Change Console background to a colour

[Robin53]

I want to be able to change the entire default console background to the colour green. Many people have posted examples but when I use:

 int main()
{
	SetConsoleTextAttribute(
		GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE), BACKGROUND_GREEN);

This only changes the text background to green not the actual console background, how can I do this?

[Thomas1965]

Calling ClrScr() after setting the bg color should do.

void ClrScr()
{
  COORD coordScreen = { 0, 0 };  
  DWORD cCharsWritten;
  CONSOLE_SCREEN_BUFFER_INFO csbi;
  DWORD dwConSize;
  HANDLE hConsole = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);

  GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo(hConsole, &csbi);
  dwConSize = csbi.dwSize.X * csbi.dwSize.Y;
  FillConsoleOutputCharacter(hConsole, ' ', dwConSize, coordScreen,
    &cCharsWritten);

  GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo(hConsole, &csbi);
  FillConsoleOutputAttribute(hConsole, csbi.wAttributes, dwConSize,
    coordScreen, &cCharsWritten);

  SetConsoleCursorPosition(hConsole, coordScreen);
}

[homy18]

See http://www.cplusplus.com/articles/SEN36Up4/

[Robin53]

@Thomas1965 - no that doesn't seem to work.

[Robin53]

Sorted it!

[MikeyBoy]

@Robin53 Care to share your solution, so that others can learn from this thread?

[Robin53]

I used system("color 20");

[Ganado]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19913446/why-should-the-system-function-be-avoided-in-c-and-c