Thread: Color?

Is there a way to do color in a console app? Im using VC++ 6.0. Its just to jazz parts up. anyone?

the colors can be mixed

FOREGROUND_BLUE Text color contains blue.
FOREGROUND_GREEN Text color contains green.
FOREGROUND_RED Text color contains red.
FOREGROUND_INTENSITY Text color is intensified.
BACKGROUND_BLUE Background color contains blue.
BACKGROUND_GREEN Background color contains green.
BACKGROUND_RED Background color contains red.
BACKGROUND_INTENSITY Background color is intensified.

Code:

#include <windows.h>

int main()
{

    HANDLE hStdout;
    hStdout = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE); 
    SetConsoleTextAttribute(hStdout, FOREGROUND_RED);
    
    printf("WWWWOOOOO MY TEXT IS RED WWOOOOO!!");
    return 0;
}

THANKS!!
But, Can I have multiple text on the screen??

PHP Code:

#include <windows.h>
#include <iostream.h>



void color(int color_num)
{
    if( color_num == 1)
    {
    HANDLE hStdout;
    hStdout = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE); 
    SetConsoleTextAttribute(hStdout, FOREGROUND_RED);
    }
    
    if( color_num == 2)
    {
    
    HANDLE hStdout;
    hStdout = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE); 
    SetConsoleTextAttribute(hStdout, FOREGROUND_BLUE);

    }



}


int main()
{

    color(2);
    cout << " RED ";
    color(1);
    cout << " BLUE";
    return 0;
} 


This outbuts both in the same color....so????

any ideas?
ACAC

In other words use

color(2);
cout << " RED "<<endl; //or you could use \n
color(1);
cout << " BLUE"<<endl; //same here \n

i've tried it and Background colors will not change... so i don't know either, sorry.

Visual C++ only changes the color for one line. You'll have to put them on seperate lines, then use SetConsoleTextAttribute again

Not really. The problem is that ostream is buffered. Try:

Code:

    color(2);
    cout << " RED " << flush;
    color(1);
    cout << " BLUE" << flush;

I've tried this multiple ways, but I can't get a, lets say, a blue background w/ green text. Is there a way to accomplish this?

See here: Windows Programming FAQ

ehhh Thread necrophilia!

You can have a blue text on a green background. You have to mix colors to achieve this. You would OR the foreground and background flags like so:

Code:

 WORD color_attribute=FOREGROUND_BLUE|BACKGROUND_GREEN

You would then be able to toggle the color using the function SetConsoleTextAttribute. You would need to call this function each time you want to change the color.

With a windows console the screen buffer is an array of CHAR_INFO structures. There are several windows console functions that work with CHAR_INFO arrays to modify the color and text and then display them to the screen. You can goto the msdn library for a complete list of Windows console functions.