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    text color

    in a consoel app (dos) i know you can change the color by using something like font[1] and 1 stands for red or something wut do i use for changing text color
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    does no one know!?!??!?!?!!?!
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    I always use <conio.h> and their textcolor, although it may not work for you...
    Code:
    textcolor(RED);
    textbackground(BLACK);
    clrscr();
    You have to do a clrscr(); afterwards to have the changes take effect. That means that only 1 color on the screen at a time, there is a way to do it with more than 1 color, I am sure if you keep posting someone will give you the code.
    Anyhow, look through conio.h for all of the colors that you can use, and I think you must always type them in capitals.
    RED, BLUE, GREEN, YELLOW, LIGHTCYAN, stuff like that, check out conio.h

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    Code:
    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. 
    
    
    #include <windows.h>
    #include <stdio.h>
    
    int main( void )
    {
    
        HANDLE hStdout;
    
        hStdout = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE); 
        SetConsoleTextAttribute(hStdout, FOREGROUND_RED);
        
        printf("WWWWOOOOO MY TEXT IS RED WWOOOOO!!");
    
        return 0;
    }
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    Traveller's example works for all C/C++ compilers, Kyoto's example works for Dev-C++ (and maybe gcc compilers to)

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    Originally posted by Kyoto Oshiro
    You have to do a clrscr(); afterwards to have the changes take effect. That means that only 1 color on the screen at a time, there is a way to do it with more than 1 color, I am sure if you keep posting someone will give you the code.
    Actually the standard output methods don't work right with textcolor()/textbackground(). That's why there was cprintf() or similar in conio.h, if I remember correct(I don't have conio.h in my current compiler). With cprintf() you need the Windows's CR\LF for newline.

    Originally posted by Quantrizi
    Traveller's example works for all C/C++ compilers, Kyoto's example works for Dev-C++ (and maybe gcc compilers to)
    Works only if it supports WinAPI. DJGPP's gcc supports that but gnu gcc doesn't.
    Last edited by raimo; 07-13-2002 at 11:57 AM.

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    Well, I am pretty sure only gcc compilers (like MingW, Cygin (or something like that)) have conio.h because msvc++ doesn't.
    [edit]If you use textcolor() and/or textbackground(), you have to include conio.o[/edit]

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    i use dev c++ 4. but it doesnt have the header file conio.o can someone uplaod it to a post so i can download it?
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    conio.o is something u have to link to. conio.h is the header file. conio.o is in the lib folder

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    raimo, actually you can do cout<< and it display text color...
    Code:
    #include <iostream.h>
    #include <conio.h>
    
    int main()
    {
    textcolor(LIGHTBLUE);
    textbackground(BLACK);
    clrscr();
    cout<< "This will be Light Blue on a Black background.\n";
    return(0);
    }
    That always gets the job done. You can't use standard cout<< and such for the way Traveller showed.
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    duh! i wasnt born yesterday. i did it right its jsut i dont have that lib file for some reason caus ei tried to compile it and it said it didnt have the file
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    oh its conio.h on earlier posts u said it was conio.o
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    sorry about that....

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    i compiled it, btu isntea dof lookign at a dos mode window (im in a console app)

    a windows window popped up saying

    on the window bar it said compiler lnker out and input
    C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\ccziGggb.o(.text+0x3b2b):comput~1. cpp: undefined reference to `textbackground'
    C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\ccziGggb.o(.text+0x3b33):comput~1. cpp: undefined reference to `clrscr'
    C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\ccziGggb.o(.text+0x3b3d):comput~1. cpp: undefined reference to `textcolor'
    C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\ccziGggb.o(.text+0x3b4a):comput~1. cpp: undefined reference to `textbackground'
    C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\ccziGggb.o(.text+0x3b52):comput~1. cpp: undefined reference to `clrscr'
    C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\ccziGggb.o(.text+0x3b81):comput~1. cpp: undefined reference to `textcolor'
    C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\ccziGggb.o(.text+0x3b8e):comput~1. cpp: undefined reference to `textbackground'
    C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\ccziGggb.o(.text+0x3b96):comput~1. cpp: undefined reference to `clrscr'
    C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\ccziGggb.o(.text+0x3bc5):comput~1. cpp: undefined reference to `textcolor'
    C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\ccziGggb.o(.text+0x3bd2):comput~1. cpp: undefined reference to `textbackground'
    C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\ccziGggb.o(.text+0x3bda):comput~1. cpp: undefined reference to `clrscr'
    C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\ccziGggb.o(.text+0x3c09):comput~1. cpp: undefined reference to `textcolor'
    C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\ccziGggb.o(.text+0x3c16):comput~1. cpp: undefined reference to `textbackground'
    C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\ccziGggb.o(.text+0x3c1e):comput~1. cpp: undefined reference to `clrscr'
    C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\ccziGggb.o(.text+0x3c4d):comput~1. cpp: undefined reference to `textcolor'
    C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\ccziGggb.o(.text+0x3c5a):comput~1. cpp: undefined reference to `textbackground'
    C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\ccziGggb.o(.text+0x3c62):comput~1. cpp: undefined reference to `clrscr'
    what does this mean
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    Ok, I ain't accusing u of being a n00b, but this is a step-by-step process:

    1. Include conio.h
    2. Right click on the project name
    3. Go to project options
    4. Go to "Further object files or linker options"
    5. Type this in: C:\Dev-C++\Lib\conio.o
    6. Click ok

    C:\Dev-C++\ may not the directory, but you know what to do if it ain't

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