Console Color Utilities

Console Color Utilities

This module provides utilities for managing text colors in the console. It includes functions for styling text output in the console using color codes.

Key Functions:

• consolix::color: Sets the text color for console output.

ColorManipulator Class:

The ColorManipulator class enables color support for Windows consoles. It is utilized by the CONSOLIX_STREAM macro to provide colorized console output.

Supported Colors:

The text colors are defined in the TextColor enumeration:

enum class TextColor {
    Black,
    DarkRed,
    DarkGreen,
    DarkYellow,
    DarkBlue,
    DarkMagenta,
    DarkCyan,
    LightGray,
    DarkGray,
    Red,
    Green,
    Yellow,
    Blue,
    Magenta,
    Cyan,
    White,
};

ANSI Escape Code Conversion:

Colors are converted to ANSI escape codes using the function:

const char* to_c_str(const TextColor& color);

This allows seamless integration with Linux and macOS terminals by embedding ANSI escape codes into the output string.

Windows Console Color Conversion:

On Windows, colors are converted to console attributes using:

WORD to_windows_color(const TextColor& color);

This enables color rendering in Windows terminals by setting the console text attributes.