Description

This changes the color of the text / background of the text in a console window . Experiment with different numbers for setcolor(). Useful for menus .

Code

#include <stdio.h>
#include <windows.h>
#include <conio.h>


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

int main()
{
setcolor(1);
printf("thisll be blue\n");
setcolor(2);
printf("how about some green\n");
setcolor(5);
printf("and another color\n");

getch();


return 0;
}

Information

Tested on Visual C++

Download

setcolour.txt