PowerConsole 1.0.0

PowerConsole

Makes strongly-typed user input collection and validation through the Console easier, and adds more useful utility methods to it.

The SmartConsole class is the blueprint that provides the core functionality.

Getting started

using System;
using PowerConsole;

namespace PowerConsoleTest
{
    class Program
    {
        internal static readonly SmartConsole MyConsole = SmartConsole.Default;

        static void Main()
        {
            MyConsole.SetForegroundColor(ConsoleColor.Green)
                .WriteLine("Welcome to the Power Console Demo!\n")
                .WriteLine($"Project:\t {nameof(PowerConsole)}")
                .WriteLine("Version:\t 1.0.0")
                .WriteLine("Description:\t Makes strongly-typed user input collection and validation through ")
                .WriteLine("\t\t a console easier. This is a Console on steroids.")
                .WriteLine("Author:\t\t Abdourahamane Kaba")
                .WriteLine("License:\t MIT")
                .WriteLine("Copyright:\t (c) 2020 Karfamsoft\n")
                .RestoreForegroundColor();

            if (!MyConsole.PromptNo("Would you like to define a specific culture for this session? (yes/No) "))
            {
                // try to set user-defined culture
                try
                {
                    MyConsole.Write("\nEnter a culture name to use, like ")
                        .WriteList(ConsoleColor.Blue, ", ", "en", "en-us", "fr", "fr-ca", "de").WriteLine(", etc.")
                        .WriteLine("Leave empty if you wish to use your computer's current culture.\n")
                        .Write("Culture name: ")
                        .SetResponse(culture => MyConsole.SetCulture(culture));
                }
                catch (System.Globalization.CultureNotFoundException ex)
                {
                    MyConsole.WriteError(ex);
                }
            }

            PlayFizzBuzz();
        }

        private static void PlayFizzBuzz()
        {
            MyConsole.WriteInfo("\nWelcome to FizzBuzz!\nTo quit the loop enter 0.\n\n");

            double? number;
            const string validationMessage = "Only numbers, please! ";

            while ((number = MyConsole.GetResponse<double?>("Enter a number: ", validationMessage)) != 0)
            {
                // Writes out:
                //  "FizzBuzz" if the input is divisible both by 3 and 5
                //  "Buzz" if divisible by 3 only
                //  "Fizz" if divisible by 5 only
                if (number == null) continue;
                if ((number % 3 == 0) && (number % 5 == 0))
                {
                    MyConsole.WriteLine("FizzBuzz");
                }
                else if (number % 3 == 0)
                {
                    MyConsole.WriteLine("Buzz");
                }
                else if (number % 5 == 0)
                {
                    MyConsole.WriteLine("Fizz");
                }
                else
                {
                    MyConsole.WriteLine(number);
                }
            }

            Goodbye("\nThank you for playing FizzBuzz. Goodbye!\n\n");
        }

        private static void Goodbye(string message = null)
        {
            // say goodbye and clean up
            MyConsole.WriteSuccess(message ?? "Goodbye!\n\n")
                .Repeat(15, "{0}{1}", "o-", "=-")
                .WriteLine("o\n")
                .Clear();
        }
    }
}