'Get Colorized spdlog output with qt_sinks

Ok so I hooked up the QTextEdit with spdlog. But how to get the colorized output from spdlog/fmt to show in the QTextEdit? Am I doomed to implement my own message handler for that to happen? Or is there a slicker way?

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Solution 1:[1]

I saw the Qt Creator output pane can handle ASCII color codes. So I pulled this code from its source code and added extra functionality(bold, italic etc). After that I take QTextCursor* from QTextEdit or QPlainTextEdit objects and easily parse color codes and insert into thise widgets. In order to use this functionality you have to change spdlog's qt_sinks.h header with this.. After that use this helper class to see colored output in these widgets.

Example result: enter image description here

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Solution 1 M. Galib Uludag

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