[Feature] Color support? about zero HOT 7 CLOSED

@richrd @loganzartman

I've put a rough implementation of true color in the feature/true-color branch. It needs testing and a few more optimizations. Initial tests on windows/cygwin (without TTY) and a Linux Mint terminal seem to work alright, but there is likely room to improve performance. Running true color on Windows CMD / Powershell are completely broken by default which is expected. The GIF below is running out of a VirtualBox linux instance, framerate is about on par with the GIF (with fontsize dropped to 2)

I don't own a OSX device so cannot test there. Open to any feedback if either of you own a Mac. Can run out of the feature/true-color branch with the following.

# clone the project
$ git checkout feature/true-color
$ npm install
$ npm run build
$ node index --color

from zero.

Hi, thanks for the suggestion.

I may actually take another look at this when I next get a bit of free time. It should be possible to implement ANSI true color and just have it enabled behind a --color flag. I did run a couple of tests on this and note that performance does degrade quite a bit with the color (its a lot more buffer throughput written to the terminal), but still could be interesting for terminals that support it.

from zero.

Greetings from 2022! I love this project.

I thought you might like to see how well true color runs these days. This is on a Mac M1 Max, in iTerm 3.0.

from zero.

@liamdon Hey thanks for sharing :D That looks like it runs pretty great!

from zero.

You mentioned in #5 that terminals have limited support for truecolor. While it is more challenging to detect , many of them (including Windows console in Windows 10 when ENABLE_VIRTUAL_TERMINAL_PROCESSING is set) actually do support it . Alternatively, almost any terminal will support 256 color mode, and it is fairly easy to do a rough conversion from RGB.

Sorry, I can't remember which reference I used for the color palette.

from zero.

Have pushed a release to npm [email protected]. The color support is fairly experimental, so your mileage may vary depending on the capabilities of your terminal. Can test it out with..

$ npx zero-demo@latest --color

Have fun!

from zero.

Wow thanks! That's amazing! Works great on my Linux machine. I might be able to test on OSX at work.
You sir are a legend :)

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