Is it possible to color the output of `aafire`?
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The program seems cool, but giving it a red color really makes it look like my computer is on fire. I think using grep or similar piping command can do the trick, but I see that it prints ASCII escape codes for colors and removes the special formatting of the output that makes it look like fire.
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The program seems cool, but giving it a red color really makes it look like my computer is on fire. I think using grep or similar piping command can do the trick, but I see that it prints ASCII escape codes for colors and removes the special formatting of the output that makes it look like fire.
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The program seems cool, but giving it a red color really makes it look like my computer is on fire. I think using grep or similar piping command can do the trick, but I see that it prints ASCII escape codes for colors and removes the special formatting of the output that makes it look like fire.
terminal colors output
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The program seems cool, but giving it a red color really makes it look like my computer is on fire. I think using grep or similar piping command can do the trick, but I see that it prints ASCII escape codes for colors and removes the special formatting of the output that makes it look like fire.
terminal colors output
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Using command line flags, you can configure the output to display in your terminal rather than a popup window.
aafire -driver stdout -width 80 # match width of your terminal
aafire --help # see available options
Now, the color is controlled using your shell application's preferences. For example, I am using gnome-terminal on Ubuntu, so I just go to the menu Edit>Profile Preferences.
As far as changing the font color and background color itself, this appears to be possible in principle:
aatest
Notice that the first line has a blue background. I imagine this is accomplished with escape characters specifying the background color. You can find lots of discussion about this with people asking about changing their bash prompt color.
In order to insert your escape characters to change the color, I am not sure it would be possible to do this from the shell. Perhaps you could write a custom bash script that accepts input from stdin, pipe the output of aafire into your script, echo the color-changing characters, and finally echo the message from stdin.
Alternatively, you might have to call the library, for instance from a C program.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <aalib.h>
aa_context *context;
void main(int argc, char **argv)
{
if(!aa_parseoptions(NULL, NULL, &argc, argv) || argc!=1) {
printf("Usage: %s [options]n"
"Options:n"
"%s", argv[0], aa_help);
exit(1);
}
context = aa_autoinit(&aa_defparams);
if(context == NULL) {
fprintf(stderr,"Cannot initialize AA-lib. Sorryn");
exit(2);
}
...
aa_close(context);
}
Example source code from the aalib documentation.
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Using command line flags, you can configure the output to display in your terminal rather than a popup window.
aafire -driver stdout -width 80 # match width of your terminal
aafire --help # see available options
Now, the color is controlled using your shell application's preferences. For example, I am using gnome-terminal on Ubuntu, so I just go to the menu Edit>Profile Preferences.
As far as changing the font color and background color itself, this appears to be possible in principle:
aatest
Notice that the first line has a blue background. I imagine this is accomplished with escape characters specifying the background color. You can find lots of discussion about this with people asking about changing their bash prompt color.
In order to insert your escape characters to change the color, I am not sure it would be possible to do this from the shell. Perhaps you could write a custom bash script that accepts input from stdin, pipe the output of aafire into your script, echo the color-changing characters, and finally echo the message from stdin.
Alternatively, you might have to call the library, for instance from a C program.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <aalib.h>
aa_context *context;
void main(int argc, char **argv)
{
if(!aa_parseoptions(NULL, NULL, &argc, argv) || argc!=1) {
printf("Usage: %s [options]n"
"Options:n"
"%s", argv[0], aa_help);
exit(1);
}
context = aa_autoinit(&aa_defparams);
if(context == NULL) {
fprintf(stderr,"Cannot initialize AA-lib. Sorryn");
exit(2);
}
...
aa_close(context);
}
Example source code from the aalib documentation.
answered Jul 14 '17 at 8:21
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Using command line flags, you can configure the output to display in your terminal rather than a popup window.
aafire -driver stdout -width 80 # match width of your terminal
aafire --help # see available options
Now, the color is controlled using your shell application's preferences. For example, I am using gnome-terminal on Ubuntu, so I just go to the menu Edit>Profile Preferences.
As far as changing the font color and background color itself, this appears to be possible in principle:
aatest
Notice that the first line has a blue background. I imagine this is accomplished with escape characters specifying the background color. You can find lots of discussion about this with people asking about changing their bash prompt color.
In order to insert your escape characters to change the color, I am not sure it would be possible to do this from the shell. Perhaps you could write a custom bash script that accepts input from stdin, pipe the output of aafire into your script, echo the color-changing characters, and finally echo the message from stdin.
Alternatively, you might have to call the library, for instance from a C program.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <aalib.h>
aa_context *context;
void main(int argc, char **argv)
{
if(!aa_parseoptions(NULL, NULL, &argc, argv) || argc!=1) {
printf("Usage: %s [options]n"
"Options:n"
"%s", argv[0], aa_help);
exit(1);
}
context = aa_autoinit(&aa_defparams);
if(context == NULL) {
fprintf(stderr,"Cannot initialize AA-lib. Sorryn");
exit(2);
}
...
aa_close(context);
}
Example source code from the aalib documentation.
answered Jul 14 '17 at 8:21
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Using command line flags, you can configure the output to display in your terminal rather than a popup window.
aafire -driver stdout -width 80 # match width of your terminal
aafire --help # see available options
Now, the color is controlled using your shell application's preferences. For example, I am using gnome-terminal on Ubuntu, so I just go to the menu Edit>Profile Preferences.
As far as changing the font color and background color itself, this appears to be possible in principle:
aatest
Notice that the first line has a blue background. I imagine this is accomplished with escape characters specifying the background color. You can find lots of discussion about this with people asking about changing their bash prompt color.
In order to insert your escape characters to change the color, I am not sure it would be possible to do this from the shell. Perhaps you could write a custom bash script that accepts input from stdin, pipe the output of aafire into your script, echo the color-changing characters, and finally echo the message from stdin.
Alternatively, you might have to call the library, for instance from a C program.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <aalib.h>
aa_context *context;
void main(int argc, char **argv)
{
if(!aa_parseoptions(NULL, NULL, &argc, argv) || argc!=1) {
printf("Usage: %s [options]n"
"Options:n"
"%s", argv[0], aa_help);
exit(1);
}
context = aa_autoinit(&aa_defparams);
if(context == NULL) {
fprintf(stderr,"Cannot initialize AA-lib. Sorryn");
exit(2);
}
...
aa_close(context);
}
Example source code from the aalib documentation.
answered Jul 14 '17 at 8:21
nshiff
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Using command line flags, you can configure the output to display in your terminal rather than a popup window.
aafire -driver stdout -width 80 # match width of your terminal
aafire --help # see available options
Now, the color is controlled using your shell application's preferences. For example, I am using gnome-terminal on Ubuntu, so I just go to the menu Edit>Profile Preferences.
As far as changing the font color and background color itself, this appears to be possible in principle:
aatest
Notice that the first line has a blue background. I imagine this is accomplished with escape characters specifying the background color. You can find lots of discussion about this with people asking about changing their bash prompt color.
In order to insert your escape characters to change the color, I am not sure it would be possible to do this from the shell. Perhaps you could write a custom bash script that accepts input from stdin, pipe the output of aafire into your script, echo the color-changing characters, and finally echo the message from stdin.
Alternatively, you might have to call the library, for instance from a C program.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <aalib.h>
aa_context *context;
void main(int argc, char **argv)
{
if(!aa_parseoptions(NULL, NULL, &argc, argv) || argc!=1) {
printf("Usage: %s [options]n"
"Options:n"
"%s", argv[0], aa_help);
exit(1);
}
context = aa_autoinit(&aa_defparams);
if(context == NULL) {
fprintf(stderr,"Cannot initialize AA-lib. Sorryn");
exit(2);
}
...
aa_close(context);
}
Example source code from the aalib documentation.
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