John Siracusa wrote: > On 4/8/02 2:41 AM, Stas Bekman wrote: > >>I've searched google, but didn't find any info regarding Term::ANSIColor >>and suggesting good cross-platform, cross-terminal colors. > > > Maybe I didn't understand the earlier part of your message, but can't you > specify both the foreground and the background color of text? It'd be ugly, > but if you specified both you could be (relatively) sure the colors would > show up.
Try it. The results are ugly. > If you really want to be safe, you can use an old-style attention-grabbing > technique like this: > > ********** ################## ********** > WARNING!!!!!!! > ********** ################## ********** > > blah blah blah > > ********** ################## ********** > WARNING!!!!!!! > ********** ################## ********** well, yes, if we don't figure out how to keep the color and have people happy, we will need to do something like that. But it'll make the output even longer :( Also there is an alternative way, try runnning with APACHE_TEST_NO_COLOR=1 perl Makefile.PL this is a poor man's version of non-coloured, but still distinguishable printing. > People will see stuff like that :) Or you could take the high road and just > print it normally. As long as it's the last thing printed (i.e. It doesn't > scroll by while they're away or in another window), people will probably > read it :) And if not, it could be argued that they get what they deserve > ;) Sure, but those people end up asking questions here :). And it takes a few emails before you figure out that they had a warning and ignored it. So if we can make these stand out, that would save a lot of time to everybody. Hmm, should we beep on every error? :) beep; beep; beep; ...; beep() x 100; ;) __________________________________________________________________ Stas Bekman JAm_pH ------> Just Another mod_perl Hacker http://stason.org/ mod_perl Guide ---> http://perl.apache.org mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://use.perl.org http://apacheweek.com http://modperlbook.org http://apache.org http://ticketmaster.com
