Thread: Changing the Console text back to black

Okay before I begin, I DID use Search and I found nothing.

Okay, to buisness. I know how to do the text color changing stuff. The problem is, I want to change it back to a black background and white text at times. I know about combining colors and all that, but I can't black for the background (I can do white for the text)! Any help would be greatly appreciated. Also, I'm using MVC++ 6 Standard Edition.

Brendan

Could someone PLEASE help??? I mean, someone here MUST know how to, you're all much better at this sort of thing than me. Why is it that when people post questions that've been asked a gazillion times you answer those but you don't answer ones that haven't been asked before? I'm not trying to sound rude or anything, but I really need the help, and I haven't been able to get it. Thanks.

Lol oops now I feel exceptionally stupid. I found out how to by mistake. I accidentally forgot to add background color info. when i wanted to change the color again, and I found out that not adding any code for changing background color puts it back to black. Lol I'm sorry.

Brendan

What compiler do you have? It depends.

Brendan

if you are using a windows compiler you can use SetConsoleAttrib() or something like that, or if you are using a pure dos compiler you can use the conio.h functions to do it (I forget which ones)

>but i cant work out how to use wAttributes.

There's several, and I'll list them here:
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FOREGROUND_RED // a dark red for text
FOREGROUND_GREEN // a dark green for text
FOREGROUND_BLUE // a dark blue for text
FOREGROUND_INTENSITY // brightens text color

BACKGROUND_RED // dark red for background of text
BACKGROUND_GREEN // dark green for background of text
BACKGROUND_BLUE // dark blue for background of text
BACKGROUND_INTENSITY // background is brightened
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You may want to use #define or something and just call, for instance, FOREGROUND_RED something like fRed so it's easier and less typo-prone.

To use, you would just do the following (in MSVC++):
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#include <iostream.h> // cout
#include <windows.h> // text stuff

// pretend i already did all the #define thingys listed above
HANDLE stdHand=GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);

int main()
{
SetConsoleTextAttribute(stdHand, fBlue | bGreen | bIntens);
cout << "See the blue text on the green background?\n";
return 0;
}
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You can also combine colors to make a new one; for example, bRed, bGreen, bBlue, and bIntens would make a white background. This is done as follows:
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SetConsoleTextAttribute(stdHand,fBlue | fIntens | bRed | bGreen |
bBlue | bIntens);
cout << "Now it's light blue text over white. Oooo.\n";
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Hope that helps.

Brendan

Also, I'm still at a loss with these tag things. [code] That's not working.

Ok, lets try that then...

Code:

void SetPoint(Point * pt, int x, int y)
{
        ...
}

Hey wow it does work. Thanks!