Subj : Re: More dumb questions
To : Mortifis
From : Digital Man
Date : Fri Jul 19 2019 12:54 pm
Re: Re: More dumb questions
By: Mortifis to echicken on Fri Jul 19 2019 04:33 pm
> > Re: Re: More dumb questions
> > By: Mortifis to echicken on Fri Jul 19 2019 14:00:37
>
> > Mo> And yet another one, so when I say 'console' I am referring to
> > Mo> running via jsexec in a terminal and optput is stdout ... how does
> > Mo> one change font colors and the background color of an input (
> > Mo> readln() ) prompt?
>
> > I don't think any of the basic output methods have any provisions for
> > doing magic colour stuff, so you'd
> > probably have to send escape sequences yourself. It's possible that we
> > have some JS libraries that might
> > help with that, but I'd have to look (and it's more likely that they rely
> > on stuff that the console
> > object already does).
>
> I see conio.textcolor and conio.textbackground but I am unsure how to use it
> ... I tried conio.textcolor=3 but it displays jibberish and completely hoses
> the output
The conio stuff is *not* stdio. I would just stick to the basic write/writeln functions for a jsexec utility. See the other utility-like JS scripts for examples.
