[RFC] ColorD

[Walter Bright]

On 10/22/2012 3:55 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:> On 10/22/12 9:47 AM, Jens 
Mueller wrote:
 >> This is probably interesting for Phobos. But I'm not the one to make a
 >> decision. The core Phobos developers should decide.
 >> Hopefully somebody is reading this.
 >
 > Off the top of my head something that is specific for only certain systems
 > (Unixen in this case) is decidedly of less Phobos interest. We could,
 > nevertheless, put such functionality in system-specific modules.

A module that only sets the console color is a little too light to be a phobos 
entry.

A more comprehensive module that included:

1. getting mouse input
2. getting size of the console
3. moving the cursor around
4. drawing boxes in the console window
5. setting the contents of the title bar
6. supporting cut/paste
7. getting no-echo raw input
8. setting the size of the cursor

would be a definite candidate. I.e. a module that can support building a text 
mode screen app (like a text editor).