Mudlet - Forum

I wasn't sure if I should post this in the help forum, as that's a forum for help with Mudlet itself.

I'm actually calling out to you Lua gurus for help with a more general use: In attempting to learn some serious Lua, I'm trying to write a little standalone application, just a short text adventure to get my feet wet. However, I'm banging my head already on one stupid little thing: printing in color. I've been on Google for about 45 minutes now looking up how to do it, but I can't print text in any color but boring grey.

This more abstract stuff is totally going over my head! I miss the structure of Mudlet. Heeeelp!

What are you printing to? The terminal?

Or what are you using Lua in?

I'm currently writing in the SciTE editor that came with this Lua for Windows distribution. Color highlighting is pretty. Keep in mind that I'm new to programming from scratch, so if I ask a lot of stupid questions because I can't wrap my mind around the structure of something, forgive me.

For output, I'm using SciTE's terminal, just a little window on the bottom. I've run example scripts in there so I know it can display in color.

You'd need to check it's manual on what characters to use for it to render color.