Hi everyone, Is there anything available for Kotli...

# getting-started

[Danish Ansari]

Hi everyone,
Is there anything available for Kotlin(or Java) similar to https://github.com/SBoudrias/Inquirer.js?
I found https://github.com/kotlin-inquirer/kotlin-inquirer but when I run it on windows CLI(which is my project's primary target), the CMD goes brrrrrrr.... 😅
The inputs keep appearing again and again and doesn't wait for the user to give input

[ephemient]

yeah, looks like it hard-codes ANSI escape codes

[ephemient]

try using https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/windows-terminal/9n0dx20hk701 instead of cmd?

[ephemient]

(I don't have Windows here so I don't know if that helps, but at least it's newer than the ancient conhost)

[ephemient]

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/console/console-virtual-terminal-sequences#example-of-enabling-virtual-terminal-processing shows how to force-enable ANSI escape codes in Windows 10 Anniversary Update, which I'd expect to work in cmd.exe, but requires native code

[Danish Ansari]

the thing is I'm using windows but the user can be on any OS

[Danish Ansari]

I simply want basic interactive components for CLI like Single/ Multiple choice list etc

[ephemient]

well, ANSI escape codes should work on every other OS out there, it's just Windows that's "special"

[Danish Ansari]

ok thanks

[ephemient]

you can maybe try to reuse something like https://github.com/gradle/native-platform#terminal-and-console which already has custom native bindings for Windows and other platforms

[Danish Ansari]

thanks

[Yaniv Grama]

Hey @Danish Ansari,
I’m the author of kotlin-inquirer
please check out the latest version
I think it should resolve your issue
LMK if not 🙂 and thank you for trying it out 👍