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Top Forums Programming Using ANSI color codes in gcc compiled program Post 302632625 by kristinu on Monday 30th of April 2012 12:11:15 PM
Old 04-30-2012
I agree with you. Instead of calling fprintf, I will call your routines inside the functions I have created. Took me some time to decide how to approach things. I do like your method.

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
I really don't know what you want anymore. You don't want to pass them into the function because it becomes so many arguments, but you don't want to embed them in the printf command string either. One way or another, you need to tell it which parts you want to be what color and intensity.

I'd just use the aprintf I gave you instead of making 20 very slightly-different printing functions:

Code:
afprintf(stdout, "~&110--bracd~&R, ~&110--mindacc~&R=~&120DIST~&R\n");
// Or perhaps
afprintf(stdout, "~&110%s~&R, ~&110--mindacc~&R=~&120%s~&R\n", "--bradc", "DIST");

You could make macros for various colors, since you can stick strings together like

Code:
#define RED "~&110"
#define RESET "~&R"

afprintf(stdout, "This word is " RED "red!" RESET "\n");

Short of building an HTML parser in your code so you can do [RED]stuff[/RED] I don't know how to make it more convenient for you.
I wrote the different functions so that they take some standard color sequence instead of specifying the color everytime. Internally I will set the color sequence and then call your function to print the actual colored output.
 

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NAME

       set_color - set_color - set the terminal color

set_color - set the terminal color
   Synopsis
       set_color [-v --version] [-h --help] [-b --background COLOR] [COLOR]

   Description
       Change the foreground and/or background color of the terminal. COLOR is one of black, red, green, brown, yellow, blue, magenta, purple,
       cyan, white and normal.

       o -b, --background Set the background color

       o -c, --print-colors Prints a list of all valid color names

       o -h, --help Display help message and exit

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       o -v, --version Display version and exit

       Calling set_color normal will set the terminal color to whatever is the default color of the terminal.

       Some terminals use the --bold escape sequence to switch to a brighter color set. On such terminals, set_color white will result in a grey
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       set_color uses the terminfo database to look up how to change terminal colors on whatever terminal is in use. Some systems have old and
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