Gui.cs
Cross Platform Terminal UI toolkit for .NET (by gui-cs)
CliFx
Class-first framework for building command-line interfaces (by Tyrrrz)
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Gui.cs
Posts with mentions or reviews of Gui.cs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-07.
- Forget MAUI; Get TUI! - C#'s best cross platform console UI toolkit ships first 2.0 alpha package (Terminal.Gui)
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Hello everyone, I made a Windows 10/11 Multitool app with Winforms. I'm just gonna share some screenshots.
Thanks but I'm sticking with Terminal.Gui
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Made a simple text based little game to re-learn c#
Used this neat library to handle the GUI gui-cs/Terminal.Gui: Cross Platform Terminal UI toolkit for .NET (github.com)
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What your hidden nuget gems ?
Terminal.GUI - cross platform terminal UI for .NET: https://github.com/gui-cs/Terminal.Gui
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Textual (TUI framework) widget gallery
Two I've used are Terminal.Gui for .net https://github.com/gui-cs/Terminal.Gui and BubbleTea for Go https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea
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UI framework for games on Linux with c#
In that case you can use console (https://github.com/gui-cs/Terminal.Gui) to make games.
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Managing Powershell collections graphically
As you can see the tool is always integrated into the terminal because it has built on a cross platform UI toolkit based on a fantastic open source project called Terminal.Gui. Now you can select the objects by using space bar and than confirm the selection with enter. The result will be:
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What python/C# GUI library would be best for my project?
C# - https://github.com/gui-cs/Terminal.Gui
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c# native with a gui
Since you mentioned minimal GUI, have you thought of a TUI? I haven't spiked it out but I would guess Terminal.Gui would work with Native AOT
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GTK support for macOS is being worked on for those who want to create applications for macOS.
I've had to resort to make TUIs with https://github.com/gui-cs/Terminal.Gui because there's no sane way to make a GUI app in Linux without a 300-files boilerplate or obscure languages.
CliFx
Posts with mentions or reviews of CliFx.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-17.
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Simple Command line Project Helper (Would love feedback)
Is there any reason why I would use this over established projects like CliFx or CommandLineUtils?
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How to Develop an Interactive CLI with C# to Manage SendGrid Dynamic Email Templates
I used CliFx before and was already familiar with how fast you can develop a CLI. The fun part of this project was to make the CLI interactive by using the Sharprompt library.
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Developing and installing your own CLI with dotnet tool and CliFx NuGet package
CliFx GitHub repo
- TUIs
- .NET Myths Dispelled
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What's your favorite command line arg parser?
https://github.com/Tyrrrz/CliFx is super feature rich and easy to use.
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Have you ever played the #TicTacToe game? But through a REST API? 🤔 #CSharp
[1] https://github.com/Tyrrrz/CliFx/discussions/108
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Gui.cs and CliFx you can also consider the following projects:
spectre.console - A .NET library that makes it easier to create beautiful console applications.
Command Line Parser - The best C# command line parser that brings standardized *nix getopt style, for .NET. Includes F# support
CommandDotNet - A modern framework for building modern CLI apps
CsConsoleFormat - .NET C# library for advanced formatting of console output [Apache]
Power Args - The ultimate .NET Standard command line argument parser
CliWrap - Library for running command-line processes
CommandLineUtils - Command line parsing and utilities for .NET
Typin - Declarative framework for interactive CLI applications
Docopt - Port of docopt to .net