Windows – Color not working

[agung-wete]

Hi

Using windows environment
try to use --help, got this errors, just right before filename appeared=

The system cannot find the path specified.
The system cannot find the path specified.
The system cannot find the path specified.

Yes, 3 in a row.

Thanks

[nategood]

Does this happen with the examples in /examples?

[agung-wete]

yes

[stratease]

Does this lib support windows env? I imagine that would be quite difficult to create parallel feature support

[nategood]

I don't have a windows machine or VM handy to debug. Might have something to do with the Colors.php library. Have you tried running examples directly from the Colors.php library?

[taishar]

Hi,
This is happening to me as well. It looks like its coming from Terminal::tput().

[morganprecision]

Specifically I think the issue is that /dev/null cannot be found in the Windows environment (the Terminal::tput() method redirects to /dev/null).

I created a C:\dev\null folder on the Windows box I am working with to see what would happen. I then started getting "Access is denied" messages instead of "The system cannot find the path specified."

[cpalm1974]

This happens when executing "tput" to get the width of the terminal in Terminal.php line 51 ff.

    private static function tput($default, $param = 'cols')
    {
        $test = exec('tput ' . $param . ' 2>/dev/null');
        if (empty($test))
            return $default;
        $result = intval(exec('tput ' . $param));
        return empty($result) ? $default : $result;
    }

It would be more optimal if at first the os is detected with the PHP_OS constant and check for the first 3 characters = "WIN".
Even for Linux environments it could be optimal to execute "which tput" at first to see if it's there and accessible.
For Win Environments I think there is not an optimal way to get the width. I think it's best to execute "MODE CON:" as this is available in every Windows installation (I think even since MS-DOS 3.3 :) )
The returned string gives console parameters like the width, lines and so on. But the output is language dependent. So in my German installation something like:

Status von Gerät CON:
---------------------
    Zeilen:          300
    Spalten:         99
    Wiederholrate:   31
    Verzögerungszeit:1
    Codepage:        850

So you'd have to maybe regex to get the second line after "-----".

[cpalm1974]

I think the tput function could be optimized like the following. It's working good in my environment.

    private static function tput($default, $param = 'cols')
    {
    	if (strtoupper(substr(PHP_OS, 0, 3)) === 'WIN')
    		return $default;
    	$path = trim(shell_exec('which tput'));
    	if (empty($path))
    		return $default;
        $test = exec('tput ' . $param . ' 2>/dev/null');
        if (empty($test))
            return $default;
        $result = intval(exec('tput ' . $param));
        return empty($result) ? $default : $result;
    }

Maybe you can import the changes...