From: Andy <agunnerson@...>
Date: 2008-02-07T06:52:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there an easy way to color/control console output?

Thank you all very much for your info and links.  It's very much appreciated.

-- 
-Andy
"I have a great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it." –
Edgar Allen Poe

On Feb 6, 2008 12:16 PM, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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.
>
>