2009/9/21 Hannes Magnusson <[email protected]>:
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 12:59, Richard Quadling
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> doing, it can be done quite easily using the REG command from the
>> Windows Resource Toolkit.
>>
>> REG ADD "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor" /v AutoRun /t
>> REG_SZ /d "C:\Utils\ANSICon.exe -p"
>
> Right, but that has to be done when installing the application, not
> every time phd.bat is executed.
Agreed. And the ANSICON instructions could easily be amended to show this.
> And we would also have to detect if the system supports it rather then
> blindly polluting the registry.
"blindly polluting the registry" ?
>From cmd /? ...
"If /D was NOT specified on the command line, then when CMD.EXE starts, it
looks for the following REG_SZ/REG_EXPAND_SZ registry variables, and if
either or both are present, they are executed first.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor\AutoRun
and/or
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor\AutoRun"
This is "blindly polluting", but a completely standard and supported
facility, albeit an obscure one.
As for detection, once ANSICON is loaded, the ANSICON environment variable.
But maybe ANSICon needs a small installer which has the option of
doing this (Jason - possible?) automatically for those too nervous of
editing registry.
>
> Plus, afaik, the PEAR installer doesn't support doing such things.
>
!is_null(getenv('ANSICON')) ?
> -Hannes
>
I think that whilst windows no longer has coloured console output as
standard, a free alternative is a viable option.
The other option is to disable coloured output when on windows, but if
that was the case, I would like the option of having a mechanism to
enable this without having to add it to the command line every time -
yet another env_var?
The source is available. Jason has been very receptive to the issues
that I've raised.
Richard
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