java using color with System.out??

caged · 01-18-2005, 07:38 PM

Hi.

Does anyone know a way of using System.out.println("whatever") so that i can define the color of the string output to the screen?

cheers.
Ben.

jlliagre · 01-19-2005, 01:58 AM

Assuming your terminal emulator is accepting ansi color sequences, which is nowadays almost always the case, you can send escape sequences that change the foreground and background colors.

e.g.: System.out.println("\033[31m\033[44mHello world\033[0m\n");