From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2007-09-05T16:19:31+09:00
Subject: Re: running ruby

Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> At Wed, 5 Sep 2007 05:18:28 +0900,
> Alex Young wrote in [ruby-talk:267595]:
>> Right click on the title bar of the console window, and select 
>> Properties.  Set the colours up on the Colors tab.  I don't know if it's 
>> possible to control this from Ruby - I'd expect it would be, but I've 
>> never needed to...
> 
> I guess you can do it by setting the ColorTable## under the
> registory key, \\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Console.  I don't know if
> there are other ways.
> 
I was thinking more along the lines of control codes.  You can run 
"color 70" at the command prompt, and that'll invert the colours 
(documented here: 
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/cmd.mspx?mfr=true)
but I can't think how to do that from within a script running under that 
shell.

-- 
Alex