# TomaszRewak/C-sharp-console-gui-framework

A GUI framework for C# console applications

Repository: https://github.com/TomaszRewak/C-sharp-console-gui-framework
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/c-sharp-console-gui-framework
Language: C#
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: console, gui, framework, terminal, tui
Last push: 2024-04-24T15:34:24+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2582, "days_push": 861, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1107, forks 48 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:36.625849+00:00)

## What it is
ConsoleGUI is a layout-driven .NET framework for building console-based GUI (TUI) applications in C#. It provides layout managers like stack and dock panels plus basic controls, similar in spirit to WPF or HTML rather than coordinate-based UI toolkits.

## Use cases
- build a text-based UI for a C# console app
- create a terminal dashboard with panels and grids
- render interactive layouts in a console window without manual redraws
- make a TUI chess board or grid display in .NET
- add colored, layout-managed controls to a command-line tool

## When to choose
- you want a WPF-like, layout-driven TUI in .NET
- you need a dependency-free library targeting .NET Standard 2.0
- you want automatic UI updates without manual redraw calls

## When to avoid
- you need a thread-safe UI framework
- you target platforms beyond Windows and Linux consoles
- you need rich prebuilt widgets beyond basic controls

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: stable
- function: gui, terminal-ui, ui-components, frontend-framework
- domain: developer-tools, cross-platform
- platform: cross-platform, windows, dotnet, cli
- tags: tui, console-gui, layout-driven, csharp, netstandard, command-line, linux

## Member repositories
- TomaszRewak/C-sharp-console-gui-framework (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:36.625849+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:44:01.168042+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/TomaszRewak/C-sharp-console-gui-framework (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:36.625849+00:00, sha 7f71fcd4833a)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.