tui-prompts

tui-prompts is a Rust crate that provides prompt widgets for the Ratatui crate. It allows for easy creation of interactive command-line interfaces with various types of prompts. Inspired by https://www.npmjs.com/package/prompts and various other prompt libraries.

Examples

Text Prompt

Code

```rust struct App<'a> { usernamestate: TextState<'a>, passwordstate: TextState<'a>, invisible_state: TextState<'a>, }

impl<'a> App<'a> { fn drawui(&mut self, frame: &mut Frame) { let (usernamearea, passwordarea, invisiblearea) = split_layout(frame.size())

TextPrompt::from("Username") .draw(frame, username_area, &mut self.username_state); TextPrompt::from("Password") .with_render_style(TextRenderStyle::Password) .draw(frame, password_area, &mut self.password_state); TextPrompt::from("Invisible") .with_render_style(TextRenderStyle::Invisible) .draw(frame, invisible_area, &mut self.invisible_state); }

} ```

Features

[x] Text prompt

[x] Password prompt

[x] Invisible prompt

[x] Readline / emacs style Key Bindings

[x] Crossterm backend

[x] Soft wrapping single lines

[ ] Multi-line input

[ ] Scrolling

[ ] More prompt types:

[ ] Number

[ ] Confirm

[ ] List

[ ] Toggle

[ ] Select

[ ] Multi-select

[ ] Autocomplete

[ ] Autocomplete multi-select

[ ] Date

[ ] Bracketed paste

[ ] Validation

[ ] Default initial value

[ ] Custom style

[ ] Themes

[ ] Custom formatting

[ ] Backend agnostic keyboard event handling (Termion and Termwiz)

[ ] Customizable key bindings

[ ] Handle more advanced multi-key bindings e.g. ^[b and ^[f for start / end of line

[ ] Prompt chaining

Installation

shell cargo add ratatui cargo add tui-prompts

Or add the following to your Cargo.toml file:

toml [dependencies] ratatui = "0.22.0" tui-prompts = "0.2.0"

Key Bindings

| Key | Action | --- | --- | Home, Ctrl+A | Move cursor to beginning of line | End, Ctrl+E | Move cursor to end of line | Left, Ctrl+B | Move cursor one character left | Right, Ctrl+F | Move cursor one character right | Backspace (Delete on Mac), Ctrl+H | Delete character before cursor | Delete (Fn+Delete on Mac), Ctrl+D | Delete character at cursor | Ctrl+K | Delete all characters from the cursor to the end of line | Ctrl+U | Delete the entire line | Enter | Complete the prompt | Escape, Ctrl+C | Abort the prompt

License

Dual-licensed under Apache 2.0 or MIT.