Java is too limited when dealing with the Console

[Brunoais]

jLine requires a .dll on windows making it not OS agnostic. If this 
existed in java itself, this problem would not be a problem because java 
internal dll are signed by java and can be included without issues.

But then, why doesn't java have this?


On 15/11/2016 15:12, Roger Riggs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> You might find an open source package like JLine would have the full 
> featured terminal support you are looking for.
>   http://jline.sourceforge.net/
>
> Roger
>
>
> On 11/13/2016 5:35 AM, Brunoais wrote:
>> Since java 6, a class named Console was created. This class allows 
>> reading and writing directly to the console, including getting input 
>> without echoing for password purposes.
>>
>> Unfortunately, that class does not include useful functionality for 
>> java programs to work on the console and output formatted text. The 
>> feature I miss the most is knowing how many columns I have to type 
>> into in order to deliver an easier to read formatted output while 
>> avoiding line wraps that are not coded in.
>>
>> There are other things I miss like having multi-line progress bars 
>> (so far I can do single line if it is the last line by using "\r" and 
>> re-writing the line).
>>
>> Other times, it is more user friendly to wait for any key press 
>> instead of specifically waiting for "Enter" which will also add more 
>> lines to the console.
>>
>> I did some search and found nothing about this. Why hasn't this been 
>> implemented for java code?
>>
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