Question about installing Jansi to use with Java

[Lainey Bonetto]

Hi all,

I'm supposed to create a simple program to run in a console for my Java class. The computers that it will be shown on are running Windows. I could really impress my professor if I included some color in the output.

Based on my searches, I'll need to download a library to accomplish this. It looks like Jansi is pretty straight-forward to use, but the instructions for installing seemed to be lacking (especially since I'm a newb).

After I download the .jar file, what do I do? I assume I double click on it to install and then include "import org.fusesource.jansi.AnsiConsole;" in my file. Is it that easy? Or am I missing some steps.

Thanks for any help!

[Bear Bibeault]

Lainey Bonetto wrote:I could really impress my professor if I included some color in the output.

If one of my students did this above and beyond the requirements of an assignment, I'd be less than impressed. I'd suggest just sticking to the assignment.

[Lainey Bonetto]

I appreciate your thoughts. Normally I'd stick to the assignment with any other professor, but I've had two other programming classes with him and know that he'd be pleased with the extra effort.

[Bear Bibeault]

I assume you'd just place the jar in the class path like any other.

[Lainey Bonetto]

I was able to get Jansi to work and I thought I'd share my solution in case anyone did a search here.

The file that you download can simply be placed in your jre/lib/ext folder and use the import statement shown above. No other contortions are necessary.