Formatting

[Armageddon]

Hi.
I was just wondering if there was any way to format the text in a C++ program (i.e. bold, italic, underline, blinking, color), that is also non-OS specific (conio.h is only for Windows right?).

Thx

[Disch]

You mean for the console?

There's no standard way, no. Libs like ncurses might have some features to do that though.

But really the console isn't designed for that kind of thing.

[Raggers]

some consoles support this, there you have to printf() a special string to turn on and off a format.
like:

char ESC=27;
printf("%c[1m",ESC);  /*- turn on bold */
printf("%c[0m",ESC); /* turn off bold */

But I don't know which ones do and what the commands are.

[Armageddon]

oh okay, thank you anyway :)
I guess ill just stick to ASCII Art for now :P