Colours of text/background?

[jonnyfb]

Hello. How can i change the color of text or the background?
I cant seem to find the answer anywhere on the internet but I know it can be done.

Jon

[Ideswa]

http://www.adrianxw.dk/SoftwareSite/index.html

[jonnyfb]

Ok I have used that to help me change the 1st line to blue background but I cant figure out how to change the rest of the background back to black.

[Jetlaw]

Put in BACKGROUND_0 somewhere, I think that's the right one.

Also, if you do the function again and don't specify any BACKGROUND_ parameters, it should skip back to black.

[swgh]

Write this function include windows.h header:

void DrawColorString(string szText, int X, int Y, WORD color)
{	
	HANDLE OutputH;									
	COORD position = {X, Y};							

	OutputH = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);		

	SetConsoleTextAttribute(OutputH, color);		
													
	SetConsoleCursorPosition(OutputH, position);	

	cout << szText;									
}

In program, use this:

DrawColorString("", 0, 5, FOREGROUND_BLUE | BACKGROUND_RED);

Hope this helps!