Using 256 colors in Go-CodePudding

How Can I used 256 colors in terminal with Golang.

As Libraries like faith/color only have limited colors support.

This python library here

use some kind of default code and a color code to print colored text in terminal.

I try to use color code but instead of color it printing color code in go program but in python program it prints colored text.

How can I print color use color code as above library doing...

Do I need to initialize the terminal ? If yes How?

Thanks!

I am expecting 256 colors to print in terminal.

*go version: 1.18.7

CodePudding user response：

Windows can be weird. In some cases you need to set the console mode. If you are using Windows, specify it as part of your question.

colors.go:

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "strconv"
)

func main() {
    setConsoleColors()

    for i := 0; i < 16; i   {
        for j := 0; j < 16; j   {
            code := strconv.Itoa(i*16   j)
            color := "\u001b[38;5;"   code   "m"
            fmt.Printf("%s %-4s", color, code)
        }
        fmt.Println()
    }
    fmt.Print("\u001b[0m")
}

colors_windows.go:

//go:build windows

package main

import "golang.org/x/sys/windows"

func setConsoleColors() error {
    console := windows.Stdout
    var consoleMode uint32
    windows.GetConsoleMode(console, &consoleMode)
    consoleMode |= windows.ENABLE_VIRTUAL_TERMINAL_PROCESSING
    return windows.SetConsoleMode(console, consoleMode)
}

colors_other.go:

//go:build !windows

package main

func setConsoleColors() error {
    return nil
}