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 Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 9:38 am Post subject: Console Text Color |
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How would I use a custom color, like brown, for the text in a console? I've used CreateConsoleScreenBuffer, and that didn't help.
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| Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 10:59 am Post subject: |
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Well there are two ways that I know of and use.
The first is the systems "color" command. open a cmd.exe and type "color /?" for help on using it. You should be able to figure it out.
And in c++ for example, you could do system("color 0c"); which would give a black background with red text. The thing is about this one is that it changes the color of all the text in your console window so you may not want that.
Instead you might want to have certain output be in a certain color and other output in a different color. For that I use GetStdHandle(), and SetConsoleTextAttribute().
C++ example:
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HANDLE OutputHandle;
OutputHandle = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
SetConsoleTextAttribute(OutputHandle, FOREGROUND_BLUE | FOREGROUND_INTENSITY);
printf("this is blue text");
SetConsoleTextAttribute(OutputHandle, FOREGROUND_RED | FOREGROUND_INTENSITY);
printf("this is red text");
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doing it like that, the blue text will retain its color when you set the new text attribute.
There is only a few defined colors though
from msdn;
FOREGROUND_BLUE
FOREGROUND_GREEN
FOREGROUND_RED
But I think you can use more colors. You might want to try these, although I haven't tested them
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#define BLACK 0
#define BLUE 1
#define GREEN 2
#define CYAN 3
#define RED 4
#define MAGENTA 5
#define BROWN 6
#define LIGHTGREY 7
#define DARKGREY 8
#define LIGHTBLUE 9
#define LIGHTGREEN 10
#define LIGHTCYAN 11
#define LIGHTRED 12
#define LIGHTMAGENTA 13
#define YELLOW 14
#define WHITE 15
#define BLINK 128
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6 is Dark Yellow. I'm talking about using custom color like with brushes.
I wanted to be able to use this as a color RGB(128, 68, 0)
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You can only use 0, 128 or 255 RGB in a console.
0 - Don't pass the color as a parameter.
128 - Pass the color as a parameter.
255 - Pass the color as a parameter with FOREGROUND_INTENSITY.
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So what you are saying is that I'm stuck with those 15 text colors? But when you open up a console window and go to properties -> Colors you can change the colors to any value.
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| cmd.exe is a bit diffrent than the console window C/C++ programs use, when you run a program through the compiler without debugging it starts cmd.exe and using cmd.exe to run your process.
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