rang

##### Colors for your Terminal.

!rang-demo

Windows Demo

!rang-windows-demo

This C++ library was developed by Abhinav Gauniyal.




Example usage
-------------

``c++
#include

using namespace std;
using namespace rang;

int main()
{
cout << "Plain old text"
<< style::bold << "Rang styled text!!"
<< style::reset << endl;
}
`




Dependencies
------------
rang only depends on C++ standard library, unistd.h system header on unix and windows.h & io.h system headers on windows based systems. In other words, you don't need any 3rd party dependencies.




Installation
------------

Run:

`sh
$ npm i rang.cxx
`

And then include rang.hpp as follows:

`cxx
// main.cxx
#include

int main() { / ... / }
`

Finally, compile while adding the path node_modules/rang.cxx to your compiler's include paths.

`bash
$ clang++ -I./node_modules/rang.cxx main.cxx # or, use g++
$ g++ -I./node_modules/rang.cxx main.cxx
`

You may also use a simpler approach with the cpoach tool, which automatically adds the necessary include paths of all the installed dependencies for your project.

`bash
$ cpoach clang++ main.cxx # or, use g++
$ cpoach g++ main.cxx
`




Or, if you use the conan package manager, follow these steps:

1. Add a reference to rang to the requires section of your project's conanfile.txt file:

`bash
[requires]
rang/3.1.0@rang/stable
`

2. Run conan's install command:

`bash
conan install
`

How to use

Rang uses iostream objects - cout/clog/cerr to apply attributes to output text. Since rang aims to support both windows and unix like systems, it takes care of the os specific details and tries to provide a uniform interface. Due to incompatiblities b/w different OS versions, not all kinds of attributes are supported on every system so rang will try to skip the ones which might produce garbage(instead of pushing random ANSI escape codes on your streams). Detection of tty is also handled internally so you don't need to check if application user might redirect output to a file.

> Need support for non-ansi terminals? Check out Termdb which supports virtually all terminals and their capablities.

Apart from setting text attributes, you can also ask rang to override its default behaviour through these methods -
`cpp
void rang::setControlMode(rang::control);
`
where rang::control takes
- control::Auto - Automatically detects whether terminal supports color or not(Default)
- control::Off - Turn off colors completely
- control::Force - Force colors even if terminal doesn't supports them or output is redirected to non-terminal

`cpp
void rang::setWinTermMode(rang::winTerm);
`
where rang::winTerm takes
- winTerm::Auto - Checks for newer windows and picks Ansi otherwise falls back to Native(Default)
- winTerm::Native - This method is supported in all versions of windows but supports less attributes
- winTerm::Ansi - This method is supported in newer versions of windows and supports rich variety of attributes


Supported attributes with their compatiblity are listed below -

Text Styles:

| Code | Linux/Win/Others | Old Win
| ---- | --------- | ------ |
| rang::style::bold | yes | yes |
| rang::style::dim | yes | no |
| rang::style::italic | yes | no |
| rang::style::underline | yes | no |
| rang::style::blink | no | no |
| rang::style::rblink | no | no |
| rang::style::reversed | yes | yes |
| rang::style::conceal | maybe | yes |
| rang::style::crossed | yes | no |

Text Color:

| Code | Linux/Win/Others | Old Win
| ---- | --------- | ------ |
| rang::fg::black | yes | yes |
| rang::fg::red | yes | yes |
| rang::fg::green | yes | yes |
| rang::fg::yellow | yes | yes |
| rang::fg::blue | yes | yes |
| rang::fg::magenta | yes | yes |
| rang::fg::cyan | yes | yes |
| rang::fg::gray | yes | yes |

Background Color:

| Code | Linux/Win/Others | Old Win
| ---- | --------- | ------ |
| rang::bg::black | yes | yes |
| rang::bg::red | yes | yes |
| rang::bg::green | yes | yes |
| rang::bg::yellow | yes | yes |
| rang::bg::blue | yes | yes |
| rang::bg::magenta | yes | yes |
| rang::bg::cyan | yes | yes |
| rang::bg::gray | yes | yes |

Bright Foreground Color:

| Code | Linux/Win/Others | Old Win
| ---- | --------- | ------ |
| rang::fgB::black | yes | yes |
| rang::fgB::red | yes | yes |
| rang::fgB::green | yes | yes |
| rang::fgB::yellow | yes | yes |
| rang::fgB::blue | yes | yes |
| rang::fgB::magenta | yes | yes |
| rang::fgB::cyan | yes | yes |
| rang::fgB::gray | yes | yes |

Bright Background Color:

| Code | Linux/Win/Others | Old Win
| ---- | --------- | ------ |
| rang::bgB::black | yes | yes |
| rang::bgB::red | yes | yes |
| rang::bgB::green | yes | yes |
| rang::bgB::yellow | yes | yes |
| rang::bgB::blue | yes | yes |
| rang::bgB::magenta | yes | yes |
| rang::bgB::cyan | yes | yes |
| rang::bgB::gray | yes | yes |

Reset Styles/Colors:

| Code | Linux/Win/Others | Old Win
| ---- | --------- | ------ |
| rang::style::reset | yes | yes |
| rang::fg::reset | yes | yes |
| rang::bg::reset | yes | yes |

-----

My terminal is not detected/gets garbage output!

Check your env variable TERM's value. Then open an issue here and make sure to mention TERM's value along with your terminal name.






Redirecting cout/cerr/clog rdbuf?



Rang doesn't interfere if you try to redirect cout/cerr/clog` to somewhere else and leaves the decision to the library user. Make sure you've read this conversation and check out the example code here.