changing fore and backcolor in dos...

**danielkw** · Jan 17th, 2001, 04:17 PM

How do I change the fore and/or backcolor of the text that is printed using the printf() function?

**Vlatko** · Jan 17th, 2001, 05:36 PM

Code:

HANDLE handle = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
SetConsoleTextAttribute(handle,BACKGROUND_RED);

Code:

//extra info
Specifies the foreground and background color attributes. Any combination of the following values can be specified: FOREGROUND_BLUE, FOREGROUND_GREEN, FOREGROUND_RED, FOREGROUND_INTENSITY, BACKGROUND_BLUE, BACKGROUND_GREEN, BACKGROUND_RED, and BACKGROUND_INTENSITY. For example, the following combination of values produces white text on a black background: 
FOREGROUND_RED | FOREGROUND_GREEN | FOREGROUND_BLUE

**SteveCRM** · Jan 17th, 2001, 05:51 PM

'HANDLE' undelcared identifier

**Vlatko** · Jan 17th, 2001, 06:08 PM

Code:

#include <windows.h>
....
HANDLE handle = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
SetConsoleTextAttribute(handle,BACKGROUND_RED);

Jan 17th, 2001, 06:43 PM

I just wanna say thats not dos, its a windows console.

**SteveCRM** · Jan 17th, 2001, 07:29 PM

error C2501: 'SetConsoleTextAttribute' : missing storage-class or type specifiers

**SteveCRM** · Jan 17th, 2001, 07:40 PM

Code:

#include<iostream.h>
#include <windows.h>

HANDLE handle = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
SetConsoleTextAttribute(handle,BACKGROUND_BLUE);
SetConsoleTextAttribute(handle,FOREGROUND_RED && FOREGROUND_BLUE && FOREGROUND_GREEN && FOREGROUND_INTENSITY);

	
int main()
{
	int dummy;
	int newString[101]

	cout<<"Hello"<<endl;
	cin.getline(newString,101,'\n')

	cin>>dummy;
	return 0;
}

**SteveCRM** · Jan 17th, 2001, 08:17 PM

Never mind...got it

**danielkw** · Jan 18th, 2001, 08:39 AM

Does that code works in dos mode? I mean when you run the program from DOS, not from a DOS prompt in windows...

**Technocrat** · Jan 18th, 2001, 11:09 AM

No it would not because you are using the window.h, a windows only library, to set the DOS console colors, not the DOS colors. So you would have to be in windows for this to work.

**danielkw** · Jan 18th, 2001, 02:50 PM

But I want to know how to do it in DOS! It have to work in a way or another...
It's done in almost every game written for DOS. Take Doom as an example... When you start doom.exe the program initializes everything (the WAD etc) etc... The first room is white colored text with red background that says "DOOM V1.1666" or whatever... How do I do that?

**Technocrat** · Jan 18th, 2001, 06:23 PM

I think that you will run into the problem that ChimpFace9000 is having. see:
http://forums.vb-world.net/showthrea...threadid=48599
sorry

Thread: changing fore and backcolor in dos...

Thread Tools

Display

Does this work in dos?

but in dos then?

Posting Permissions