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.

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