This is a sample app that shows how to use `System.Reactive` and `ReactiveUI` with `Terminal.Gui`. The app uses the MVVM architecture that may seem familiar to folks coming from WPF, Xamarin Forms, UWP, Avalonia, or Windows Forms. In this app, we implement the data bindings using ReactiveUI `WhenAnyValue` syntax and [Pharmacist](https://github.com/reactiveui/pharmacist) — a tool that converts all events in a NuGet package into observable wrappers. ### Scheduling In order to use reactive extensions scheduling, copy-paste the `TerminalScheduler.cs` file into your project, and add the following lines to the composition root of your `Terminal.Gui` application: ```cs Application.Init (); RxApp.MainThreadScheduler = TerminalScheduler.Default; RxApp.TaskpoolScheduler = TaskPoolScheduler.Default; Application.Run (new RootView (new RootViewModel ())); ``` From now on, you can use `.ObserveOn(RxApp.MainThreadScheduler)` to return to the main loop from a background thread. This is useful when you have a `IObservable` updated from a background thread, and you wish to update the UI with `TValue`s received from that observable. ### Data Bindings If you wish to implement `OneWay` data binding, then use the `WhenAnyValue` [ReactiveUI extension method](https://www.reactiveui.net../docs/handbook/when-any/) that listens to `INotifyPropertyChanged` events of the specified property, and converts that events into `IObservable`: ```cs // 'usernameInput' is 'TextField' ViewModel .WhenAnyValue (x => x.Username) .BindTo (usernameInput, x => x.Text); ``` Note that your view model should implement `INotifyPropertyChanged` or inherit from a `ReactiveObject`. If you wish to implement `OneWayToSource` data binding, then install [Pharmacist.MSBuild](https://github.com/reactiveui/pharmacist) into your project and listen to e.g. `TextChanged` event of a `TextField`: ```cs // 'usernameInput' is 'TextField' usernameInput .Events () // The Events() extension is generated by Pharmacist. .TextChanged .Select (old => usernameInput.Text) .DistinctUntilChanged () .BindTo (ViewModel, x => x.Username); ``` If you combine `OneWay` and `OneWayToSource` data bindings, you get `TwoWay` data binding. Also be sure to use the `string` type instead of the `string` type. Invoking commands should be as simple as this: ```cs // 'clearButton' is 'Button' clearButton .Events () .Clicked .InvokeCommand (ViewModel, x => x.Clear); ```