Questions Concerning colorizing text in Ubuntu terminal.
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@JonB , Success! We have color text!
I now have code to work with and tweek!
Thank you so very much! I learned a lot!!
Here is the code;
#include "logger.h" void Logger::logEvent(const QString &messageType, const QString &message) { QString colorizedMessage(message); if (colorizedMessage.contains(QRegularExpression("update"))) { colorizedMessage = QString("\e[1m\e[95m%1\e[0m").arg(colorizedMessage); } if (colorizedMessage.contains(QRegularExpression("check"))) { colorizedMessage = QString("\e[97m%1\e[0m").arg(colorizedMessage); } // Now `colorizedMessage` holds the original `message` with any escape sequences // so you can do with it as you will, e.g. // printing to display suppressed? if ( ! _suppressDisplay.contains(messageType) and ! _suppressDisplay.contains("all") ) { QString dateTimeStr(QDateTime::currentDateTime().toString("dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss:zzz")); logPrimitive() << QStringLiteral("[%1][%2]\t%3").arg(dateTimeStr, messageType, colorizedMessage) << endl; } // printing to logfile suppressed? if ( ! _suppressLog.contains(messageType) and ! _suppressLog.contains("all") ) { // write message to log QString dateTimeStr(QDateTime::currentDateTime().toString("dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss:zzz")); writeLogFile( QStringLiteral("[%1][%2]\t%3").arg(dateTimeStr, messageType, colorizedMessage) ); } }I noticed it only colored update and not the word check.
Not only update but the whole line is colored!
Now that means I have tweeking to do!@Cougar-0 said in Questions Concerning colorizing text in Ubuntu terminal.:
I noticed it only colored update and not the word check.
The word
checkcomes in yourmessageTypeparameter, not in themessageparameter which is where theupdate ...string is. Hence is does not get colorized.You would either have to:
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Subject the
messageTypeparameter to the same escape sequence injection as you do on themessageparameter. 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 thatfullMessageto the colorization code before outputting it instead of just themessage.
But I said a long time ago I am not volunteering to write all the code... :)
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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!
