Thread: quick question about textcolor

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    quick question about textcolor

    how would you go about changing the text colour output in your c++ program,
    i read that you can use the textcolor(); function in conio.h but that doesn't work.
    i'm using microsoft visual c++.
    any ideas?

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    Code:
    #include <windows.h>
    // ...
    SetConsoleTextAttribute( GetStdHandle( STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE ), Number from 0 to 255 );
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