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.

Copyright (c) 2025 Peter Bjorklund. All rights reserved.