• Lionello Lunesu (9/9) Nov 30 2004 Is there any way to print text in different colors in the console?
• Stewart Gordon (10/13) Dec 01 2004 Yes, these always required the ANSI.SYS driver to be loaded. AIUI this
• Lionello Lunesu (32/34) Dec 01 2004 Wauw! Thanks a lot, that did the trick.
• David L. Davis (10/19) Dec 01 2004 Lionello:

"Lionello Lunesu" <lionello.lunesu crystalinter.remove.com> writes:

Is there any way to print text in different colors in the console?
ANSI escape sequences have no effect. Do I have to use the Win32 console API 
directly?

(Will there ever be ANSI support in Phobos' writef, or a std.console with 
wrappers for different platforms? Or, uh, should I create a GUI instead 
:-S....)

Lionello.

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Stewart Gordon <smjg_1998 yahoo.com> writes:

Lionello Lunesu wrote:
 Is there any way to print text in different colors in the console?
 ANSI escape sequences have no effect. 

Yes, these always required the ANSI.SYS driver to be loaded.  AIUI this 
was set up in most MS-DOS installations before Windows 95 came along.

 Do I have to use the Win32 console API directly?

<snip>

No.  In the dmc package, there's a disp.h file with functions to do 
things like this.  You can turn it into a D module and then use it.

Stewart.

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"Lionello Lunesu" <lionello.lunesu crystalinter.remove.com> writes:

 No.  In the dmc package, there's a disp.h file with functions to do
 things like this.  You can turn it into a D module and then use it.

Wauw! Thanks a lot, that did the trick.
I've attached the converted header-file to this message. Please, anyone, let 
me know if this is inappropriate.

Lionello. 


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David L. Davis <SpottedTiger yahoo.com> writes:

In article <cojsi1$19ct$1 digitaldaemon.com>, Lionello Lunesu says...
Is there any way to print text in different colors in the console?
ANSI escape sequences have no effect. Do I have to use the Win32 console API 
directly?

(Will there ever be ANSI support in Phobos' writef, or a std.console with 
wrappers for different platforms? Or, uh, should I create a GUI instead 
:-S....)

Lionello.

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Lionello:

For an example that uses Win32 APIs, please follow the link to my D web site
page at http://spottedtiger.tripod.com/D_Language/D_Hub_Adv_Tutor_XP.html and 
grab WinCon01aug04.zip which includes an example file called rainbow.d that does
16 colors foreground and 16 colors background (256 combinations). I think this
is what you're looking for.

David L.

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