Terminal Gui Designer

[tznind]

2022-06-18
Update adds support for multi selection. Although currently the only operations that support multi select are delete and moving views with keyboard (Shift+Cursor).

2022-05-08
Latest progress includes adding support for designing MenuBar instances.

2022-04-22
Made quite a lot more progress on this. Still a lot of stuff to implement but thought I'd update since its come quite a way since this first post.

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I've pushed a version 1.0.5 to nuget which you can install as a CLI tool with:

dotnet tool install --global TerminalGuiDesigner

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I've started exploring writing a tool like the Windows Forms Designer for gui.cs. I've gotten some basics done using CodeDom for C# code generation (saving) and Roslyn for loading. I had a look and didn't see any existing designers but let me know if there are any already.

There's a lot to do but thought I'd show what I had done so far. The repo is https://github.com/tznind/TerminalGuiDesigner .

[BDisp]

That's very cool @tznind. Someday it will be very easy creating a Terminal.Gui app.

[tznind]

Added support for dragging into different container views. Now I probably need a way to do the same with the keyboard, I'd like to maintain usability with keyboard only if possible.

Dragging into different containers then hammering undo/redo

[tig]

This is beyond amazeballs. Can't wait to get real Internet connectivity so I can try it!

[tznind]

Thanks! I'd be really grateful to hear your feedback on usability and any issues.

I think theres some more work to make sure its fully bulletproof but once its at that stage it would be great if we could add a link to it from the Terminal.Gui readme to help with discoverability if thats appropriate.