Colours of text/background?

Hello. How can i change the color of text or the background?
I cant seem to find the answer anywhere on the internet but I know it can be done.

Jon

http://www.adrianxw.dk/SoftwareSite/index.html

Ok I have used that to help me change the 1st line to blue background but I cant figure out how to change the rest of the background back to black.

Put in BACKGROUND_0 somewhere, I think that's the right one.

Also, if you do the function again and don't specify any BACKGROUND_ parameters, it should skip back to black.

Write this function include windows.h header:

Code:

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void DrawColorString(string szText, int X, int Y, WORD color)
{       
        HANDLE OutputH;                                                                       
        COORD position = {X, Y};                                                       

        OutputH = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);               

        SetConsoleTextAttribute(OutputH, color);               
                                                                                                       
        SetConsoleCursorPosition(OutputH, position);       

        cout << szText;                                                                       
}

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In program, use this:

Code:

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DrawColorString("", 0, 5, FOREGROUND_BLUE | BACKGROUND_RED);

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Hope this helps!