I tried typing

printf("\033[34m");

for blue foreground color, and other values, but nothing worked. So I included:

device=D:\WINDOWS\system32\ansi.sys

and

Well I coded for the backspace. Here is the code if anybody is interested...

if (str[num] == '\b')
{

str[num] = '\0';
printf(" \b");
str[num-1] = '\0';
...

Whoops, sorry Ancient Dragon, I clicked on Advanced Reply before I realized that you had responded. I plan on coding for backspaces and everything else that is nice later, possibly tonight.
...

I figured it out, but thanks for looking. I need the line:

str[num-1] = '\0';

Thanks :)
Diode

Hello, :)

I have chosen to go with getch() for my keyboard input.

However, when I went to experiment with it, I got some unexpected results. The 'Y' in 'Your word was ' is missing in the...

Would you suggest that I use getch() found in conio.h and convert it to C++ instead? I could do that, I just wanted to go old-school for fun, but whatever works.

Thanks,
Diode

Ok,

I'm using the Dev-C++ 4 compiler along with gcc.

I would have preferred it to be standard C, but since you informed me that it cannot be done with standard C, then I might have to suffer a...

Hello,

I am trying to develop something that, when you press a character on the keyboard, puts a char into a char-type variable. Should be easy right? Well, I don't want to require the user to...