Want to extend Console.

Hello,
I want to extend functionality of Java Console.
Say want to highlight(color) some words etc.

Is it possible???

As per my knowledge, it is not, because it is suppose to be platform independent. And not all platform provides this functionality (or something like that), but say i want to extend only console in windows (as of now)

How to do??

Any ideas???

Regards,
Nachiket

Would that be the public final class Console?

In a completely platform independent way? No. But you can print ANSI escape codes to print colored text and do some cursor movement on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, so for all practical purposes yes, you can.

See here for a table of the escape codes you need. For a Java example: this prints "Hello, World" in red:

System.out.println("\u001b[01;31mHello, World\u001b[00m");

Hello,
Thank you for your replies.

Would that be the public final class Console?

I said i want to extend functionality not Console class.

Thanks, Ernest, that's what i am looking for. I want to show colored text, as well as folder navigation using <tab> feature.

I tried, but i don't know,
it prints like this..
←[01;31mHello, World←[00m

I'll try, but if you know, why it is not showing, then let me know.

Thanks
Nachiket

There was some discussion on this recently: http://www.coderanch.com/t/416938/java/java/Different-colored-text