Re: Changing Text color

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From: Bob Gonder
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 16:44

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Mike King wrote:

>Does anyone know how to change the color of the text in a console
>application?
>
>printf("This is a test");
>setcolor(BLUE);
>printf("This is a test");
>setcolor(RED);

#define color(f, b) ((((f)&0xf)|((b)<<4))&0xff)

void _fastcall set_colors(BYTE f,BYTE b)
{	SetConsoleTextAttribute( stdout, color(f, b) );
}

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