Colour for beginners

[functziah]

I am writing a relatively simple program in C (C++ not allowed) and need to emphasise on-screen text.

I would like to do this with colour but have no idea if this is even possible.

Functziah

 

[keenanbr]

if using unix try

man curses

it will show you all you need to know

 

[functziah]

Sorry no Unix. I compile in Visual or TC. (I'm just at the studying stage I)

 

[abbeman]

Hmm, you should be able to use ansi-colors, ie. escape sequences to get colors.

I haven't tried this in win/dos for years, but in linux you can do this (it should work under win as well) :
printf("%c[34mBlue!!%c[37m\n", 27, 27);

(27 is the ASCII-code for <escape>)

This prints the text &quot;Blue!!&quot; with blue foreground.

The 37 resets the foreground to white afterwards since a change like this is done for ever, until one changes the color back. Try it out =)

Here is a link to a site where you can find out a lot of weird stuff one can do with escape sequences and a color of all color values (note that setting black fg on black bg is _not_ a lot of fun )

http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/ansi_escapes.html

Have fun!