How can I get a D1 console program to use ANSI codes? Currently it just prints the escape character like any other...

Funog wrote:
> How can I get a D1 console program to use ANSI codes? Currently it just prints the escape character like any other...

At first I thought you meant the ANSI character set, but then I realised you're probably talking about ANSI.SYS.

This is an operating system issue, not a D issue.  What OS version are you using?  Try searching the web for info related to yours.

Alternatively, check out disp.h, which comes with DMC, and use that instead.  I once began writing D bindings for it....

Stewart.

Stewart Gordon Wrote:

> Funog wrote:
> > How can I get a D1 console program to use ANSI codes? Currently it just prints the escape character like any other...
> 
> At first I thought you meant the ANSI character set, but then I realised you're probably talking about ANSI.SYS.
> 
> This is an operating system issue, not a D issue.  What OS version are you using?  Try searching the web for info related to yours.
> 
> Alternatively, check out disp.h, which comes with DMC, and use that instead.  I once began writing D bindings for it....
> 
> Stewart.

You are right. I was using Vista Premium, but it works fine on linux.

funog wrote:
> Stewart Gordon Wrote:
> 
>> Funog wrote:
>>> How can I get a D1 console program to use ANSI codes? Currently it just prints the escape character like any other...
>> At first I thought you meant the ANSI character set, but then I realised you're probably talking about ANSI.SYS.
>>
>> This is an operating system issue, not a D issue.  What OS version are you using?  Try searching the web for info related to yours.
>>
>> Alternatively, check out disp.h, which comes with DMC, and use that instead.  I once began writing D bindings for it....
>>
>> Stewart.
> 
> You are right. I was using Vista Premium, but it works fine on linux.

http://github.com/DanielKeep/gb/blob/master/src/gb/io/Ansi.d

Should stand on its own, but only works with Tango.

  -- Daniel

Daniel Keep wrote:
> http://github.com/DanielKeep/gb/blob/master/src/gb/io/Ansi.d
<snip>

I noticed this comment:

/* We only need to override write for Windows, since it's the only OS
 * that doesn't understand ANSI. The ONE spot where 9x is better than
 * NT...
 */

This is incorrect - ANSI.SYS is still included in modern Windows versions, at least up to Vista; the only difference is whether it's switched on by default.

But libraries such as yours at least mean that the codes will work regardless of whether the end user has ANSI.SYS switched on.  But disp.h, which I've already mentioned, also has the same advantage.  So unless the OP is porting an app that already uses ANSI codes, or writing a terminal emulator or something....

Stewart.