Console Forms

Hi guys, I'm trying to find a way to make a console program that would kinda work like a windows program, no need for the mouse just keyboard inputs where I can go up and down on text boxes and maybe a menu, but not necessarely is there any tutorials or just a general idea on how it would work?

thanks

You probably can't do that without some of your own programming. I wrote a complete set of those sort of functions (including popup boxes and such) that worked in DOS using Turbo Pascal some 15-20 years ago.

It would probably be possible to use ncurses or pdcurses to solve the problem with only a little bit of effort.

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Mats

Catch the KeyDown event and set control focus, maybe?

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Originally Posted by Magos

Catch the KeyDown event and set control focus, maybe?

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No, the original poster wants to have "forms" in a console program, not a windows program that behaves like a console program. (Unless I got it all wrong)

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Mats

Hey, do not lure the poor OP into some bad habits. Short answer: there is no way. Consoles were not made for that kind of purpose.
If you to use a real GUI (textboxes and yada, yada), then learn to do so instead of trying to hack the console or sitting hours trying to figure out ways around it.

Short answer: Make your own custom console form.

I'm more then willing to make a custom console form, I just dont know where to start, I kinda got an idea but not really, even if I were to know in C++ I then can move it into c#

I have made custom consoles before, but not using .NET. Otherwise I would email you some code. Derive a class from the regular text input class (I forget what its called in .NET-ese) and work up from there. You will find this is much easier to do in C# than C++.