Console Prettify🎨 (alpha)

A simple tool for making good UI in C/C++ console applications on Windows with little effort.

How to Use 🖥️

Download or clone this repository. Copy prettify_functions.c and ConsolePrettify.h into your project folder and add #include "ConsolePrettify.h" in your C/C++ files.

Make sure the new files are correctly linked in your IDE/compiler.

Available Functions

Function	Description
`void prettify_textcolor(color)`	Changes the text color
`void prettify_print(text, color)`	Prints text at the screen center
`void prettify_textbox(specifier, variable, color)`	Displays an input field and reads user input
`void prettify_textbox_password(variable, mask, color)`	Displays an input field with masking eg. *****
`int prettify_menu(title, color, numOptions, ...)`	Displays a menu and returns the number of the selected option
`void prettify_olist_i(title, color, items)`	Displays an ordered list of integers
`void prettify_olist_f(title, color, items)`	Displays an ordered list of floats
`void prettify_olist_c(title, color, items)`	Displays an ordered list of characters
`void prettify_olist_s(title, color, items)`	Displays an ordered list of strings

NOTE: Please use prettify_textcolor() for all colored text in your program..

Available Colors 🌈

use any of these constants as the color arguments of prettify functions

Constant Name	Value
RED	12
GREEN	10
LIGHT_BLUE	11
YELLOW	6
LIGHT_YELLOW	14
BLUE	9
PURPLE	5
WHITE	15
CYAN	3
GRAY	7
DARK_GRAY	8

Examples

Textboxes:

int num;
char password[25];

printf("THIS IS A TEXTBOX");
prettify_textbox("%i", &num, YELLOW);

printf("\nTHIS IS A PASSWORD TEXTBOX");
prettify_textbox_password(password, '+', BLUE);

Menus

int choice = prettify_menu("Select an option", RED, 4,
                  "Buy bananas",
                  "Buy apple",
                  "Buy mango",
                  "Buy grapes");

Lists

char **people = {"Justin", "Kim", "Susan"};
prettify_list_ordered("List of People", GREEN, people);

TODO

Add automatic Table printing
Print to center

License

ConsolePrettify is MIT licensed.

CabTheProgrammer / ConsolePrettify