Add colors param to SimplePrinter

simc / logger

Small, easy to use and extensible logger which prints beautiful logs.

https://pub.dev/packages/logger

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Add colors param to SimplePrinter #13

Closed galki closed 4 years ago

galki commented 5 years ago

SimplePrinter(colors: true)

Reason: color is easier than having to search for [E] ...

haarts commented 4 years ago

Wouldn't the PrettyPrinter be best suited for this purpose?

galki commented 4 years ago

Perhaps. The problem is that I have limited console space and PrettyPrinter eats up a lot of it. It would make work easier to have the option to output single-line logs which would stand out clearly from the rest of the non-logger output... even if it was a single hard-coded color other than gray.

haarts commented 4 years ago

Yesterday I've done quite a bit of research into colouring console output. The way I'm thinking about it now is that this would be a good feature to have. I want to implement it as follows:

detect if a terminal is attached and if that terminal supports ANSI escapes
iff so color the output. I'm planning to use the stdlib io for this an phase out our custom coloring code

So it would be an automatic process. I hope I have time for this end of this week/beginning of next week.