Thread: assigning a color to the element of an array ...

Hey people!

I'm trying to make a chess board for this chess game that I made. Obviously there's a (circumstantial) board in the game at the moment, but I'm not altogether happy with it. it's just:

Code:

char ChessBoard[8][8] =
{
	{ 'R', 'N', 'B', 'Q', 'K', 'B', 'N', 'R' },
	{ 'P', 'P', 'P', 'P', 'P', 'P', 'P', 'P' },
	{ ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ' },
	{ ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ' },
	{ ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ' },
	{ ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ' },
	{ 'p', 'p', 'p', 'p', 'p', 'p', 'p', 'p' },
	{ 'r', 'n', 'b', 'q', 'k', 'b', 'n', 'r' }
};

being printed off.

I'd like to be able to have a black and white checkerred box.

I tried using this:

HANDLE hConsole;
hConsole = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);

to change the color .... but it's rather longwinded and I'm sure that there is a better way to do it!! Is there a way to set the color of an element(s) of an array?? cheers!