output coloured text on screen

How can I change the colour of my output program?

If your writing in DOS or WINDOWS enviroment than I'm recommending you a "cprintf" function.

Can I get different colours to go with different text, i.e. the cprintf statement makes sense, but how can I get different colours

I am using windows

I forgot to mention the "textcolor" function. This function and the cprintf are in "conio.h" library.

Use:

Code:

# include <conio.h>

int main()
{
textcolor(RED);
cprintf("Hello!");
return 0;
}

Have phun.

lets say i want to write this is green

printf("this is green");

how do i do this

Here's a fun little thing I wrote in response to a similar question on the C++ boards, modified for C of course

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <windows.h>
#define HOT   FOREGROUND_INTENSITY
#define RED   FOREGROUND_RED
#define GREEN FOREGROUND_GREEN
#define BLUE  FOREGROUND_BLUE

int main ( void )
{
  HANDLE h;
  h = GetStdHandle ( STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE ); 
  SetConsoleTextAttribute ( h, RED | GREEN ); 
  printf ( "My " );
  SetConsoleTextAttribute ( h, RED );
  printf ( "next " );
  SetConsoleTextAttribute ( h, GREEN );
  printf ( "rant " );
  SetConsoleTextAttribute ( h, HOT | BLUE );
  printf ( "will " );
  SetConsoleTextAttribute ( h, HOT | RED );
  printf ( "be " );
  SetConsoleTextAttribute ( h, HOT | GREEN );
  printf ( "in a " );
  SetConsoleTextAttribute ( h, HOT | BLUE | RED );
  printf ( "technicolor " );
  SetConsoleTextAttribute ( h, BLUE | GREEN );
  printf ( "rainbow :D\n" );
  SetConsoleTextAttribute ( h, GREEN | BLUE | RED );
  return 0;
}

-Prelude