Document and notes on Windows 10 console mode

[clach04]

1. ✅ temporary with colortool - https://github.com/clach04/terminal_style_toolkit/commit/ca70ef28152843faf3b23f13449a56667f24f6c8
2. permanent, generate registry entries for Windows CMD

win10 with patch (Anniversary Update for Windows 10) supposed to support ansi colors

• https://superuser.com/a/1300251

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/console/setconsolemode

  Windows 10 console host in build 16257 (and later). Namely, it's n̲o̲t̲ e̲n̲a̲b̲l̲e̲d̲ by default. Unless the specific software you're using enables ANSI processing by calling the SetConsoleMode API with the ENABLE_VIRTUAL_TERMINAL_PROCESSING (0x0004) flag, you won't see colors or get ANSI processing for that application.

• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/console/console-virtual-terminal-sequences#extended-colors

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win32 APIs

• SetConsoleScreenBufferInfoEx https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/console/setconsolescreenbufferinfoex
• SetConsoleMode https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/console/setconsolemode
• CONSOLE_SCREEN_BUFFER_INFOEX structure https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/console/console-screen-buffer-infoex

Possible references

• https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp_questions/comments/z1uwao/need_help_looping_rgb_specified_color_to_make/

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Colortool - CMD

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/introducing-the-windows-console-colortool/

See readme https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/blob/main/src/tools/ColorTool/README.md

• Color Tool April 2019 https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/releases/tag/1904.29002
• https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/tree/1904.29002
  • https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/tree/1904.29002/tools/ColorTool
• https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/blob/4aa1624cd2cfd5cdd4106feb26a2aa0f089a0e3d/src/tools/ColorTool/ColorTool/ConsoleTargets/CurrentConsoleTarget.cs#L14

[clach04]

Related https://github.com/clach04/terminal_style_toolkit/issues/12 - colortool included with (old) Windows Terminal