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Started by ErUs September 08, 2005 09:28 AM

3 comments, last by GodBeastX 18 years, 7 months ago

ErUs

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September 08, 2005 09:28 AM

in C++ :) i need to append to string then just cout, but i dont know any of the escape sequences and cant find them.

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SiCrane

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September 08, 2005 09:32 AM

Googling for ansi escape sequences seems to turn up a lot of hits.

DJHoy

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September 08, 2005 09:35 AM

If I remember correctly, you just can't use cout - you need to write directly to the console...

benryves

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September 08, 2005 10:38 AM

More shameless self-whoring can be found here. Hope that helps...
There are a couple of functions for less direct-access problems, such as SetConsoleTextAttribute.

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GodBeastX

September 08, 2005 12:24 PM

I think you should be able to use cout, I don't see why not.

However, I'm not certain the console of NT/9x handles ansi escape sequences right off the bat. In dos for example you had to load ansi.sys in order to support escape sequences. Might have to load some sort of ansi driver in newer windows too, don't quote me on that. Like stated earlier, windows has it's own console coloring handlers, and I'd recommend using those instead.