// change text color in Windoze console mode
// colors are 0=black 1=blue 2=green and so on to 15=white  
// colorattribute = foreground + background * 16
// to get red text on yellow use 4+14*16
// tested with Pelles C  (vegaseat)  
 
#include <stdio.h>
#include <windows.h>   // or other WinApi header
 
 
int main()
{
  HANDLE  hConsole;
	int k;
 
  hConsole = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
 
  for(k = 1; k < 25; k++)
  {
    SetConsoleTextAttribute(hConsole, k);
    printf("%2d  %s\n", k, "I want to be nice today!");
  }
 
  getchar();  // cheap wait
  return 0;
}