//Writes colored text to the console and allows to clear previously written lines
//as long a not line break is present //Sample - screenshot at http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/3931/consolex.png C.InfoLine("Non-colored text..."); C.Error("Outch, an error.");
Thread.CurrentThread.Join();
C.ClearLine();
C.Warn("Ok, only a warning.");
Thread.CurrentThread.Join();
C.ClearLine();
C.SuccessLine("OK."); C.InfoColor = ConsoleColor.Blue;
C.InfoLine("I'm feeling blue"); /* ********************************************************** */ /// <summary>
/// Console helper class.
/// </summary>
public static class C
{
/// <summary>
/// The color that is used to print out errors to the console.
/// </summary>
public static ConsoleColor ErrorColor = ConsoleColor.Red; /// <summary>
/// The color that is used to print out warnings to the console.
/// </summary>
public static ConsoleColor WarningColor = ConsoleColor.Yellow; /// <summary>
/// The color that is used to print out infos to the console.
/// </summary>
public static ConsoleColor SuccessColor = ConsoleColor.Green; /// <summary>
/// The color that is used to print out infos to the console.
/// If set to null, the current console color is used.
/// </summary>
public static ConsoleColor? InfoColor; public static void ErrorLine(string msg, params object[] args)
{
WriteLine(ErrorColor, msg, args);
} public static void Error(string msg, params object[] args)
{
Write(ErrorColor, msg, args);
} public static void WarnLine(string msg, params object[] args)
{
WriteLine(WarningColor, msg, args);
} public static void Warn(string msg, params object[] args)
{
Write(WarningColor, msg, args);
} public static void InfoLine(string msg, params object[] args)
{
WriteLine(InfoColor ?? Console.ForegroundColor, msg, args);
} public static void Info(string msg, params object[] args)
{
Write(InfoColor ?? Console.ForegroundColor, msg, args);
} public static void SuccessLine(string msg, params object[] args)
{
WriteLine(SuccessColor, msg, args);
} public static void Success(string msg, params object[] args)
{
Write(SuccessColor, msg, args);
} /// <summary>
/// Clears the current line.
/// </summary>
public static void ClearLine()
{
var position = Console.CursorLeft; //overwrite with white space (backspace doesn't really clear the buffer,
//would need a hacky combination of \b\b and single whitespace)
Console.SetCursorPosition(, Console.CursorTop);
Console.Write("".PadRight(position));
Console.SetCursorPosition(, Console.CursorTop);
} public static void Write(string msg, params object[] args)
{
Console.Write(msg, args);
} public static void WriteLine(ConsoleColor color, string msg, params object[] args)
{
Write(color, msg, args);
Console.Out.WriteLine();
} public static void Write(ConsoleColor color, string msg, params object[] args)
{
try
{
Console.ForegroundColor = color;
Console.Write(msg, args);
}
finally
{
Console.ResetColor();
}
} }