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NAME

Term::App::Util::Color - Determine color depth and whether to use color or not

VERSION

This document describes version 0.003 of Term::App::Util::Color (from Perl distribution Term-App-Util-Color), released on 2021-03-14.

DESCRIPTION

FUNCTIONS

term_app_color_depth

Usage:

term_app_color_depth() -> [status, msg, payload, meta]

Try to determine the suitable color depth to use.

Will first check COLORTERM environment variable to see if its value is truecolor; if yes then depth is 2**24 (24 bit).

Then will check COLOR_DEPTH environment variable and use that if defined.

Otherwise will check COLOR environment variable and use that as color depth if defined and the value looks like color depth (e.g. 256 or 24bit).

Otherwise will try to detect terminal emulation software and use the highest supported color depth of that terminal software.

Otherwise will default to 16.

This function is not exported.

No arguments.

Returns an enveloped result (an array).

First element (status) is an integer containing HTTP status code (200 means OK, 4xx caller error, 5xx function error). Second element (msg) is a string containing error message, or 'OK' if status is 200. Third element (payload) is optional, the actual result. Fourth element (meta) is called result metadata and is optional, a hash that contains extra information.

Return value: (any)

term_app_should_use_color

Usage:

term_app_should_use_color() -> [status, msg, payload, meta]

Try to determine whether colors should be used. First will check NO_COLOR environment variable and return false if it exists. Otherwise will check the COLOR environment variable and use it if it's defined. Otherwise will check the COLOR_DEPTH environment variable and if defined will use color when color depth is > 0. Otherwise will check if script is running interactively and when it is then will use color. Otherwise will not use color.

This function is not exported.

No arguments.

Returns an enveloped result (an array).

First element (status) is an integer containing HTTP status code (200 means OK, 4xx caller error, 5xx function error). Second element (msg) is a string containing error message, or 'OK' if status is 200. Third element (payload) is optional, the actual result. Fourth element (meta) is called result metadata and is optional, a hash that contains extra information.

Return value: (any)

ENVIRONMENT

COLOR

COLOR_DEPTH

COLORTERM

NO_COLOR

HOMEPAGE

Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/Term-App-Util-Color.

SOURCE

Source repository is at https://github.com/perlancar/perl-Term-App-Util-Color.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://github.com/perlancar/perl-Term-App-Util-Color/issues

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

SEE ALSO

Other Term::App::Util::* modules.

Term::Detect::Software

AUTHOR

perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2021 by perlancar@cpan.org.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.