----- Original Message ----- From: "Erik Hatcher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ant Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 4:12 PM Subject: Re: ANSI Color Logger
> +1 > > What we really need now is a way to chain loggers together. My changes to > DefaultLogger made it subclassable at least, so I'd recommend that your > color logger subclass DefaultLogger (see MailLogger) > oh, and design it to be subclassable so that the implementation of coloured output can be redone; lets someone write a native win32 lib to call ::WriteConsoleColorAttribute() to set the colour of chars after they are written. > > It doesn't work on WinNT even with > > ANSI.SYS loaded and in command.com mode. blech. Apparently dave cutler didnt belive in GUIs, so he wrote a good console mode for nt instead. All I can say is that he didnt seem to believe in coloured console windows and he certainly didnt believe in making kernel dev easy. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
