Thread: static text color/background color

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    static text color/background color

    I was wondering if anyone knows how to change the color/background color of static text. Any help, or examples would be appreciated. Thanks!!

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    If you're using a windows compiler simply use

    SetConsoleTextAttribute(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HA NDLE), c);

    where c is the color.

    there are 16 possible colors for the foreground and other possibilites for the background.

    Foreground

    BLACK
    BLUE
    GREEN
    CYAN
    RED
    MAGENTA
    BROWN
    LIGHTGRAY
    DARKGRAY
    LIGHTBLUE
    LIGHTGREEN
    LIGHTCYAN
    LIGHTRED
    LIGHTMAGENTA
    YELLOW
    WHITE

    Background colors can be intensified, brigtened to make lighter shades out of the colors for example, BACKGROUND_BLUE, can be made lightblue by BACKGROUND_BLUE | BACKGROUND_INTENSITY
    remember, you cannot declare the following colors as backgrounds

    LIGHTGRAY,DARKGRAY,LIGHTBLUE,LIGHTGREEN,LIGHTCYAN, LIGHTRED,LIGHTMAGENTA,YELLOW,WHITE,CYAN,MAGENTA,BR OWN,BLACK

    However you can make most of the colors with the right combinations the exceptions DARKGRAY and BLACK.

    Here are the combinations for the colors

    WHITE-BACKGROUND_RED | BACKGROUND_GREEN | BACKGROUND_BLUE | BACKGROUND_INTENSITY

    LIGHTGRAY-BACKGROUND_RED | BACKGROUND_GREEN | BACKGROUND_BLUE

    LIGHTBLUE-BACKGROUND_BLUE | BACKGROUND_INTENSITY

    LIGHTRED-BACKGROUND_RED | BACKGROUND_INTENSITY

    LIGHTCYAN-BACKGROUND_BLUE | BACKGROUND_GREEN | BACKGROUND_INTENSITY

    LIGHTRED-BACKGROUND_RED | BACKGROUND_INTENSITY

    LIGHTMAGENTA-BACKGROUND_RED | BACKGROUND_BLUE | BACKGROUND_INTENSITY

    YELLOW-BACKGROUND_RED | BACKGROUND_GREEN | BACKGROUND_INTENSITY

    BROWN -BACKGROUND_RED | BACKGROUND_GREEN

    MAGENTA-BACKGROUND_BLUE | BACKGROUND_RED

    CYAN-BACKGROUND_BLUE | BACKGROUND_GREEN

    This is only the EGA textmode, remember if you are using windows based compilers you are confined to EGA textmode.
    Last edited by Eric08; 07-06-2003 at 06:06 AM.

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