How about colors and terminal graphics in std.format?

Christian Manning cmanning999 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 13 13:39:13 PDT 2012


On Tuesday, 13 March 2012 at 16:05:31 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2012-03-13 13:31, Christian Manning wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 13 March 2012 at 07:45:19 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
>> wrote:
>>> On 2012-03-13 02:36, Christian Manning wrote:
>>>
>>>> It would be great if an std.terminal contained general stuff 
>>>> for
>>>> manipulating/querying a terminal portably, as well as colour 
>>>> output, eg.
>>>> get terminal size, move cursor around, erase line... just 
>>>> things to help
>>>> with building UIs, progress bars, etc. that are easy to use.
>>>
>>> I actually have a library for this written in C++, somewhere.
>>
>> Any chance of a release? :)
>>
>> I'd like to have a stab at porting it to D, when I have time, 
>> if you
>> aren't already planning to.
>
> I have been thinking about porting it to D from time to time. I 
> can see what I can do :)

Looking forward to it!


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