Colored output in netbeans console with ansicodes

Question

I am trying to get a colored output in my Netbeans output window.

Ansi-Output in Linux and Windows console works perfectly fine. However not in the IDE.

Is there a way to make this work in Netbeans' output window?

According to this https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=214546 it should work, but it doesn't in my current Netbeans 8.0.1 installation (neither Linux nor Windows).

Any hints on how to do that?

Answer 1

I am using Netbeans 8.0.1 myself, on Windows 7. I just tried ANSI escape code, and it works. Example:

String greenBold = "\033[32;1m";
String reset = "\033[0m";
System.out.println("before" + greenBold + " green " + reset + "after");