From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 2002:a24:700a:: with SMTP id f10-v6mr6125701itc.40.1534155786722; Mon, 13 Aug 2018 03:23:06 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:aca:f495:: with SMTP id s143-v6mr454661oih.7.1534155786651; Mon, 13 Aug 2018 03:23:06 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.uzoreto.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder.usenetexpress.com!feeder-in1.iad1.usenetexpress.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!g24-v6no3051275iti.0!news-out.google.com!g5-v6ni3731iti.0!nntp.google.com!g24-v6no3051270iti.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 03:23:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <856da002-664f-4759-92ea-b4e63331d848@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=69.158.109.24; posting-account=gOYTTAoAAADrNEg_oe5Etelo-0qd7UeW NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.158.109.24 References: <942a9ff7-9acd-47df-9e02-d32aa9fad2e2@googlegroups.com> <856da002-664f-4759-92ea-b4e63331d848@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Can Ada print coloured/styled text to the terminal? (ANSI escape sequences?) From: Aurele Vitali Injection-Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 10:23:06 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:54160 Date: 2018-08-13T03:23:06-07:00 List-Id: As described in the link I previously linked, in order for the new Windows = 10 Console to recognize ANSI escape sequences you must first enable the vir= tual terminal mode by first calling (from within your Ada program) the "Set= ConsoleMode" API and setting the "ENABLE_VIRTUAL_TERMINAL_PROCESSING" flag.= You can also look at the following link and write your own VT100 emulato= r... https://gist.github.com/tomzorz/6142d69852f831fb5393654c90a1f22e =20 I did something more elaborate, but it works fine. Cheers