How to create ASCII animation in Windows Console application using C#? -

i display non-flickery animation awesome linux command; sl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gymzkwjcyu

i appreciate small & stupid example of ... fly.

thanks!

just use console.setcursorposition moving cursor position, console.write character. before each frame have delete previous 1 overwriting spaces. heres little example built:

class program {     static void main(string[] args)     {         char[] chars = new char[] { '.', '-', '+', '^', '°', '*' };         (int = 0; ; i++)         {             if (i != 0)             {                 // delete previous char setting space                 console.setcursorposition(6 - (i-1) % 6 - 1, console.cursortop);                 console.write(" ");             }              // write new char             console.setcursorposition(6 - % 6 - 1, console.cursortop);             console.write(chars[i % 6]);              system.threading.thread.sleep(100);         }     } } 

you instance take animated gif, extract single frames/images (see how here), apply ascii transformation (how described here example) , print these frame frame in above code example.

update

just fun, implemented described. try out replacing @"c:\some_animated_gif.gif" path (not large) animated gif. example take ajax loader gif here.

class program {     static void main(string[] args)     {         image image = image.fromfile(@"c:\some_animated_gif.gif");         framedimension dimension = new framedimension(                            image.framedimensionslist[0]);         int framecount = image.getframecount(dimension);         stringbuilder sb;          // remember cursor position         int left = console.windowleft, top = console.windowtop;          char[] chars = { '#', '#', '@', '%', '=', '+',                           '*', ':', '-', '.', ' ' };         (int = 0; ; = (i + 1) % framecount)         {             sb = new stringbuilder();             image.selectactiveframe(dimension, i);              (int h = 0; h < image.height; h++)             {                 (int w = 0; w < image.width; w++)                 {                     color cl = ((bitmap)image).getpixel(w, h);                     int gray = (cl.r + cl.g + cl.b) / 3;                     int index = (gray * (chars.length - 1)) / 255;                      sb.append(chars[index]);                 }                 sb.append('\n');             }              console.setcursorposition(left, top);             console.write(sb.tostring());              system.threading.thread.sleep(100);         }     } }