The file handle going into the Win32 Console doesn't do ANSI terminal controls or anything like that.

But, it looks like Win32::ANSIConsole is a wrapper to intercept the control codes and call the Console API to do things between sending the output on to the real device handle. It looks like exactly what you need.

If that's too rough for you, get inspiration from it. Write your own filehandle tie that calls the Win32::Console commands to position the cursor, draw text, change colors, etc.

Hmm, I wonder why nobody has written something you can pipe into that does this.

For another idea, I just did some colorized output in a program, but was using a Tk text window for the output, along with some GUI buttons and indicators. You might want to do that, so you can implement your status indicator plus a colored console within a window, rather than using a TTY.

—John

In reply to Re: Stupid console tricks (or color highlighted tail) by John M. Dlugosz
in thread Stupid console tricks (or color highlighted tail) by icius

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