Text colour and Sleep

[Anne693]

How to make the system sleep for sometime (like seconds)?
Also, how to change the text colour in c++?
I saw a program written a long time ago and it uses dos.h but it isn't usable in windows.
I am using codelite for writing c++ programs.

[Thomas1965]

How to make the system sleep for sometime (like seconds)?

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms686298(v=vs.85).aspx

Also, how to change the text colour in c++?

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms686047(v=vs.85).aspx

[mbozzi]

You should almost always prefer the standard APIs over platform APIs if possible. You can put the current thread to sleep using
std::this_thread::sleep_for().
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/thread/this_thread/sleep_for/