NAME

Meta::Utils::Color - give you options to color the text you're writing.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2001 Mark Veltzer; All rights reserved.

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.

DETAILS

MANIFEST: Color.pm PROJECT: meta

SYNOPSIS

package foo; use Meta::Utils::Color qw(); Meta::Utils::Color::set_color(*FILE,"red"); Meta::Utils::Output::print("Hello, World!\n");

DESCRIPTION

This is a library to give you a clean interface to the ANSIColor.pm module which enables nice coloring and emition of color escape codes for terminals and texts.

EXPORTS

set_color($$) get_color($) get_reset() reset($)

FUNCTION DOCUMENTATION

set_color($$)

This sets the current color for writing to the file received.

get_color($)

This returns the escape sequence needed to provide a certain color on the console.

get_reset()

This method return the escape sequence needed to reset the color on the console.

reset($)

This resets the color to the regular color and avoids all kinds of weird side effects (for the file specified of course).

BUGS

None.

AUTHOR

Mark Veltzer <mark2776@yahoo.com>

HISTORY

start of revision info 1 Mon Jan 1 16:38:12 2001 MV initial code brought in 2 Sat Jan 6 11:39:39 2001 MV make quality checks on perl code 3 Sat Jan 6 17:14:09 2001 MV more perl checks 4 Tue Jan 9 18:15:19 2001 MV check that all uses have qw 4 Tue Jan 9 19:29:31 2001 MV fix todo items look in pod documentation 5 Wed Jan 10 12:05:55 2001 MV more on tests/more checks to perl 6 Mon Jan 15 22:37:09 2001 MV cleanup tests change 7 Sun Jan 28 02:34:56 2001 MV perl code quality 8 Sun Jan 28 13:51:26 2001 MV more perl quality 9 Tue Jan 30 03:03:17 2001 MV more perl quality 10 Sat Feb 3 23:41:08 2001 MV perl documentation 11 Mon Feb 5 03:21:02 2001 MV more perl quality 12 Tue Feb 6 01:04:52 2001 MV perl qulity code 13 Tue Feb 6 07:02:13 2001 MV more perl code quality 14 Tue Feb 6 22:19:51 2001 MV revision change end of revision info

SEE ALSO

Nothing.

TODO

Nothing.