Ascii color in console program?

[kodiak]

Hi, I have absolutely no clue how to implement Ascii color into a console program. I have tried google, but it only finds irrelevant things...

~thanks!!!!!~

Kodiak!!!

[kodiak]

OOPS!!

Sorry guys... I should probabaly include that my compiler is dev c++ version 4.9.9.2,

Plus, are there any libraries out there that do this??

[iamthwee]

Using colour in console programs, is, as you might have guessed non standard/portable.

You could of course use a third party graphics library or if you are on windows perhaps you might want to use:
http://faq.cprogramming.com/cgi-bin/smartfaq.cgi?answer=1048382857&id=1043284392

Personally I don't see any reason for colours in the console window.

[spider_pig]

If you put

void setcolor(unsigned short color)                
{                                                   
    HANDLE hcon = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
    SetConsoleTextAttribute(hcon,color);
}

this before the main process you can call the setcolor function before you print to the screen using numbers 0 to 15 as parameters eg

setcolor(3);
cout << "I'm blue";

Experiment and see what colors you get, 0 is black so you might not see anything!