The writefln function has a lot of formatting options for strings, but they always come out with the same default color. How can we create colored text output in D?
Let's write colored output to the console by executing the following steps:
Import
terminal.Create an instance of
Terminalwith a linear output type.Set the foreground and background color with the
terminal.colormethod.Write text with the
terminal.write,terminal.writeln,terminal.writef, orterminal.writeflnfunctions. They work the same way as the homonym functions instd.stdio.You can flush output with
terminal.flush()if it isn't done soon enough automatically.Compile the program and
terminal.dtogether withdmd yourfile.d terminal.d.
The following is the code:
import terminal;
void main() {
auto terminal = Terminal(ConsoleOutputType.linear);
terminal.color(Color.green, Color.red);
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