Hey, all. I''m completly new to C++ and all so far I''ve managed to do is a hello world sample. But I was wanting to know how I''d colour the text, like output it cyan with a red background or somesuch other thing... cheers,

DOS Borland compilers used to have cprintf function to do this in conio.h. There is no standard way to print colored text in C++, so there''s no general solution. For Win32, look up "console functions" in MSDN.

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[edited by - Michalson on June 3, 2002 2:27:22 PM]

If your doing something in a console program for Windows, lookup:

SetConsoleTextAttribute()

in MSDN.

If your wanting to output colored text into a Windows window, lookup:

SetTextColor();
TextOut();

in MSDN


This is all assuming you actually have MSDN


It''s all you need

Well technically everyone has msdn... http://msdn.microsoft.com

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Also, you can always use ANSI escape sequences. Look it up on Google. Here is an example:
std::cout << "\e[31m" << "This text is red." << std::endl;
Or you can use windows functions like the above posters said. Hope this helps.

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That aint red....

WinMe/XP/2k ... do not support ANSI escapes anymore

Though I read you can get "ansi.com" to make it work again.


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[edited by - Fruny on June 4, 2002 12:49:23 PM]

www.ansi.com = American National Skyline Industries ;¬)



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i get it File: ansi.com

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