Question

After writing a console application (For mundane I/O tasks not worth mentioning here), I decided I needed to make the text multicolored for readability. I would’ve liked to keep it in a command prompt, being inexperienced with Swing, but as far as I could figure there was no way to do that, I looked around the Swing API and can’t find anything.

Ideally, I’d be able to use something like

for(int i=0; i<aString.length(); i++){
    if(aString.charAt(i) == '?'){
        String pre = aString.substring(0,i);
        String post = aString.substring(i);
        aString = pre + red("?") + post;    //As you can see by red("?"), I have no idea what I'm doing
    }
}

so that I could just loop through the text I would have previously printed, insert the coloring information, and display it.

Can anyone point me in the right direction? Method, class, snippet, anything?

Answer 1

I would’ve liked to keep it in a command prompt, being inexperienced with Swing

You might get some ideas from Message Console.