[Qt-creator] About ANSI color support for Qt-creator output panel

[Orgad Shaneh]

On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 4:13 AM, Xiaofeng Wu <djangowu at gmail.com> wrote:

> It works for compile output, but when I use std::cout to print out the
> message, the output is not colored.
>
> Xiaofeng
>
> On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 8:56 PM, Henry Skoglund <fromqt at tungware.se>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi, it works fine when output from the compiler, for example if you have
>> a Visual Studio-flavored Qt Creator you can stuff #pragma message lines in
>> your code, like this:
>> #pragma message("\x1b[38;5;82mHello")
>> #pragma message("\x1b[38;5;198mWorld")
>>
>> Rgrds Henry
>>
>>
>> On 2014-12-27 16:13, Xiaofeng Wu wrote:
>>
>>> Now the output is
>>> " [32mHello  [34mWorld [m"
>>> with code,
>>> std::cout << "\x1b[32mHello \x1b[34mWorld\x1b[m" << std::endl;
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Xiaofeng
>>>
>>> On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Petar Perisin <petar.perisin at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:petar.perisin at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     It seems like ansiescapecodehandler.cpp defines escape as
>>>
>>>     \x1b[
>>>
>>>     so try that instead of '\e['
>>>
>>>     try simple colors for start, like
>>>
>>>     \x1b[32mHello \x1b[34mWorld\x1b[m
>>>
>>>     or something similar.
>>>
>>>
>>>     Regards,
>>>     Petar
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Xiaofeng Wu <djangowu at gmail.com
>>>     <mailto:djangowu at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>         Hi,
>>>
>>>         I tried double the backslash with code
>>>         std::cout << "\\e[38;5;82mHello \\e[38;5;198mWorld" <<
>>> std::endl;,
>>>           the output is like
>>>         "\e[38;5;82mHello \e[38;5;198mWorld"
>>>         Any other suggestion for making it work correctly?
>>>
>>>         Thanks,
>>>         Xiaofeng
>>>
>>>         On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Petar Perisin
>>>         <petar.perisin at gmail.com <mailto:petar.perisin at gmail.com>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>             Hi,
>>>
>>>             I haven't tried, but try to double the backslash:
>>>
>>>             std::cout << “\\e[38;5;82mHello \\e[38;5;198mWorld” <<
>>>             std::endl;
>>>
>>>             also, you might need to end colors somewhere.
>>>
>>>             Regards,
>>>             Petar
>>>
>>>             On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 3:34 AM, Xiaofeng Wu
>>>             <djangowu at gmail.com <mailto:djangowu at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>                 In the change log of Qt Creator 3.3.0, it says the
>>>                 application output panel support ansi color.
>>>                 But when I try to print colored texts like
>>>
>>>                 std::cout << “\e[38;5;82mHello \e[38;5;198mWorld” <<
>>>                 std::endl;
>>>
>>>                 What I can see from the application output panel is the
>>>                 verbatim output of the string, instead of colored text
>>>                 of “Hello Wolrd”
>>>
>>>                 Am I using it in the wrong way?
>>>
>>>
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The application output pane uses QtOutputFormatter, which doesn't support
ANSI escape code handling (as opposed to OutputFormatter which does).

Please file a bugreport <https://bugreports.qt-project.org/>.

Thanks,
- Orgad
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