation.
• Data Visualizations - Implements a charting and graphing system capable of rendering large datasets with integrated sorting.
• Inline Rendering Modes - Implements a display mode that renders the interface within the primary shell scrollback buffer instead of full-screen.
• Input Bindings - Defines keyboard shortcuts that adapt based on the operating system to meet platform-specific user expectations.
• Layout Decorations - Supports the addition of borders, margins, and padding to control the visual boundaries of UI elements.
• Menu Components - Implements horizontal and vertical command bars with shortcuts to trigger application actions.
• Mouse Event Handlers - Implements event processing for mouse clicks and hovers using viewport-relative coordinates.
• Independent Navigation Stacks - Tracks active interface states using a session stack to manage modal transitions and navigation.
• Focus Movement Systems - TUI centralized navigation system controlling focus movement via configurable tab stops and groups.
• Popover Overlays - Implements temporary overlay views that can host content and return typed results to the calling view.
• Guided Workflows - Implements guided workflows that organize complex user interactions into a sequence of navigable steps.
• Rich Text Renderers - Provides a read-only content display that renders Markdown, tables, and code blocks within the terminal.
• Selection Components - Ships a suite of selection tools including dropdown lists, multi-choice selectors, and range sliders.
• Driver Discovery Systems - TUI registry system that identifies compatible terminal drivers to ensure cross-platform support.
• Terminal Data Visualizations - Implements graphical views for rendering numerical data series and annotations using text-based graphics.
• Full Screen Modes - Allows toggling the user interface between a full-screen mode and an inline scrolling mode.
• Text Editing Components - Provides a high-performance text entry component supporting Unicode, clipboard operations, and undo/redo functionality.
• True Color Support - Supports 24-bit RGB color rendering with automatic fallbacks for older terminal emulators.
• Hexadecimal Editors - Ships a binary stream viewer component that displays data in hexadecimal format alongside printable characters.
• View Alignment Systems - Arranges multiple views horizontally or vertically using consistent spacing and alignment modes.
• Viewport Managers - Manages the viewport location to reveal content that exceeds the visible screen area.
• Visual Theme Configurations - Provides a system for applying and persisting visual themes and styles across user sessions.
• Project Documentation Examples - Features a hero animation and cross-platform tagline.
• TUI Libraries - Cross-platform .NET TUI toolkit.

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