Add Color in Win32 Console Application

[Acer722]

I was just making a little rpg. It would be a lot better if I could add color to it. Does anybody know how to at color to a Win32 Console Application. The colors I only need are Red, Green, and Blue :P Thanx in advance.

[grady]

hehehe, is it like text based or something? what are you talking about?

[Acer722]

Its text based. Its all the standered grey color. How do I change the color of the text.

[grady]

There aren't any opengl commands that change the color of console text. I don't know what commands do either. sorry.

[Tron]

hehe... text mode is the most OpenGL-offtopic question i could imagine (;

u have to load the ANSI.SYS in the CONFIG.SYS... DEVICE= C:\[PATH]\ANSI.SYS
should be in the windows\command directory, but i'm not 100% sure
this enables some control commands, which can manipulate color, cursor-pos ...
but cant remember them anymore...

btw: aren't text mode games a bit outdated, are they?

[MButchers]

Hi there,

lookup WriteConsoleOutputAttribute in
MSDN

Think it may be what your after

[Deiussum]

Heheh, ANSI text. Brings back memories of connecting to local BBSes at 2400 bps before I had access to the Internet. Text based games aren't SO outdated. There are still a lot of text-based MUDS around. Some of them can even be addicting.

try a search at planetsourcecode.com also:

look at dos.h

[ryan]

Here's a novel idea: forget the Windows App and write a DOS program. If that is what you mean, then all the better. Here's how to have colored text, blinking text, different cursors, etc. Use the functions in conio.h . But don't use Microsoft's conio.h, because it doesn't have the functions I am talking about. Download another good compiler, DJGPP (uses gcc and gpp) and a IDE with it called Rhide. Get it at www.delorie.com/djgpp/ .

Look at the help files for conio.h in Rhide to get the specifics. For example, you call a text attribute modifying function, such as textcolor(int COLOR), and then use the set of functions which are like printf() and scanf(), but start with a 'c'.

Ex:

textcolor(BLUE); //cprintf() now prints in blue!

cprintf("blah %f", floatvar); //Do like always