Questions Concerning colorizing text in Ubuntu terminal.

[JonB]

@Cougar-0 said in Questions Concerning colorizing text in Ubuntu terminal.:

I noticed it only colored update and not the word check.

The word check comes in your messageType parameter, not in the message parameter which is where the update ... string is. Hence is does not get colorized.

You would either have to:

• Subject the messageType parameter to the same escape sequence injection as you do on the message parameter. That is where factoring the colorizing code into its own function with a parameter would be a very good idea, as shown by @SGaist is his very first response.

• First create the whole string to be output (QString fullMessage = QStringLiteral("[%1][%2]\t%3").arg(dateTimeStr, messageType, message)) and then subject that fullMessage to the colorization code before outputting it instead of just the message.

But I said a long time ago I am not volunteering to write all the code... :)

[Cougar 0]

I didn't expect you or anyone to write all the code for this, especially for nothing, that is why I offered to pay whoever could help me get this to work.
I don't have the 5 or 6 years left it would take me to learn how to do all this!
I will take it from here....
Thanks for everything!