Color your terminal's output

[Trass3r]

Am 07.10.2011, 14:51 Uhr, schrieb Jens Mueller <jens.k.mueller at gmx.de>:

> Trass3r wrote:
>> >You could use ANSI codes on posix to avoid a dependency on curses:
>> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#Colors
>> >But I think using curses is ok. ncurses is MIT licensed and can be
>> >used as a dynamic library, so I don't think there are license problems.
>> >
>> >However, I'd recommend to load ncurses dynamically with dlopen/dlsym
>> >and fallback to simple text output if the ncurses library cannot be
>> >loaded.
>>
>> +1
>> There shouldn't be a hard dependency on curses.
>
> I had the impression that even though there is this standard how do I
> know that I have a standard-compliant terminal. Can I just assume this?
> I started using curses because I had the impression there may be
> non-standard terminals. But this seems to be minor issue. I will change
> this if people are happy with Windows and ISO/IEC 6429 compliant
> terminals only.
> Thanks.

As Johannes already said, it's perfectly possible to implement both  
approaches and choose at runtime.