Colouring A certain text in console ?

[oamsath]

Following up the following thread :
http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/beginner/13816/


I want to ask if there is a certain command to make the the console output certain texts in a color other than the default .. not all the console but a certain line ..

thanks

[cdh473]

Hrmm....
The only way I know of doing this is the system("color c") code or something...
Back when I used batch, I would do something like this(for C++, just put system("") around every line, put the line in the ""s.):

@echo off
title colortest
:start
cls
color a
echo This is line 1.
echo.
color b
echo This is line 2.
echo.
color c
echo This is line 3.
echo.
goto start

...
It would look really buggy, but it got the job done(only on windows :P).
It just refreshes as fast as it can, printing the same thing really fast repeatedly.
Let me know if that works for you.

[Gregor]

The below goes for windows

There is no command that writes text with a specified color, but there are commands that can change the text apperance. You can eazily write a wrapper for your own printf or if you're using std overload the << operator with a custom made class so i'd look look like this:

cout<<color::red<<"Hai"<<endl;//No class

or

cout<<Format(color::red, "Hai");//Class Format

operator overloading in Cpp is mighty strong:P

As for the functions, google "console functions msdn"

[Bazzy]

Have you tried all the solutions given at http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/beginner/13816/ ?
Some of them do what you are trying

[Cojones]

http://www.adrianxw.dk/SoftwareSite/Consoles/Consoles4.html
check that :)

this is one example on that site. compile it and see if it does what you want, if yes, read the rest about color on that site.

#include <windows.h>
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
    HANDLE hOut;

    hOut = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);

    SetConsoleTextAttribute(hOut,
                            BACKGROUND_RED);
    cout << "Red     " << flush;
    SetConsoleTextAttribute(hOut,
                            BACKGROUND_RED |
                            BACKGROUND_INTENSITY);
    cout << "Red     " << endl;

    SetConsoleTextAttribute(hOut,
                            BACKGROUND_GREEN);
    cout << "Green   " << flush;
    SetConsoleTextAttribute(hOut,
                            BACKGROUND_GREEN |
                            BACKGROUND_INTENSITY);
    cout << "Green   " << endl;

    SetConsoleTextAttribute(hOut,
                            BACKGROUND_BLUE);
    cout << "Blue    " << flush;
    SetConsoleTextAttribute(hOut,
                            BACKGROUND_BLUE |
                            BACKGROUND_INTENSITY);
    cout << "Blue    " << endl;

    SetConsoleTextAttribute(hOut,
                            BACKGROUND_RED | 
                            BACKGROUND_GREEN);
    cout << "Yellow  " << flush;
    SetConsoleTextAttribute(hOut,
                            BACKGROUND_RED | 
                            BACKGROUND_GREEN |
                            BACKGROUND_INTENSITY);
    cout << "Yellow  " << endl;

    SetConsoleTextAttribute(hOut,
                            BACKGROUND_GREEN | 
                            BACKGROUND_BLUE);
    cout << "Cyan    " << flush;
    SetConsoleTextAttribute(hOut,
                            BACKGROUND_GREEN | 
                            BACKGROUND_BLUE |
                            BACKGROUND_INTENSITY);
    cout << "Cyan    " << endl;

    SetConsoleTextAttribute(hOut,
                            BACKGROUND_BLUE | 
                            BACKGROUND_RED);
    cout << "Magenta " << flush;
    SetConsoleTextAttribute(hOut,
                            BACKGROUND_BLUE | 
                            BACKGROUND_RED |
                            BACKGROUND_INTENSITY);
    cout << "Magenta " << endl;

    SetConsoleTextAttribute(hOut,
                            BACKGROUND_RED | 
                            BACKGROUND_GREEN | 
                            BACKGROUND_BLUE);
    cout << "White   " << flush;
    SetConsoleTextAttribute(hOut,
                            BACKGROUND_RED | 
                            BACKGROUND_GREEN | 
                            BACKGROUND_BLUE |
                            BACKGROUND_INTENSITY);
    cout << "White   " << endl;

    return 0;
}