From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2008-02-07T04:16:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there an easy way to color/control console output?



On Feb 5, 7:13 pm, Andy <agunner...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone, is there an easy way for me to color my console
> output?  What about updating just a particular x/y coordinate?  I
> don't have time to learn Tk right now for a graphical GUI but just
> being able to control the color and locations of what I print out
> would be so nice.  I am on windows right now but I would like the code
> to be cross platform if it as all possible.  Anyone here have any
> suggestions for something light weight?

If all you need is basic ANSI, ie. color:

$ gem install facets
$ irb

>> require 'facets/ansicode'
>> include Console::ANSICode
>>
>> p red, "Hello", blue, "World"
"\e[31mHello\e[34mWorld"
>>
>> p red{ "Hello" } + blue{ "World" }
"\e[31mHello\e[0m\e[34mWorld\e[0m"

We have Florian Frank to thank for the original version of this lib.

T.