Console text color

[skyphyr]

Hi All,

I'm making some console tools and would like it to highlight directories etc as appropriate.

Anyone know how I could do this in Qt and whether it would impact functionality on windows (not really a concern, but if I can leave it cross platform then it'd be nice).

Cheers,

Alan.

[sunil.thaha]

You can use the ascii color codes with qDebug() in unix flavours. And in windows maybe remove those and implement windows specific code ( Not really sure how it can be done in windows console )

Just found this
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerwork.../l-tip-prompt/
http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/Ma...ticle335.shtml
http://www.expertsrt.com/tutorials/Matt/CmdPrompt.html

[skyphyr]

Hi Sunil,

Thanks very much :-) I got it working with

QTextStream qout(stdout);
qout << "\033[0;32mSeqLs Constructor\033[0;0m\n";

I'll just need to implement processing of the LS_COLORS environment variable and it should follow the users preferences.

Cheers,

Alan.

[skyphyr]

Hi Sunil,

Thanks very much :-) I got it working with

QTextStream qout(stdout);
qout << "\033[0;32mSeqLs Constructor\033[0;0m\n";

I'll just need to implement processing of the LS_COLORS environment variable and it should follow the users preferences.

Cheers,

Alan.

[danadam]

Acording to wikipedia you need some kind of device driver (ANSI.SYS), to get it working under Windows. I don't know if it is installed by default.