colorconsole.cpp

How to produce different colours on the DOS console using Windows function calls

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// color your text in Windows console mode
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// colors are 0=black 1=blue 2=green and so on to 15=white
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// colorattribute = foreground + background * 16
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// to get red text on yellow use 4 + 14*16 = 228
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// light red on yellow would be 12 + 14*16 = 236
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// a Dev-C++ tested console application by vegaseat 07nov2004
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#include <iostream>
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#include <windows.h> // WinApi header
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using namespace std; // std::cout, std::cin
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int main()
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{
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HANDLE hConsole;
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int k;
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hConsole = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
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// you can loop k higher to see more color choices
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for(k = 1; k < 255; k++)
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{
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// pick the colorattribute k you want
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SetConsoleTextAttribute(hConsole, k);
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cout << k << " I want to be nice today!" << endl;
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}
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cin.get(); // wait
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return 0;
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}