Open markfinal opened 8 years ago
From http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17493276/how-to-keeps-colours-from-msbuild-output
Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.White;
Console.BackgroundColor = ConsoleColor.DarkRed;
Console.Error.WriteLine(text);
Console.ResetColor();
From GoogleTest, I found this (in C++)
// Helpers for printing colored strings to stdout. Note that on Windows, we
// cannot simply emit special characters and have the terminal change colors.
// This routine must actually emit the characters rather than return a string
// that would be colored when printed, as can be done on Linux.
void ColoredPrintf(GTestColor color, const char* fmt, ...) {
va_list args;
va_start(args, fmt);
#if GTEST_OS_WINDOWS_MOBILE || GTEST_OS_SYMBIAN || GTEST_OS_ZOS || GTEST_OS_IOS
const bool use_color = false;
#else
static const bool in_color_mode =
ShouldUseColor(posix::IsATTY(posix::FileNo(stdout)) != 0);
const bool use_color = in_color_mode && (color != COLOR_DEFAULT);
#endif // GTEST_OS_WINDOWS_MOBILE || GTEST_OS_SYMBIAN || GTEST_OS_ZOS
// The '!= 0' comparison is necessary to satisfy MSVC 7.1.
if (!use_color) {
vprintf(fmt, args);
va_end(args);
return;
}
#if GTEST_OS_WINDOWS && !GTEST_OS_WINDOWS_MOBILE
const HANDLE stdout_handle = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
// Gets the current text color.
CONSOLE_SCREEN_BUFFER_INFO buffer_info;
GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo(stdout_handle, &buffer_info);
const WORD old_color_attrs = buffer_info.wAttributes;
// We need to flush the stream buffers into the console before each
// SetConsoleTextAttribute call lest it affect the text that is already
// printed but has not yet reached the console.
fflush(stdout);
SetConsoleTextAttribute(stdout_handle,
GetColorAttribute(color) | FOREGROUND_INTENSITY);
vprintf(fmt, args);
fflush(stdout);
// Restores the text color.
SetConsoleTextAttribute(stdout_handle, old_color_attrs);
#else
printf("\033[0;3%sm", GetAnsiColorCode(color));
vprintf(fmt, args);
printf("\033[m"); // Resets the terminal to default.
#endif // GTEST_OS_WINDOWS && !GTEST_OS_WINDOWS_MOBILE
va_end(args);
}
Would be useful to identify output/errors from tools by colouring the output.