changing the background color of the cosole window?

[sail3005]

Is this possible? I would think that it would be, but have never seet it done. I am not talking about SetConsoleTextAttribute() to set the background of text, but i am talking about the whole console black background.

could you use FillConsoleOutputAttribute()?

[Zaei]

Perhaps you can use The function (dunno the name) to get the number of cells wide and tall the console is, and use a for loop to print out a solid block of color. Then just go back and set the cursor to 0,0, and the background color of the text to color.

Z.

[sail3005]

ummm...You wouldn't happen to have an example would you?

[MoMad]

Why would u wanna do that when u can just create a normal window and set its bg color and make it look like a console window... use courier new font

[sail3005]

i dunno, i usually like doing insane things.

[Megatron]

That will defeat the purpose of creating a console app.

One way to go about it is to set the backcolor, then use system("cls"); to clear the screen, and whole screen's backcolor will be set to that colour.

[sail3005]

YES!!! YES!!! YES!!! MEGATRON YOU ARE AWESOME!!!! THANKS A LOT!!!

[Megatron]

No prob

[Wynd]

That doesn't work for me. It colors up to the last thing i printed, but that's all.