Thread: To change text colour

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    Question To change text colour

    Hi, straightforward question, what is the command used in visual studio to change the appearance of text color. Basically, I am writing a simple program which will contain a number of options and when a particular option is chosen I want it to flash a different colour momentarily.
    Thanks,
    Dirty.

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    I've lost count of how many times this has been posted.
    You can save yourself time by using the search facility
    Code:
    the colors can be mixed 
    
    FOREGROUND_BLUE Text color contains blue. 
    FOREGROUND_GREEN Text color contains green. 
    FOREGROUND_RED Text color contains red. 
    FOREGROUND_INTENSITY Text color is intensified. 
    BACKGROUND_BLUE Background color contains blue. 
    BACKGROUND_GREEN Background color contains green. 
    BACKGROUND_RED Background color contains red. 
    BACKGROUND_INTENSITY Background color is intensified. 
    
    
    #include <windows.h>
    #include <stdio.h>
    
    int main( void )
    {
    
        HANDLE hStdout;
    
        hStdout = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE); 
        SetConsoleTextAttribute(hStdout, FOREGROUND_RED);
        
        printf("WWWWOOOOO MY TEXT IS RED WWOOOOO!!");
    
        return 0;
    }
    All spelling mistakes, syntatical errors and stupid comments are intentional.

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    Cool tHANK YOU

    Thanks for the reply!

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