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EasyCL

a simple and easy to use C/C++ library to print colored and styled text, control console cursor and much more in windows and linux.

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Documentation

Documentation can be found in doc/EasyCLI.md file.

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a simple example

download the latest release, include the header file and link to the library at compile time. the following code is a simple example of using EasyCLI.

// main.c
#include "EasyCLI.h"

int main(void){
#ifdef _WIN32
    EC_ConsoleEnableVTMode(); // enable Virtual Terminal in windows
#endif

    EC_PrintColored("{R}Hello World{0} in Red!\n");

    EC_SetColorMode(EC_COLORMODE_Enabled);
    EC_Print("{_B}{#M}UNDERLINED BLACK TEXT WITH PURPLE BACKGROUND!{0}\n");

#ifdef _WIN32
    EC_ConsoleResetMode(); // turn console back to its previous mode.
#endif
}

Compiling :

gcc main.c libEasyCLI.a // STATIC Linking
// or
gcc main.c libEasyCLI.so // Shared Linking in linux
//or
gcc main.c libEasyCLI.dll // Shared Linking in windows

output :

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How it Works

EasyCLI uses ANSI escape sequences which most modern terminals support. for example ESC[ n m which changes the color of text in front of it.

all of the sequences used in EasyCLI are taken from the following sources : Wikipedia
Microsoft Docs
XTerm Control Sequences