Crate win32console

Provides a mechanism for interact with the windows console

This library implements most of the methods in:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/console/console-functions

Example

Here a quick example of how WinConsole can be use, as you can see we don't cache the WinConsole, we use WinConsole::output or WinConsole::input to ensure a call to get_std_handle and get a fresh handle each time due we can't know when set_std_handle could be call.

use win32console::console::WinConsole;
use win32console::input::*;

fn main() {
    // Virtual key codes
    // https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/inputdev/virtual-key-codes
    const ESCAPE : u16 = 0x1B;
    const BACKSPACE: u16 = 0x08;
    const ENTER : u16 = 0x0D;
    const SPACE : u16 = 0x20;

    loop{
        // Get the current input event
        if let KeyEvent(key) = WinConsole::input().read_single_input().unwrap(){
            // Only check for key down events
            if key.key_down{
                let char_value = key.u_char;
                // Write only if is alphanumeric or punctuation
                if char_value.is_ascii_alphanumeric() || char_value.is_ascii_punctuation(){
                    let mut value : [u8; 1] = [0];
                    char_value.encode_utf8(&mut value);
                    WinConsole::output().write_utf8(&value);
                }
                else{
                    match key.virtual_key_code {
                        ESCAPE => { break; },
                        ENTER => { WinConsole::output().write_utf8("\n".as_bytes()); }
                        SPACE => { WinConsole::output().write_utf8(" ".as_bytes()); },
                        BACKSPACE => { WinConsole::output().write_utf8(b"\x08 \x08"); },
                        _ => {}
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

Modules

console	Provides the WinConsole that wraps calls to native methods to interact with the console.
input	Includes the basic input structs.
structs	Includes console related structs as ConsoleColor, CharInfo or ConsoleCursorInfo.