Patrick, Thanks for the new appender, looks good so far. I will see if I can get it to work under my cygwin rxvt terminal. Just thinking about the name, I can think of the following possibilities:
AnsiColoredConsoleAppender ColoredAnsiConsoleAppender ColoredAnsiTerminalAppender Any thoughts, Nicko > -----Original Message----- > From: Patrick Wagstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 28 August 2004 16:58 > To: [email protected] > Subject: ColoredConsoleAppender for non Windows Platforms > > Hi, > > I'm new to the list and at the moment the archives seem to be > a bit broken, so my apologies if this is the wrong protocol > to submit an addition. > > I've been using Log4Net under Mono on Linux and MacOSX for > some of my research and quickly became jealous that there was > no way to get the ColoredConsoleAppender under these > platforms because of the use of Win32 APIs. However, it's > not difficult to do color on these platforms, just send out > ANSI escape sequences. > > With that in mind, I present AnsiColoredConsoleAppender. > Just drop it in with the other Appenders and recompile > log4net and you can use it. > Syntax works about the same as ColoredConsoleAppender with > the exception that foreColor and backColor can only be a > color (none of the HighIntensity stuff). There also is a new > tag, "attrs", that can be one of Bright, Dim, Underscore, > Blink, Reverse, Hidden, or Strikethrough. > > Needless to say, it's based heavily on the > ColoredConsoleAppender and ConsoleAppender. So props to Rick > Hobbs and Nicko Cadell. > > I've attached the code to this message, but if the list > strips it out, you can also find it at: > > http://patrick.wagstrom.net/projects/personal/log4net/AnsiColo > redConsoleAppender.cs > > Feedback would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Patrick Wagstrom >
