Consolonia

Consolonia

This package is meta package for building Consolonia applications.

Background

Consolonia is a TUI (Text User Interface) (GUI Framework) implementation for Avalonia UI

Supports XAML, data bindings, animation, styling and the rest from Avalonia.

Showcase (click picture to see video)

Usage

Define an application with a theme (See Consolonia.Themes.TurboVision for themes)

Define a Window

HelloWorldWindow.axaml

<Window xmlns="https://github.com/avaloniaui"
        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
        x:Class="HelloWorldWindow">
    <TextBlock Text="Hello World" />
</Window>

## Define an application 
You need to define an application that defines a theme and sets the main window.

HelloWorldApp.cs
```csharp
// use HelloWorldWindow as the MainWindow for the application
public class HelloWorldApp : ConsoloniaApplication
{
    public override void Initialize()
    {
        // set the theme
        Styles.Add(new MaterialTheme());
    }
}

Setup program.cs

Program.cs

[STAThread]
private static void Main(string[] args)
{
    BuildAvaloniaApp()
        .StartWithConsoleLifetime(args);
}

public static AppBuilder BuildAvaloniaApp()
    => AppBuilder.Configure()
        .UseConsolonia()
        .UseAutoDetectedConsole()
        .LogToException();