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Different Colors in Console: How?

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Started by Zodiak April 22, 2005 08:53 AM

1 comment, last by codemonster 19 years ago

Zodiak

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April 22, 2005 08:53 AM

Greetings fellow forumers, I remeber I started a similar thread on C# but since now I am using C++ I assume it will be different. So how do I change that dull white color in the console window to, say, red or green? Thanks!

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Rhaal

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April 22, 2005 09:09 AM

This will make your console life easier if you're using Windows.

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codemonster

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April 22, 2005 09:21 AM

Have a look at Tiffany Smith's nice Tetris clone AsciiRis which runs in a console window. The archive contains a vc6 project, the source, and an executable. [smile]

The Win32 function you're looking for is probably SetConsoleTextAttribute()

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