Colors in Windows

[darikg]

It looks like win32_output.py maps all colors to the closest color in a 16-color table. ConEmu supports ANSI color codes. Is it possible to detect which console is being used and only fall back to 16-bit color if necessary?

[jonathanslenders]

That should be possible. ConEmu sets the ConEmuANSI environment variable when it has ANSI colors enabled. I guess it should be easy to switch to 256 colors in that case. I'll have a look. Thanks for the suggestion!

See: https://code.google.com/p/conemu-maximus5/wiki/ConEmuEnvironment

[jonathanslenders]

It should work now: 17b8a3a

However, for some reason ConEmu only supports 256 colors in the "bottom region". So you have to print print('\x1b[9999;1H') to make it scroll to the bottom first. (I don't like it entirely, but the colors look good.)

[jonathanslenders]

See: Maximus5/ConEmu#227

[jonathanslenders]

The latest release always uses ANSI escape codes when ConEmu has been detected. However, unfortunately 256 colors only works in the bottom region.
I close this, because there is nothing more on our side that we can do.