Text Color on C Programming

Asked By edson chua 10 points N/A Posted on - 03/17/2012

What can I do to change the default color of the Text on C programming, (this should appear in the output window)?

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Answered By Emon Asejo 0 points N/A #102464

Text Color on C Programming

Hello Edson Chua,

All you need to make sure is to add the <windows.h> header for the script color to change as your need. Below is the snippet you can try with entering different values of c between 1 to 255 and suite yourself for the new look of your text appearance.

#include<stdio.h>
#include<windows.h>

int main() {
    HANDLE clr;
    int c=5;            // the value of c can be from 1 to 255
    clr=GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
    SetConsoleTextAttribute(clr, c);
    printf("%3d %sn", c, "You can choose from 1 to 255 for the variation of text color");
    getchar();
    return(0);
}

Hope this will help you to solve your problem. Thank you

Emon Asejo

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Answered By Kanhai Else 0 points N/A #102463

Text Color on C Programming

You need to use Windows API for the purpose

In order that you do it for Linux, the solution will not work. Only versions of C which support Windows API function can do the job.

Try the following C program

#include <stdio.h>

#inlclude<windows.h>

int main(){

HANDLE hand;                //CREATE A HANDLE FOR THE STANDARD OUTPUT.

int i=100;    //vary fro m 1 to 255

hand=GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);                       //ASSIGN HANDLE TO THE CORRECT STD_OUTPUT

SetConsoleTextAttribute ( hand, i);                            //ASSIGNING A COLOR DESCRIBED BY 'i' TO BE DISPLAYED. 

printf(“%3d %sn”, i, ”Greate color”);                 //PRINT A TEXT SHOWING COLOR.

getchar();

return(0);

}

You can vary i from 1 to 255 to obtain different colors for the text being printed. This is amazing. Is not it?

You can change the color of code too in Linux. Try it.

Thanks.

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Answered By edson chua 10 points N/A #102465

Text Color on C Programming

That's it Edmon. You got it. Thanks on that help! Got changes on the default text color because of your comment. Thank you techyv!@@

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