Thread: console text colors??

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    console text colors??

    is there a way to change the text colors in the console

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    For a windows machine.......look up the SetConsoleTextAttribute() API function on MSDN....

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    Lightbulb Like this, maybe?

    textcolor(RED); // For Red
    textcolor(GREEN); // For Green
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    what do I need to include?

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    It depends on what your compiler is, I'm not sure about the others, but in dev-cpp it is <conio.c>

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    Just as Fordy stated...simply include windows.h and use this:

    Code:
    SetConsoleTextAttribute( GetStdHandle(
                                             STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE ), 
                                             FOREGROUND_RED );
    Experiment also FOREGROUND_BLUE, FOREGROUND_GREEN.
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