Does anyone know how I would set the color of a string that will be printed using System.out
?
This is the code I currently have:
System.out.println("TEXT THAT NEEDS TO BE A DIFFERENT COLOR.");
Does anyone know how I would set the color of a string that will be printed using System.out
?
This is the code I currently have:
System.out.println("TEXT THAT NEEDS TO BE A DIFFERENT COLOR.");
Google aparently has a library for this sort of thing: http://code.google.com/p/jlibs/wiki/AnsiColoring
There's also a Javaworld article on this which solves your problem: http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/javaqa/2002-12/02-qa-1220-console.html
Console
See the Wikipedia page on ANSI escapes for the full collection of sequences, including the colors.
But for one simple example (Printing in red) in Java (as you tagged this as Java) do:
The 3 indicates change color, the first 1 indicates red (green would be 2) and the second 1 indicates do it in "bright" mode.
GUI
However, if you want to print to a GUI the easiest way is to use html:
For more details on this sort of thing, see the Swing Tutorial. It is also possible by using styles in a JTextPane. Here is a helpful example of code to do this easily with a JTextPane (added from helpful comment).
JTextArea is a single coloured Text component, as described here. It can only display in one color. You can set the color for the whole JTextArea like this:
for linux (bash) following code works for me:
the \033[31m will switch the color to red and \033[0m will switch it back to normal.
Strings don't encapsulate color information. Are you thinking of setting the color in a console or in the GUI?
setColor(). Assuming you use Graphics g in an AWT context.
Please refer to the documentation for additional information.
I created an API called JCDP, former JPrinter, which stands for Java Colored Debug Printer. For Linux it uses the ANSI escape codes that WhiteFang mentioned, but abstracts them using words instead of codes which is much more intuitive. For Windows it actually includes the JAnsi library but creates an abstraction layer over it, maintaining the intuitive and simple interface created for Linux.
This library is licensed under the MIT License so feel free to use it.
Have a look at JCDP's github repository.