crolorama

Easy text coloring and styling in Crystal. Currently only support for systems with ANSI support.

Tested only on Linux.

Installation

1. Add the dependency to your shard.yml:

   dependencies:
     crolorama:
       github: simplylu/crolorama
   

2. Run shards install

Usage

require "crolorama"
crol = Crolorama::Color.new

puts "This is #{crol.fg("red")}RED#{crol.reset}"

Available methods

• Change foreground color: crol.fg
• Change background color: crol.bg
• Change text style: crol.style
• Reset colors: crol.reset
• Reset all (including styles): crol.reset_all

Experimental

• Move cursor n lines up: crol.up n
• Move cursor n lines down: crol.down n
• Move cursor n lines forward: crol.forward n
• Move cursor n lines back: crol.back n
• Position cursor at x across, y down: crol.pos x, y

Example: crystal run src/example.cr

Available colors: crystal run src/colors.cr

Development

This shard is mainly oriented towards the colorama module of python. In case you wanna add new features, see Contributing.

Contributing

1. Fork it (https://github.com/simplylu/crolorama/fork)
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

Contributors

• simplylu - creator and maintainer