colors.cc

colors.cc is a library for quickly adding color codes to your C++ strings for terminal output.

Usage

To use colors.cc, simply npm install colors.cc and #require "colors.cc" as colors

colors.use() takes 3 parameters and returns a std::string;

Parameter	Type	Desctription
str	std::string	The string you wish to colorise
fore	int	foreground color
back	int	background color

The colors are represented by numbers 0 - 15 with -1 as the default, you can use the enum values to represent colors or the numbers as specified in the table below:

Color	Enum	No
default	CC_DEFAULT	-1
black	CC_BLACK	0
red	CC_RED	1
green	CC_GREEN	2
brown	CC_BROWN	3
blue	CC_BLUE	4
maganta	CC_MAGENTA	5
cyan	CC_CYAN	6
gray	CC_GRAY	7
dark_gray	CC_DARK_GRAY	8
light_red	CC_LIGHT_RED	9
light_green	CC_LIGHT_GREEN	10
yellow	CC_YELLOW	11
light_blue	CC_LIGHT_BLUE	12
light_magenta	CC_LIGHT_MAGENTA	13
light_cyan	CC_LIGHT_CYAN	14
white	CC_WHITE = 15	15

EXAMPLE

#include <iostream>
#include <string>

#require "colors.cc" as colors

using namespace std;

int main( int argc, char* argv[] ) {

	string a = "Hello colorful world";

	cout << colors.use( a, colors.grey , colors.magenta ) << endl;
	cout << colors.use( "single test", colors.cyan, colors.bg ) << endl;
	cout << colors.use( " single test ", colors.black, colors.blue) << endl;

	return 0;
}

LICENSE

BSD LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2013, Divan Visagie All rights reserved.

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