SadConsole 7.0.4

A MonoGame library that emulates old-school console and command prompt style graphics. Use the SadConsole.Starter package for new projects.

Release Notes

7.0.0 [BREAKING CHANGES]
- New SurfaceBase class which all Surface's inherit from.
- SurfaceBase has an IRenderer on it directly now.
- SurfaceEditor has been removed and is now implemented on SurfaceBase directly.
- Console no longer combines Renderer and TextSurface for drawing.
- Draw(SpriteBatch batch, Point position, Point size, Font font) has been removed.
- Cell/CellState have a Decorators list which are used to add extra glyph draws to individual cells.
- CellDecorator class added that has a color, glyph, and mirror setting.
- SadConsole.Serialization uses Newtonsoft.Json instead of the default .NET classes.
- SadConsole.Serialization supports GZIP compression now.
- Settings.SerializationIsCompressed can be set to true to set all internal save/load to use compression.
- Control themes completely rewritten. Themes control all drawing for a control now.
- Windows/ControlsConsole use a theme for drawing.
- InputBox renamed TextBox.
- Removed GameHelpers namespace. Types moved to root namespace.
- GameObject renamed to Entity.
- Surface.RenderArea changed to Surface.ViewPort
- Readded Zone and HotSpot types.
- Removed random level generation.
- Added Entities.EntityManager which helps control entity visibility and offsets based on a parent console. Also handles zones/hotspots.

7.0.2

- Fixed render bug with Entity/Animation if no parent was attached.
- Fixed ColoredString + operator.
- SadConsole IBM Extended font embedded in library now.

7.0.3 / 7.0.4

- TextBox had a double caret in some cases.
- If TextBox was first control in console, rendering was wrong.
- Added int overload for Helpers.*Flag related methods.

Dependencies

• • Newtonsoft.Json (>= 11.0.2)

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