QAnsiTextEdit is a widget to display text that uses ANSI codes to colorize the text's foreground and background colors. Text underlining and bolding is also supported.
QAnsiTextEdit is an extention to Qt's QPlainTextEdit widget. It add these api's that support ANSI codes.
void QAnsiTextEdit::setAnsiText (const QString& text);
void QAnsiTextEdit::appendAnsiText (const QString& text);
void QAnsiTextEdit::insertAnsiText (const QString& text);
It should be assumed to use QAnsiTextEdit in readonly mode. Also, using
your own QTextCursor will likely not behave well.
To use QAnsiTextEdit, copy the QAnsiTextEdit.h and QAnsiTextEdit.cpp files to your project.
Running the test program will show a window with text printed using ANSI codes.
Look at main.cpp to see how the text is sent to QAnsiTextEdit and to
the console.
The test program uses ANSI-color-codes.h from
https://gist.github.com/RabaDabaDoba/145049536f815903c79944599c6f952a
to easily print text with ANSI codes.
Download the latest code using 'clone'.
% git clone https://github.com/epasveer/QAnsiTextEdit
Setup cmake and build
% cd QAnsiTextEdit/src
% cd build
% cmake ..
% make
Install it (or not), which will usually copy it to /usr/local/bin. May need root access.
% cd QAnsiTextEdit/src/build
% sudo make install
QAnsiTextEdit source code is licensed under the MIT License.