Colors not working correctly on Windows

[cabauman]

OS: Windows 11 Pro
OS Build: 22000.434

Sample output from testing Colorful.Console.WriteLine(string, Color) gives me:

That dark blue is always the first color, no matter what. After cloning the repo to debug, I found that GetConsoleColorNative is the part that's returning incorrect results. Manually changing it to take the color.ToNearestConsoleColor() path works fine, of course.

Just wanted to report for visibility. Thanks for all your hard work on this library!

[Himmelschrei]

Can you please elaborate? I just downloaded it to implement it in a version of Mastermind I'm programming and I encountered the same issue.

Having this code...

... gets this result:

Can you please explain what you did?

[cabauman]

What I described above requires a source code modification. Since my use case is trivial, I decided to just create a few utility methods instead of using this library.

using System;
					
public class Program
{
    public static void Main()
    {
        WriteInColor("Hello World", ConsoleColor.Green);
    }
	
    private static void WriteInColor<T>(T value, ConsoleColor color)
    {
        var oldColor = System.Console.ForegroundColor;
        System.Console.ForegroundColor = color;
        Console.WriteLine(value);
        System.Console.ForegroundColor = oldColor;
    }
}

I'd be happy to help contribute a fix, but I think it requires discussion with the author. The quick and dirty solution is to get rid of the GetConsoleColorNative part. The proper solution would be fixing that GetConsoleColorNative method, but I'm not familiar enough with this project to know what the logic is trying to do.