Colors dont work on a normal console window

[auth12]

fmt::print(fg(fmt::color::green) | fmt::emphasis::bold, "$> ");

example output :
�[1m�[38;2;000;128;000m$> �[0m27ec3180000 �[1m�[38;2;000;128;000m$> �[0mcurrent server version 0.1.0. �[1m�[38;2;000;128;000m$> �[0m1:FpK4]E-.4i->0.1.0 2

[foonathan]

What console/terminal emulator are you using? On what OS?

[auth12]

Windows, I guess fmt doesn't support windows console colors, I have to use SetConsoleTextAttribute in order to print colored text

[DHowett]

Sorry, I know this is an old thread. To get control sequences working in the Windows console, you will want to SetConsoleMode(...) to enable ENABLE_VIRTUAL_TERMINAL_PROCESSING on the output handle. This is not the default for compatibility reasons (sorry!)

[rebb]

Sorry, I know this is an old thread. To get control sequences working in the Windows console, you will want to SetConsoleMode(...) to enable ENABLE_VIRTUAL_TERMINAL_PROCESSING on the output handle. This is not the default for compatibility reasons (sorry!)

Should this work on a Windows 7 system ?
I tried to do it using the following snippet, but it didn't help - control sequences still just print directly.
I wonder how the colorama library for Python handles this.

HANDLE hOut = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
DWORD dwMode = 0;
GetConsoleMode(hOut, &dwMode);
dwMode |= ENABLE_VIRTUAL_TERMINAL_PROCESSING;
SetConsoleMode(hOut, dwMode);

[vitaut]

Color support is available starting from Windows 10: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#DOS,_OS/2,_and_Windows.

[ThePizzaMuncher]

Sorry, I know this is an old thread. To get control sequences working in the Windows console, you will want to SetConsoleMode(...) to enable ENABLE_VIRTUAL_TERMINAL_PROCESSING on the output handle. This is not the default for compatibility reasons (sorry!)

Sorry for necroing again, but I can’t get that to work when I include FMT. When I don’t include FMT, it functions, but if I do I get issues like identifier "STD_INPUT_HANDLE" is undefined (on HANDLE h0ut = GetStdHandle(STD_INPUT_HANDLE);), identifier "ENABLE_VIRTUAL_TERMINAL_PROCESSING" is undefined and too few arguments in function call (on SetConsoleMode(ENABLE_VIRTUAL_TERMINAL_PROCESSING))

[vitaut]

STD_INPUT_HANDLE is not used in the current version of {fmt}.

[ThePizzaMuncher]

This was a combination of things randomly working and not working, and me being a complete oaf.