PromptPlus 5.0.0

Welcome to PromptPlus

The best tool to Interactive command-line toolkit for .NET Core with powerful controls and commands to create professional console applications. PromptPlus was developed in C# with the .NET 8, .NET 9, .NET 10 target frameworks. All controls input/filter using GNU Readline Emacs keyboard shortcuts.

PromptPlus Supports 4/8/24-bit colors in the terminal with auto-detection of the current terminal's capabilities and automatic color conversion.

Visit the official page for complete documentation of PromptPlus

What's new in V5.0.0

We're very excited about the big release of this new version. Version 5 has been completely redesigned and optimized for better stability, consistency, and performance. All controls and behaviors have been revisited and improved to ensure sustainable evolution. Due to the significant modifications, version 5 introduced significant changes and is incompatible with versions 4.x, although the concepts and components are very similar, requiring a small learning curve and minor methodological adjustments.

• PromptPlus has more than 37! controls/widgets
• Support for .Net10,.Net9 and .Net8
• External references were reviewed and only those necessary for size treatment for East Asian characters were used.
• New control rendering engine adjusts more fluidly to the screen size and avoids flickering by redrawing only the changed lines.
• Revised control of hotkeys and special characters ensuring consistency according to the console's capabilities.
• Created the separation of interactive controls and added several non-interactive controls (widgets)
• Renaming several control methods for better clarity and reduced scope, aiming at the unique responsibility that each component intends to perform, allowing for sustainable evolution.
• Revised concept of an editing window for controls that require a significant input/response size , ensuring visual consistency and adequate navigability.
• A slice architecture was adopted for each component, allowing individual evolution of each one with low interference to the others.
• All interative controls start at : PromptPlus.Controls.<name of control>.
  • All initialization contracts have been standardized: PromptPlus.Controls.<name of control>(string prompt = "", string? description = null).
• All no interative controls start at : PromptPlus.Widgets.<name of control>.
  • For each non-interactive control the initialization contract was customized.
• All commands for console start at : PromptPlus.Console.<command>.
• All general config start at : PromptPlus.Config.<config>.
• NEW tooltip mechanism: Now shows all keys and hotkeys for each control by switching the view ('F1').
• NEW controls group: Remote sources.This control group is in the experimental phase and addresses the scenario of resolving the domain set of collections from an external source (e.g., database, cloud, API with pagination).
  • Remote Select for any type
  • Remote Multi Select for any type
  • Remote Nodetree select for any type
  • Remote Nodetree Multi select for any type
• New console state preservation with capability to manipulate the console Ctrl+C / Ctrl+Break.
• NEW multi-threaded operation for controls and commands. Now each command and control block the main thread during printing/interaction execution.
• NEW external file config 'PromptPlus.config' to customize global behaviors of PromptPlus without code changes.

Supported platforms

• Windows
  • Command Prompt, PowerShell, Windows Terminal
• Linux (Ubuntu, etc)
  • Windows Terminal (WSL 2)
• macOS
  • Terminal.app

License

Copyright 2025 @ Fernando Cerqueira

PromptPlus is licensed under the MIT license.