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write the escape character to the console?

How do you send an escape key to the console? I was trying to change
the color of the text in cmd.exe with something like this:

Console.Out.Wri te("\u001b[1;31m");

But that doesn't seem to have any effect. I also tried 001b. Any ideas?

Nov 1 '07 #1
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not_a_commie wrote:
How do you send an escape key to the console? I was trying to change
the color of the text in cmd.exe with something like this:

Console.Out.Wri te("\u001b[1;31m");

But that doesn't seem to have any effect. I also tried 001b. Any ideas?
You need ANSI.SYS loaded to use ANSI escape sequences.

..NET 2.0 introduced the two properties:

Console.Backgro undColor
Console.Foregro undColor

Use them instead.

Arne

Nov 2 '07 #2

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