libtermcolor

libtermcolor allows you to add flair to your messages with colors, italics and other graphics. Currently it supports:

• Foreground and background
• Italics and bold
• Strikethrough, underline and blinking

Documentation is provided through comments in the header file. See use.md for more information.

The main API provided is through these three functions:

int tcol_fprintf(FILE* stream, const char* fmt, ...);
int tcol_printf(const char* fmt, ...);

tcol_printf behaves the same as tcol_fprintf except that stream is by default the standard output.

These functions are exactly the same as normal printf except that you can specify colors within brackets. You can escape left brackets with {{.

The color is specified within a left and right bracket. There can be as many spaces as you want, but other than that it must only contain valid character sequences. use.md explains these sequences in full.

The following code displays "Hello, world!" in rainbow colors, all bold:

int result = tcol_printf("{+}{R}H{G}e{Y}l{C}l{M}o{W}, {G}w{C}o{R}r{B}l{W}d{Y}!{0}\n");
if (result != TermColorErrorNone) {
    printf("error: %s\n", tcol_errorstr(result));
    return 1;
}

Building

First, clone the repo and move in it

git clone https://github.com/euppal/libtermcolor
cd libtermcolor

To build libtermcolor, use

make

this will build the static and dynamic libraries, along with a test program (called demo).

you can build the static library using make static and the dynamic one with make dynamic and make static