bes-color

bes-color is a small bash bes display true colors utility library

Install

add bes-color to your require section in bes.ini

[require]
bes.color   = 1.1

then do

bes-build update

Usage

by convention all color varnames begins with a 'C' uppercase followed by a name in lowercase

predefined colors :

• $Chead
• $Cheadsep
• $Cheadline
• $Ctitle
• $Cdone
• $Cfail
• $Csep
• $Cerr
• $Cval
• $Ckey
• $Caction
• $Csymbol
• $Citem
• $Cusa
• $Cspe
• $Copt
• $Ccom
• $Ctext
• $Cmeta

use special var $Coff to disable previous color effects.

ex :

    echo -e "${Ctitle} mytitle${Coff}"

use config file to load colors

color.load "/your/path/colors.ini"

without parameter, color.load function try to load the default location /usr/share/bes/colors.ini

contents of colors.ini file :

[set]
#           background    foreground
#           R   G   B      R   G   B
head     =  53 114 160    195 223 255
headsep  =  53 114 160    252 212 102

[bg]
#           background
#           R   G   B
one      =  63 172 138
fail     = 172  63  85

[fg]
#           foreground
#           R   G   B
title    = 133  92 181
headline =  22  74 133
sep      =  80  80  80
err      = 194  48  64
val      = 255 175  95
key      =  40 168 134
action   = 106 183 241 
symbol   = 255 175  95
item     =  92 147 181
usa      = 255 172   0
spe      = 255 214 166
opt      =  94 215 255
com      = 175 135 175
text     =   0 132 101
meta     =  39 100 170 

in colors.ini config file, var names are without 'C' prefix

set foreground

#                    R   G    B
color.fg "myfgcolor" 185  69  69
echo -e "$Cmyfgcolor foreground $Coff"

set background color

#                      R   G    B
color.bg "mybgcolor" 69  185  185
echo -e "$Cmybgcolor background $Coff"

mix background color and foreground color

echo -e "$Cmybgcolor background $Cmyfgcolor foregound $Coff"
echo -e "$Cmyfgcolor foreground $Cmybgcolor backgound $Coff"

set background and foreground

#                      background  foreground
#                      R   G   B    R   G   B
color.set "mycolor"    69 185 185  185  69  69
echo -e "$Cmycolor cool $Coff"

disabling colors

# set
BES_NOCOLOR=1