formatting text in the console

[stormbind]

Hi,

Is there a way to format the text in the console? What about color, clear, &c?

Thanks

--Glen

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[sedj]

There are certainly no standard packages to do this ASFAIK.

So, you will be looking for a java library which interfaces with a native library to do it. For example, on linux, one uses ncurses to get coloured text etc. You don't state your OS, so I cannot really answer you, though I did find this link, which looks promising, for linux :

http://www.pitman.co.za/projects/charva/

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[stormbind]

Humn, OS is Mac + Windows

Thanks anyway

--Glen

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[stefanwagner]

Which windows?
Older Windows - I guess till win98 - came with ansi.sys installed, so you could easily use escape-sequences for colored characters and cursor positioning.

Newer windowses still have ansi.sys on board, but don't activate it.

They are pretty similar, but I think I can remember some subtle differences.

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