Hey Guys Im Using The windows.h header on my program, and ive got the function all built and what not, but ive noticed i can only choose between red,green,and blue....
lol big suprise but im just wondering if theres some simple way of tweaking it so i can use colors other than that for the text in my program
You can use the bitwise-or operator to combine the colors.The FOREGROUND_INTENSITY is useful to mix with the other colors, giving 16 total colors.Code:SetConsoleTextAttribute ( h, FOREGROUND_RED | FOREGROUND_INTENSITY );
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You can mix your own colors using Red, Green, and Blue.
Define your own colors as numeric constants using the RGB( ) macro, where the arguments are the amount of red, green, and blue respectively.. on a scale of 0 to 255.
examples:
Code:COLORREF green = RGB(0, 255, 0); COLORREF yellow = RGB(255, 255, 0); COLORREF purple = RGB(255, 0, 255); COLORREF dark_gray = RGB(128, 128, 128);
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hey yeah, i knew there was a way to adjust the values of the RGB but i wasnt really sure, but yeah thanks for the help guys!
Thank's pianorain. I used SetConsoleTextAttribute() to re-find the MSDN Console Reference. I just "bookmarked" it!
