Coloring terminal output.

Alexandre L. via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Mon Jul 14 17:21:07 PDT 2014


On Monday, 14 July 2014 at 22:51:17 UTC, yamadapc wrote:
> On Monday, 14 July 2014 at 20:09:05 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>> On Monday, 14 July 2014 at 19:57:32 UTC, Suliman wrote:
>>> Cool! Would it be hard to add windows support?
>>
>> I don't think it can be done with this setup - the colorize 
>> thing returns a string, but Windows does color via API calls 
>> independently of the string.
>>
>> My terminal.d offers color output through special function 
>> calls: 
>> https://github.com/adamdruppe/arsd/blob/master/terminal.d
>
> Suliman:
> As Adam mentioned, to add windows support we'd have to use a 
> different
> set-up. I'm thinking on a clean solution to this, but a special 
> printing
> function will have to be called.
>
> I'm actually discussing this at 
> https://github.com/yamadapc/d-colorize/issues/2
>
> Adam:
> Cool; that seems like a nice solution.

If you wish, I have some small examples on my github.
github.com/mrtryhard/dlang

Directory 'console'. It provides minimalistic console support for 
Windows only. However I was pissed that some headers / functions 
weren't available so I kind of lacked the updates on it.


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