🚀 LTC provides a convenient way to use Color in the Terminal using C/C++ & Rust

When you want to use it in your project it's really Easy just get the newest libtermcolor.h from the Releases Tab. Then put this file in your src/ folder and include the Libary with

#include "libtermcolor.h"

If you have it another location have to replace libtermcolor.h with your path to the .h file.

For Rust you have to add it the following in your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
libtermcolor = "<version>"

or use the following command:

cargo add libtermcolor

If you just want an example just can look at for C/C++ example/main.cpp and example.rs for Rust.

colors::RED.regular
         ^     ^
         |     |
       Color TYPE

use libtermcolor::colors; <-- Import the Libary

colors::red().regular
         ^       ^
         |       |
       Color   TYPE

Color: This specifies what color you want to use as List can be found at #Colors or by typing colors:: and pressing CTRL + SPACE in your code.
Type: The type says if it should be:

• Bold
• Underline
• Background (This is for changing Background Color)
• Reset (This will reset the effect of before specified Colors)

colors::RESET

You can also get The Colors by string with the following:

colors::getColorCode("RED", "REGULAR")
                       ^        ^
                       |        |
                     Color    Type

colors::get_color_code("RED", "REGULAR");
                         ^        ^
                         |        |
                       Color     Type

I have written a quick example that will output every Color + It's states:

#include <iostream>
#include "libtermcolor.h"

int main() {
    for (const auto& pair : colors::color_map) {
        std::cout << pair.second.background << pair.first << colors::RESET << ":\n";
        std::cout << colors::BLACK.background << "  Regular:    " << colors::RESET << pair.second.regular << pair.first << pair.second.reset << std::endl;
        std::cout << colors::BLACK.background << "  Bold:       " << colors::RESET << pair.second.bold << pair.first << pair.second.reset << std::endl;
        std::cout << colors::BLACK.background << "  Underline:  " << colors::RESET << pair.second.underline << pair.first << pair.second.reset << std::endl;
        std::cout << colors::BLACK.background << "  Background: " << colors::RESET << pair.second.background << pair.first << pair.second.reset << std::endl;
    }
    return 0;
}

This code can also be found at example/main.cpp.

use libtermcolor::colors;

fn main() {
    for (color_name, color_attributes) in colors::COLOR_MAP.iter() {
        println!("{}{}{}:", color_attributes.background, color_name, colors::reset());
        println!("  Regular:    {}{}{}{}", color_attributes.regular, color_name, color_attributes.reset, colors::reset());
        println!("  Bold:       {}{}{}{}", color_attributes.bold, color_name, color_attributes.reset, colors::reset());
        println!("  Underline:  {}{}{}{}", color_attributes.underline, color_name, color_attributes.reset, colors::reset());
        println!("  Background: {}{}{}{}", color_attributes.background, color_name, color_attributes.reset, colors::reset());
    }
}

This code can also be found at example/main.rs.

- BLACK
- BRIGHT_BLACK
- RED
- BRIGHT_RED
- GREEN
- BRIGHT_GREEN
- YELLOW
- BRIGHT_YELLOW
- BLUE
- BRIGHT_BLUE
- MAGENTA
- BRIGHT_MAGENTA
- CYAN
- BRIGHT_CYAN
- WHITE
- BRIGHT_WHITE

You can use the example to test your Code.

You can compile and test the example with the following command:

make clean
make build
./output/main

cd example
cargo build

cargo build