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[SOLVED] Qt Creator - Terminal Text Color

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    goocreations
    wrote on 7 Jun 2013, 09:13 last edited by
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    I'm running Ubuntu and Qt Creator 2.7.0. The terminal output at the bottom of QT Creator: can it output text colors as specified "here":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#Colors ? I correctly shows up in gnome-terminal and xterm, but when running it in Qt Creator, the characters are not escaped and I get plain output, for example:

    @[1;32mStatus: [1;34mThemeManager[1;37m Theme loaded. [0m@

    Any ideas on how to enable the colors?

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      tobias.hunger
      wrote on 10 Jun 2013, 20:00 last edited by
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      Qt Creator does not support ANSI sequences. So you will need to run this in a terminal to see the proper colors.

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        goocreations
        wrote on 11 Jun 2013, 05:27 last edited by
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        I've figured that out. There are already a number of requests for this on the Qt bug tracker. We'll have to wait and see what happens. Thanks anyway.

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          tobias.hunger
          wrote on 12 Jun 2013, 09:30 last edited by
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          Currently I do not plan on implementing this.

          I recently did a filter to remove ANSI codes from the compiler output and getting that working was annoying enough enough;)

          Full ANSI support is a huge task, and I doubt that it is worth the effort to do it. Maybe if somebody writes a good cross-platform terminal emulator that we can integrate...

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