[FFmpeg-cvslog] r22946 - trunk/libavutil/log.c

[Måns Rullgård]

Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> writes:

> On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 10:01:22PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>> Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> writes:
>> 
>> > On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 09:32:24PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>> >> Please revert or disable this code while you figure out something that
>> >> works.
>> >
>> > ok
>> > does anyone know how we can cleanly detect if the used terminal supports
>> > ANSI codes?
>> 
>> That's what termcap/terminfo is for.  This means either using ncurses
>> or doing a lot of dirty work ourselves, neither of which is very
>> thrilling.
>
> :/
>
> what about getenv("TERM") and an array of terms that support ANSI?

That's the wrong solution.  Using curses would also make it work on
non-ANSI terminals with colour information in terminfo.  Let's see how
hard it is to do this with curses before embarking on further hack
trails.

>> On windows ANSI codes work only if the ansi.sys driver is loaded.  I
>> don't know if that can be detected.  I also don't know about other
>> systems.
>
> on dos there was the mem command that listed things (like ps)
> it should list ansi.sys too

Smells like a hack.

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