asTruecolour

Produces a terminal colour token for the colour passed, expressed in terms of red, green and blue. Convenience function to colour a piece of text without being passed an output sink to fill into.

version(Colours)

pure @safe

string

asTruecolour

(

const string word

const uint r

const uint g

const uint b

const bool brightTerminal = false

const bool normalise = true

)

Parameters

word string: String to tint.
r uint: Red value.
g uint: Green value.
b uint: Blue value.
normalise bool: Whether or not to normalise colours so that they aren't too dark or too bright.

Return Value

Type: string

The passed string word encompassed by terminal colour tags.

Examples

string foo = "Foo Bar".asTruecolour(172, 172, 255);

int r, g, b;
numFromHex("003388", r, g, b);
string bar = "Bar Foo".asTruecolour(r, g, b);

import std.format : format;

immutable name = "blarbhl".asTruecolour(255, 255, 255, brightTerminal: false, normalise: false);
immutable alsoName = "%c[38;2;%d;%d;%dm%s%c[0m"
    .format(cast(char)TerminalToken.format, 255, 255, 255,
       "blarbhl", cast(char)TerminalToken.format);

assert((name == alsoName), alsoName);

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