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How do I print in Color!
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Thomas Wren
Greenhorn
Joined: Nov 06, 2006
Posts: 11
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Say I have a line that is going to be printed to the user. The line prompts the user to give him the choice rather to run the program or not.
The code would look like this;
System.out.println(" If you want to run the program again press 1. If not, then press 0.");
how can i make this Show up in color for a linux system? or in a pop up box.?
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Darrin Cartwright
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Joined: Dec 27, 2002
Posts: 107
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Howdy Thomas!
If you want to print in color to the shell the user is using, thats not possible to specify from Java, it is controlled by the xterm the user is running.
If you are asking the question in a pop up, say in a JDialog, just set the foreground color of the JLabel to the desired color.
Hope that helps!
Darrin
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Joe Ess
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Joined: Oct 29, 2001
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ANSI escape codes should work under Linux. Have a look at the code here
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Darrin Cartwright
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Joined: Dec 27, 2002
Posts: 107
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Some do! (ASCI escape codes)
Unfortunately, the color codes don't. Just to be sure, I tried them with xterm, konsole, and gnome-terminal. The clear screen, normal, bold, and reverse codes work just fine, but the color codes seem to be ignored. 
Thanks for the hint Joe! I never thought to try those!
Darrin
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Darrin Cartwright
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Joined: Dec 27, 2002
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The color codes don't work.....
Because I was formatting them wrong! Oops!
Now they work fine.
Darrin
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