Formatting of text

[FuggleNutz]

Hi,

I want to be able to change the colour of text / strings that is to be an output. I know how to create a new line "\n" etc.

Any code examples would be appreciated.

Thanks

Fugglez

[r035198x]

Hi,

I want to be able to change the colour of text / strings that is to be an output. I know how to create a new line "\n" etc.

Any code examples would be appreciated.

Thanks

Fugglez

Do you want to print in color to the console or on a swing/awt component?

[JosAH]

Hi,

I want to be able to change the colour of text / strings that is to be an output. I know how to create a new line "\n" etc.

Any code examples would be appreciated.

Thanks

Fugglez

What is the device you want to send your characters and string to? All those
devices (and Components) have different ways to make them display different
colours.If you're talking Java components you can easily use their setColor()
methods or you can even use html tags for that. If you're talking terminals
things get a bit more complicated.

kind regards,

Jos

[FuggleNutz]

Preferably in the terminal. But a few examples of other methods would be of use to me also.

Thanks

[FuggleNutz]

Any ideas? ive tried a few things but with no success. I want the string basically in red or so outputted to the terminal.

cheers

Fugglez

[JosAH]

Preferably in the terminal. But a few examples of other methods would be of use to me also.

Thanks

For Java's own Swing components it's easy: most if not all of them allow their
foreground (and background) colours to be set. Things are not so easy with
terminals because terminals are beyond the control of Java, i.e. Java can just
pump bytes to those devices and that's it. Some of these byte values can
specify another fore/background colour but every terminal uses a different
'command set' (sequence of bytes) for that. There's the ever popular VT100
set of terminals and there's the ANSI set of terminals. Both sets cover most
of the possible variations of terminals (but don't be surprised if ohers pop up
now and then!).

To cover that mess (more or less) there's 'ncurses' or 'curses'. There are Java
implementations for them. Google shows you the way: 'curses' is the key here.

kind regards,

Jos