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Re: Change text color using visual c++

Sep 26th, 2007

I used this one to save me some time
This is not Visual C++ dependant, I use this with DEv-C++ as well, you just need the windows header

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enum Colors { blue=1, green, cyan, red, purple, yellow, grey, dgrey, hblue, hgreen, hred, hpurple, hyellow, hwhite };
 
void coutc(int color, char* output)
{
   HANDLE handle= GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
   SetConsoleTextAttribute( handle, color);
   cout<< output;
   SetConsoleTextAttribute( handle, color);
}
enum Colors { blue=1, green, cyan, red, purple, yellow, grey, dgrey, hblue, hgreen, hred, hpurple, hyellow, hwhite };

void coutc(int color, char* output)
{
   HANDLE handle= GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
   SetConsoleTextAttribute( handle, color);
   cout<< output;
   SetConsoleTextAttribute( handle, color);
}

Then to output in color you would just do

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coutc(red, "This is in red!");
coutc(purple, "This is purple!");
coutc(red, "This is in red!");
coutc(purple, "This is purple!");

Last edited by ShawnCplus; Sep 26th, 2007 at 5:48 pm.

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