d-colorize

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A partial port of Ruby's colorize library to D.

To put it simply, this is a simple helper for printing colored output to a terminal.

Installing

This package is registered in the dub registry as colorize.

Usage

import std.stdio;
import colorize : colorize, fg;

void main()
{
  writeln("This is blue".colorize(fg.blue));
}

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Setting background, foreground and text modes:

string colorize(
  const string str,
  const fg c,
  const bg b=bg.init,
  const mode m=mode.init
) pure;

Wraps a string around color escape sequences.

Params

• str = The string to wrap with colors and modes
• c = The foreground color (see the fg enum type)
• b = The background color (see the bg enum type)
• m = The text mode (see the mode enum type)

Example

colorize("This is red over green blinking", fg.blue, bg.green, mode.blink)

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Setting background colors:

string colorize(const string str, const bg b) pure; // alias to background

Wraps a string around a background color escape sequence.

Params

• str = The string to wrap with background color b
• b = The background color (see the bg enum type)

Example

colorize("This has a blue background", bg.blue);
background("This has a red background", bg.red);

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Setting text modes:

string colorize(const string str, const mode m) pure; // alias to `style`

Wraps a string around a text mode.

Params

• str = The string to wrap with style m
• m = The text mode (see the mode enum type)

Example

colorize("This text is bold", mode.bold);
style("This text is blinking", mode.blink);

Coloring with strings:

string colorize(const string str, const string name) pure;

Wraps a string around the foreground color, background color or text style represented by the color name. Foreground colors are represented by their enum key ("blue" will be 34, "red" 31, and so on) and backgrounds/modes are prefixed with either "bg_" or "mode_" (thus, "bg_black" will be 40, "mode_bold" 1 and so on).

Example

colorize("This text is blue", "blue");
"This is red over blue, blinking"
  .colorize("red")
  .colorize("bg_blue")
  .colorize("mode_blue");

Params

Available colors and modes

fg enum type (Foreground colors)

Foreground text colors are available through the fg enum. Currently available colors are:

• fg.init (39)
• fg.black (30)
• fg.red (31)
• fg.green (32)
• fg.yellow (33)
• fg.blue (34)
• fg.magenta (35)
• fg.cyan (36)
• fg.white (37)
• fg.light_black (90)
• fg.light_red (91)
• fg.light_green (92)
• fg.light_yellow (93)
• fg.light_blue (94)
• fg.light_magenta (95)
• fg.light_cyan (96)
• fg.light_white (97)

bg enum type (Background colors)

Background colors are available with the same names through the bg enum. This is because background colors come with an offset of 10 to their foreground counterparts and we wanted to avoid calculating the offset at runtime.

mode enum type (Text modes)

Text modes are available through the mode enum. Currently available text modes are:

• mode.init (0)
• mode.bold (1)
• mode.underline (4)
• mode.blink (5)
• mode.swap (7)
• mode.hide (8)

License

Copyright (c) 2014 Pedro Tacla Yamada. Licensed under the MIT license. Please refer to the LICENSE file for more info.