Re: Coloured console output support for windows.
Richard Quadling <[email protected]>
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2009/9/21 Hannes Magnusson <[email protected]>: > On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 12:59, Richard Quadling > <[email protected]> wrote: >> doing, it can be done quite easily using the REG command from the >> Windows Resource Toolkit. >> >> REG ADD "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor" /v AutoRun /t >> REG_SZ /d "C:\Utils\ANSICon.exe -p" > > Right, but that has to be done when installing the application, not > every time phd.bat is executed. Agreed. And the ANSICON instructions could easily be amended to show this. > And we would also have to detect if the system supports it rather then > blindly polluting the registry. "blindly polluting the registry" ? From cmd /? ... "If /D was NOT specified on the command line, then when CMD.EXE starts, it looks for the following REG_SZ/REG_EXPAND_SZ registry variables, and if either or both are present, they are executed first. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor\AutoRun and/or HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor\AutoRun" This is "blindly polluting", but a completely standard and supported facility, albeit an obscure one. As for detection, once ANSICON is loaded, the ANSICON environment variable. But maybe ANSICon needs a small installer which has the option of doing this (Jason - possible?) automatically for those too nervous of editing registry. > > Plus, afaik, the PEAR installer doesn't support doing such things. > !is_null(getenv('ANSICON')) ? > -Hannes > I think that whilst windows no longer has coloured console output as standard, a free alternative is a viable option. The other option is to disable coloured output when on windows, but if that was the case, I would like the option of having a mechanism to enable this without having to add it to the command line every time - yet another env_var? The source is available. Jason has been very receptive to the issues that I've raised. Richard -- ----- Richard Quadling "Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!" EE : http://www.experts-exchange.com/M_248814.html Zend Certified Engineer : http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND002498&r=213474731 ZOPA : http://uk.zopa.com/member/RQuadling