colours

hi every1
i wnated to know if it is possible to change text colour being outputed on a unix compiler (g++). I have searched the FAQ but it seems that most of the stuff on there was concerned with windows / dos programming.
thanks alot for ur time :D

Hello,

Are you interested in changing the color of the output of g++, or are you intending to have your programs display colored text?

hi what i would like is for the output o have certain text to be in one colour and the next in the other for example


.......
cout<<"This is red text";
//code to change colour
cout<<this is blue text";

but i seem to be havin problems finding out if there are method avaible within the += livaries that is able to perform somthing like this.
thanks alot

What you need is ncurses. Check out the man pages for ncurses and curs_color. I think you will find them most useful.

hey thanks for al ur help
is there anywhere that u know of where there are source examples for ncurses becausei cant really seem to understand it properly
thanks again

enjoy :: its not my own code but part of it is.. so again enjoy..

Code:

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#include <ncurses.h>

void print_in_middle(WINDOW *win, int starty, int startx, int width, char *string);

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{

 initscr();
    if(has_colors() == FALSE)
    {
      endwin();
        printf("You terminal does not support color\n");
        exit(1);
    }
    start_color();  /* Start color */
    init_pair(1, COLOR_BLUE, COLOR_YELLOW);

    attron(COLOR_PAIR(1));
    print_in_middle(stdscr, LINES / 2, 0, 0, "Viola !!! In color ...");
    attroff(COLOR_PAIR(1));
    sleep(10);
    endwin();
}

void print_in_middle(WINDOW *win, int starty, int startx, int width, char *string)
{

  int length, x, y;
    float temp;
    if(win == NULL)
        win = stdscr;
    getyx(win, y, x);
    if(startx != 0)
        x = startx;
    if(starty != 0)
        y = starty;
    if(width == 0)
        width = 80;    length = strlen(string);
    temp = (width - length)/ 2;
    x = startx + (int)temp;
    mvwprintw(win, y, x, "%s", string);
    refresh();
}

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