I know already that you can change cmd's background and font color by doing:
But is it possible to instead of changing cmd's background to a different color, can you instead make it display a background picture somehow?Code:#include <iostream> #include <windows.h> using namespace std; int main() { system("color 17"); cout<<"This prints me gray on a blue background."; cin.get(); }
Not trivially. The colours and stuff drawn by the command prompt is controlled by a system process (it may seem like you are writing "directly" to the command prompts console window, but there is actually another process in the system that manages the drawing of the console window). You could, possibly, write a replacement system process - but it's far from an entirely trivial task.
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Instead of dressing up a console, perhaps you should look into real graphical user interfaces that most user applications use. A console application is mostly about getting a job done, not about being eye-candy
BTW, your code doesn't use anything from <windows.h> (there are functions to set console text attributes) but just lets an external program do the job.
I might be wrong.
Quoted more than 1000 times (I hope).Thank you, anon. You sure know how to recognize different types of trees from quite a long way away.
I believe there is a good tutorial by adrianxw that addresses more complex changing of console colors and stuff like that, but I doubt you could put an actual picture in the background. If changing colors and other attributes is enough try searching google for adrianxw and you might find enough information to do what you're trying to do.
The console resolution is too small to put a good picture, but it can be done with functions from wincon.h.
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What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
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Where could I see a tutorial that would help you make such program?Originally Posted by anon
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Ok, I found the program here: ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/2.14/
But what can't figure out is how to install it. Help?
err how much C++ do you know?
If you can't even figure out how to install it, you are not ready for it (both mindset and skill-wise).
If u get the handle of the cmd line console you can totally do xactly wut u sed. But as it was sed b4, its not trivial.
Check out allegro or SDL.
Allegro: http://alleg.sourceforge.net/
SDL: http://www.libsdl.org/
Woop?
Install it on a Linux System and enjoy!
Hi,
I have asked a similar question- loading and displaying an image file. As soon as I know how to do that, I'll let you know.
Don't be desperate!
What would be the picture format you are loading? Also be aware that you'll need to write your own function for decoding, formating to fit to the console and finally, displaying it by directly editing the console's buffer.
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
