terminal: support more colors (all the colors?)

[ernest-bruce]

could use custom colors for background and foreground? . by this i mean that, in addition to the color constants, i would appreciate the ability to specify colors using the 0..255 range for red, gree, blue

[adamdruppe]

this function does that:

http://arsd-official.dpldocs.info/arsd.terminal.Terminal.setTrueColor.html

[ernest-bruce]

oh, wow! . that was quick!

i just discovered it and was preparing what to say about it here (i have been learning about each symbol of the Terminal struct in the past couple of hours) . i also saw that the terminal may not support all the colors (my web search and your code comments prepared me for that eventuality) . but i had to find out for myself:

RGB orange; 
orange.r=0; orange.g=128; orange.b=128;
terminal.setTrueColor(orange, orange);

instead of orange, Terminal (macOS) displays cyan

when i use terminal.color(Color.blue, Color.blue); i get blue

seems like my all·the·colors dream has been shattered by the infrastructure

[adamdruppe]

Orange is a combination of red and green, not green and blue.

The standard definition for orange is:

RGB(255,165,0)

which might work

[ernest-bruce]

omg! . it does work

this is important for me because i am working on an English·parsing tool that highlights sentence structure . color is the main mechanism through which i plan on showing parts of speech and sentence components to people

also, orange is my favorite color

thank you very much, Mr Ruppe!

[ernest-bruce]

this led me astraty: