migueldeicaza/gui.cs

Features

• Terminal Interfaces - A collection of buttons, checkboxes, menus and data tables for rendering high-fidelity terminal displays.
• Cross-Platform TUI Frameworks - A complete framework for creating interactive text-based user interfaces that run across multiple operating systems.
• Terminal User Interfaces - Provides a comprehensive framework for building interactive, cross-platform text-based user interfaces.
• .NET Libraries - Provides a specialized console-based UI library implemented specifically for the .NET ecosystem.
• TUI Tooling Frameworks - Provides the architectural foundation for building professional terminal tools with structured view hierarchies.
• Terminal UI Frameworks - A declarative framework for building interactive command-line interfaces using component-based architectures.
• Component-Based UI Libraries - Offers a comprehensive library of reusable interface elements like buttons and tables.
• Composition Hierarchies - Organizes the user interface as a tree of nested visual elements and parent-child relationships.
• View Hierarchies - Organizes terminal views using a structured hierarchy to manage nesting and positioning.
• Constraint Layout Engines - Implements a layout system that calculates component geometry based on dynamic hierarchical constraints.
• Layout Engines - Implements a constraint-based layout engine to organize terminal interface elements.
• Input Control Mappings - Provides a system for mapping keyboard shortcuts and input events to internal application actions.
• Responsive Layouts - Ensures terminal layouts automatically adapt to various window dimensions using a responsive engine.
• Terminal Layout Engines - Implements a system for composing responsive terminal interfaces using hierarchical widgets and sizing rules.
• UI Widgets - Provides a library of reusable components including buttons, checkboxes, menus, and markdown viewers.
• UI Theme Customization - Allows modification of colors and key bindings to create a consistent and persistable look.
• File System Navigators - Provides an interface for browsing directories and searching files with filtered views and visual icons.
• Screen Buffers - Maintains an internal screen buffer to minimize flickering by calculating minimal updates during redraws.
• Cross-Platform Deployment Targets - Ensures consistent operational behavior and interface rendering across diverse operating systems.
• Guided Workflow Design - Includes tools for designing multi-step wizards and guided input processes using menus and checkboxes.
• High-Volume Data Rendering - Renders high volumes of data in tables and tree views using sorting and filtering for performance.
• Data Visualizations - Provides high-fidelity color support to render charts and progress indicators for displaying complex information sets.
• Keyboard Command Mapping - Provides a system to map physical key presses to internal application commands for decoupled business logic.
• Interface Themes - Includes state-driven theme configurations for managing persistent visual styles and color schemes.
• Guided Workflows - Includes tools for designing multi-step wizards and guided input processes.
• Terminal Data Visualizations - Renders complex data and system states using text-based graphics, tables, and indicators.
• Text Editing Components - Includes specialized UI widgets for text rendering and buffer management with clipboard and undo support.
• Theme Configuration Systems - Features a centralized system for managing visual consistency and persistable theme configurations.
• CLI Tools - Terminal UI toolkit for .NET.
• Dotnet CLI Frameworks - Toolkit for building console-based user interfaces.

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