This crate is all about handling text consoles. Think XTerm, or a Powershell prompt on Windows. They have a regular grid of monospaced characters, where each character has a row number and a column number. There is a cursor, which indicates where any new text will be displayed. When the text is displayed, the cursor moves along. When text gets to the end of a row, the cursor pops down to the start of the next line, and so on.
We're so familiar with these terminals, we forget there's actually a fair amount of logic behind them. Especially when you consider ANSI Escape Codes.
This crate contains three basic traits, to help you add a console to your
#![no_std] Embedded Rust application.
- UnicodeConsole - for when your input/output devices have full Unicode
support and can produce/receive either
chars orUTF-8encoded bytes. - AsciiConsole - for when your input/output devices only speak in bytes, which have some unspecified (but ASCII compatible) encoding, like Code Page 437, or ISO8859-1.
- BaseConsole - the common functionality for both of the above
- We're working on full ANSI escape sequence support in the
ansi_supportbranch.
- Contains the proprietary single character escape sequences from Monotron.