Hello everyone, again,

I had an idea that I want some colors in the output of Command Line (For Windows) and
the Terminal (For Linux)

I found https://dlang.org/phobos/dmd_console.html and wanted to use it.
But it seems I'm not being successful, and I do not understand why.

Here, you can see that I'm trying to import dmd.console;

> import std.stdio : writeln;
> import dmd.console;
> 
> void main()
> {
>     writeln("Hello World");
> }

And the output says that, dmd.console; do not exist?
What are these Internal APIs for?
> C:\Users\Juozas\Desktop>rdmd color.d
> color.d(2): Error: module `console` is in file 'dmd\console.d' which cannot be read

On Tuesday, 20 August 2019 at 12:52:31 UTC, BoQsc wrote:
> And the output says that, dmd.console; do not exist?

These are for when you are working on the compiler's source itself.

On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 2:55 PM BoQsc via Digitalmars-d-learn <digitalmars-d-learn@puremagic.com> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone, again,
>
> I had an idea that I want some colors in the output of Command
> Line (For Windows) and
> the Terminal (For Linux)
>
> I found https://dlang.org/phobos/dmd_console.html and wanted to
> use it.
> But it seems I'm not being successful, and I do not understand
> why.
>
> Here, you can see that I'm trying to import dmd.console;
>
> > import std.stdio : writeln;
> > import dmd.console;
> >
> > void main()
> > {
> >     writeln("Hello World");
> > }
>
> And the output says that, dmd.console; do not exist?
> What are these Internal APIs for?
> > C:\Users\Juozas\Desktop>rdmd color.d
> > color.d(2): Error: module `console` is in file 'dmd\console.d'
> > which cannot be read

It is internal and it is part of dmd compiler sources but it is not
supposed to be used in normal D code. If you want colors in console
you can try this:
https://github.com/Kripth/terminal

you can use it as a dup dependency or just add terminal.d to your code base

On Tuesday, 20 August 2019 at 12:52:31 UTC, BoQsc wrote:
> Hello everyone, again,
>
> I had an idea that I want some colors in the output of Command Line (For Windows) and the Terminal (For Linux)
>

yesterday was talks about terminal colors in IRC-channel:
u can use VT-codes for changing colors:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/console/console-virtual-terminal-sequences#text-formatting

probably for Win10 only. idk for which Linux/Terminals it working too

> // Windows code
> import 	std,
> 	core.sys.windows.windows;
> 
> void main() {
> 	auto hc = GetStdHandle( STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE );
> 	assert( hc != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE);
> 
> 	uint mod;
> 	auto ok = GetConsoleMode( hc, &mod);
> 	assert( ok);
> 	ok = SetConsoleMode( hc, mod | ENABLE_VIRTUAL_TERMINAL_PROCESSING );
> 	assert( ok);
> 
> 	writeln( "\x1b[38;2;255;100;0mTRUECOLOR");
> 	writeln( "\x1b[30;47mHello from Inversed" );
> 	writeln( "\x1b[38;2;255;0;255mTRUECOLOR\x1b[0m" );
>           // last "\x1b[0m" - make colors default
> 	readln;
> }

On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 12:52:31PM +0000, BoQsc via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: [...]
> I found https://dlang.org/phobos/dmd_console.html and wanted to use it.  But it seems I'm not being successful, and I do not understand why.
[...]

Because this is code inside the compiler, when you're compiling the compiler, not something that you can call from user code.


--T