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Rahel Miz
Rahel Miz

Reputation: 159

C: display colored output to console not working

I am using Xcode and trying to display colored output to the console. it isn't working and I don't know why, I've looked at other stack overflow posts and tried the code that works. help is appreciated!

  #include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>
#define ANSI_COLOR_RESET "\x1b[0m"
#define ANSI_COLOR_CYAN "\x1b[36m"


void dispWrongs(char guess, int wordLength);

int main(void) {
        srand(time(NULL));            //sends a "seed" for random number generation
   
    printf(ANSI_COLOR_CYAN "                       _        _            \n");
    printf(ANSI_COLOR_CYAN "  ___ ___  _   _ _ __ | |_ _ __(_) ___  ___  \n");
    printf(ANSI_COLOR_CYAN " / __/ _ \\| | | | '_ \\| __| '__| |/ _ \\/ __\\ \n");
    printf(ANSI_COLOR_CYAN "| (_| (_) | |_| | | | | |_| |  | |  __/\\__ \\ \n");
    printf(ANSI_COLOR_CYAN " \\___\\___/ \\__,_|_| |_|\\__|_|  |_|\\___||___/"ANSI_COLOR_RESET"\n");
  
return 0;
}

Upvotes: 2

Views: 384

Answers (1)

Brecht Sanders
Brecht Sanders

Reputation: 7287

You're using VT/ANSI codes. For that to work, make sure you run the application in a terminal window that supports this.

The macOS Terminal app is in the Utilities folder in Applications.

But if you want a smarter way of displaying colors you should use a curses library (like ncurses), as it will detect the right way to display color for the type of terminal you are using to run the application.

Upvotes: 1

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