Prompt

Prompt is the last commandline framework you will ever need for developing Objective-C commandline applications. It uses a setup similiar to how OS X and iOS apps are built.

Setup

Add Prompt to your project, via pod or whatevs. Just be sure to link against the static lib. Then we just have a few files to setup.

main.m

// Main.m

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
#import <Prompt/Prompt.h>
#import "YourAppDelegate.h"

int main(int argc, const char *argv[])
{

    @autoreleasepool
    {
        return PromptApplicationMain(NSStringFromClass([YourAppDelegate class]));
    }

    return 0;
}

AppDelegate.h

// YourAppDelegate.h

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
#import <Prompt/PromptApplicationDelegate.h>

@interface ExampleAppDelegate : NSObject<PromptApplicationDelegate>
@end

AppDelegate.m

#import <Prompt/PromptOption.h>
#import <Prompt/PromptInput.h>
#import <Prompt/PromptFlag.h>
#import <Prompt/PromptTerminal.h>
#import <Prompt/PromptAttributedString.h>

@implementation ExampleAppDelegate

- (NSArray *)optionsForApplication:(Prompt *)application
{
    PromptOption *hello = [PromptOption promptOptionWithCommand:@"hello" helpText:@"Hello world?" handler:^(NSDictionary *arguments) {
        
        PromptAttributedString *string = [[PromptAttributedString alloc] initWithString:@"Hello World!"];
        [string addAttribute:PromptColorBlue range:NSMakeRange(0, 4)];
        
        PromptPrintLine(string);
    }];
    
    PromptFlag *a = [PromptFlag promptFlagWithName:@"AAAA" definition:@"All As" flags:@[@"f", @"foo"]];
    PromptFlag *b = [PromptFlag promptFlagWithName:@"BBBB" definition:@"All Bs" flags:@[@"h"]];
    
    hello.flags = @[a, b];

    return @[hello];
}

- (BOOL)application:(Prompt *)application runningOptions:(NSArray *)options
{
    return YES;
}

@end

Documentation

The headers are well documented and should be compatible with AppleDoc.

To Do

Ability to generate Help contenxt.

If you need me

License

Read LICENSE file for more info.

wess / Prompt