WizardWrx.ConsoleAppAids3 Microsoft .NET Class Llibrary

The following sections summarize the classes in the library. To use any of them, add a reference to WizardWrx.ConsoleAppAids3.dll to your project, and add a using directive WizardWrx.ConsoleAppAids3 to any source file in which you want ready access to its classes.

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• ConsoleAppStateManager is an WizardWrx.DLLServices2.StateManager adapter, which exposes the adapted object through its read only BaseStateManager property, and extends it with methods that provide services applicable exclusively to character mode (console mode) programs, such as looking after the logo and shutdown messages, and keeping track of elapsed running time for inclusion in the final message. WizardWrx.DLLServices2.StateManager, itself, exposes many useful properties, such as a robust exception logging class, and an enumeration that reports the Windows subsystem in which it is running (Character mode or GUI).

• DisplayAids is a sealed (implicitly static) class that precisely controls the way your application handles pauses.

• FixedConsoleWriter permits a line of a console window to be used repeatedly for successive lines of text, replacing the contents of the previous print statement, so that the lines above it don't scroll off the screen. Once instantiated, instances of this class behave almost exactly like Console.WriteLine, and you can drop them into your code in its place, because its overloads have identical signatures.