For those who requested ANSI codes, I had this laying around from previous
postings.
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Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 13:12:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: Barid Bel Medar <icarus@berkshire.net>
To: katzlbt@vuse.vanderbilt.edu
Cc: circle@pvv.unit.no
Subject: Re: ANSI (color)codes ...
On Tue, 23 Apr 1996, Katzlberger Thomas wrote:
>
> Hi all ...
>
> I tried to connect to the ANSI www site and
> forund out that they charge you MONEY for
> getting out their codes this really SUCKS !
>
> Anyone know more of them ?
Yes. Lookie:
Parameters used in ANSI escape sequences
Pn Numeric parameter. Specifies a decimal number.
Ps Selective parameter. Specifies a decimal number that you use
to select a function. You can specify more than one function by
separating the parameters with semicolons.
PL Line parameter. Specifies a decimal number that represents one of
the lines on your display or on another device.
Pc Column parameter. Specifies a decimal number that represents one
of the columns on your screen or on another device.
ANSI escape sequences for cursor movement, graphics, and keyboard settings
In the following list of ANSI escape sequences, the abbreviation ASC
represents the ASCII escape character 27 (1Bh), which appears at the
beginning of each escape sequence.
ESC[PL;PcH
Cursor Position Moves the cursor to the specified position
(coordinates). If you do not specify a position, the cursor
moves to the home position - the upper-left corner of the
screen (line 0, column 0). This escape sequence works the same
way as the following Cursor Position escape sequence.
ESC[PL;Pcf
Cursor Position Works the same way as the preceding Cursor
Position escape sequence.
ESC[PnA
Cursor Up Moves the cursor up by the specified number of lines
without changing columns. If the cursor is already on the top
line, ANSI.SYS ignores this sequence.
ESC[PnB
Cursor Down Moves the cursor down by the specified number of lines
without changing columns. If the cursor is already on the bottom
of the line, ANSI.SYS ignores this sequence.
ESC[PnC
Cursor Forward Moves the cursor forward by the specified number
of columns without changing lines. If the cursor is already in the
rightmost column, ANSI.SYS ignores this sequence.
ESC[PnD
Cursor Backward Moves the cursor back by the specified number of
columns without changing lines. If the cursor is already in the
leftmost column, ANSI.SYS ignores this sequence.
ESC[s
Save Cursor Position Saves the current cursor position. You can
move the cursor to the saved cursor position by using the
Restore Cursor Position sequence.
ESC[u
Restore Cursor Position Returns the cursor to the position
stored by the Save Cursor Position sequence.
ESC[2J
Erase Display Clears the screen and moves the cursor to the home
position (line 0, column 0).
ESC[K
Erase Line Clears all characters from the cursor position to the
end of the line (including the character at the cursor position).
ESC[Ps;...;Psm
Set Graphics Mode Calls the graphics functions specified by the
following values. These specified functions remain active until
the next occurrence of this escape sequence.
Text attributes
0 All attributes off
1 Bold on
4 Underscore (on monochrome display adapter only)
5 Blink on
7 Reverse video on
8 Concealed on
Foreground colors
30 Black
31 Red
32 Green
33 Yellow
34 Blue
35 Magenta
36 Cyan
37 White
Background colors
40 Black
41 Red
42 Green
43 Yellow
44 Blue
45 Magenta
46 Cyan
47 White
Parameters 30 through 47 meet the ISO 6429 standard.
ESC[=Psh
Set Mode Changes the screen width or type to the mode specified by
one of the following values:
0 40x25 monochrome (text)
1 40x25 color (text)
2 80x25 monochrome (text)
3 80x25 color (text)
4 320x200 4-color (graphics)
5 320x200 monochrome (graphics)
6 640x200 monochrome (graphics)
7 Enables line wrapping
13 320x200 color (graphics)
14 640x200 color (16-color graphics)
15 640x350 monochrome (2-color graphics)
16 640x350 color (16-color graphics)
17 640x480 monochrome (2-color graphics)
18 640x480 color (16-color graphics)
19 320x200 color (256-color graphics)
ESC[=Psl
Reset Mode Resets the mode by using the same values that Set Mode
uses, except for 7, which disables line wrapping. The last character
in this escape sequence is a lowecase L.
ESC[code;string;...p
Set Keyboard String Redefines a keyboard key to a specified string.
The parameters for this escape sequence are defined as follows:
* Code is one or more of the values listed in the following table. (Not
duplicated here.) These values represent keyboard keys and key
combinations. When using these values in a command, you must type the
semicolons shown in this table in addition to the semicolons required
by the escape sequence. The codes in parentheses are not available on
some keyboards. ANSI.SYS might not interpret some of the codes in
parantheses unless you specify the /x switch in the device command for
ANSI.SYS
* String is either the ASCII code for a single character or a string
contained in quotation marks. For example, both 65 and "A" can be
used to represent an uppercase A.
IMPORTANT Some of the values in the following table are not valid for
all computers. Check your computer's documentation for values that
are different.
(From the IBM DOS User's Guide and Reference for DOS 5.00, pp. 635-639)
> Do you have to reset the color before each change ?
No. You can also omit the "text attributes" field from the string if
it's the same. For example, from bright white to bright blue, it's safe
to skip that. But from bright white to regular blue, you'd have to start
with attribute zero.
> My client doesn't care it sets absolute colors
> depending on the code.
As it should.
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