fentext-ui

fentext-ui is a lightweight, opinionated Rust library designed for building responsive, real-time, action based, text-based games.

✨ Features

Cursor Control: Easily move the cursor to any screen coordinate.
Write Text: Write text dynamically to the terminal.
Non-Blocking Gamepad-Style Input: Poll for directional presses and action buttons without freezing your game loop.
Automatic Terminal Cleanup: Safely restores the terminal state on exit.

🕹️ Why `fentext-ui`?

If you're looking to craft a fast, responsive, and truly fentextic 😉 UI for your next ASCII art adventure or terminal-based roguelike, fentext-ui provides the functionality you need. Built as a thin, opinionated wrapper around the excellent crossterm library.

🚀 Getting Started

Add fentext-ui to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
fentext-ui = "0.1.0"

About Contributions

This is an open source project with a single copyright holder. While the code is publicly available under LICENSE, I am not accepting external contributions at this time.

You are welcome to:

Use the code according to the license terms
Fork the project for your own use, following the license terms
Report issues
Provide feedback
Share the project

If you have suggestions or find bugs, please feel free to open an issue for discussion. While I cannot accept pull requests, I value your feedback and engagement with the project.

Thank you for your understanding and interest in the project! 🙏

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.