Miracle C [I Need Help With Coloured Text]

[paulroseby]

I have to use Miracle C at college, but there is no way i can see of having coloured txt .

The compiler doesn't come with conio.h and so i added the conio.h file from Turbo C to try and make it work.

This is a test piece of code i used:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <conio.h>

void main()
{
colortext(4);
printf("Hello, This text should be RED!!");

getch();

}

this is the error i keep getting when try to compile:

Miracle C Compiler (r3.2), written by bts.

c:\Program Files\Miracle C\include\conio.h: line 41: Parse Error, expecting `'}''
'enum text_modes { LASTMODE=-1, BW40=0, C40, BW80, C80, MONO=7, C4350=64 }'
aborting compile

I prosoume it doesnt like some of the functions/statements used in the conio.h?

and way of gettin round this problem? diffrent version of the conio.h file maybe? or some other funtions/header files that can sort it instead?

Thankz For Ya Help!!!

Paul Roseby

[moi]

using a .h from a lib that you dont have written for a compiler you dont have will NEVER work

[paulroseby]

any ideas of anything else i cud try?

[vsriharsha]

Hi,
Try to access the Video memory (which has been discussed several times in the past) directly and there you can change the colours...But to do it, you need a better understanding of pointers, so just be careful.
Have Fun.
REgards,
Sriharsha.

[master5001]

Proper grammar and spelling would be a good start....Anyways, since I am not familiar with what sort of compiler I can offer two suggestions (both of which I have done before). If you can do what vsriharsha suggested do that. Otherwise, I have a windows specific solution. You can always use LoadLibrary() to grab whatever function does the colored text out of whatever dll it is in. By way I have never used the dll method for this, but I have used it for other things.

[task]

is the function not textcolor() instead of colortext()