How To Change Background Color In C++

08-09-2007

Is it possible to alter the black color groundwork to a different colour?
If it is possible may sharing how to do it..

cheers

08-09-2007

well....that is very arrangement specific to be honest. There is not one standard way to do it.

Windows, Mac Os X, and Linux all take shells where you tin can physically change the background color options by selecting some kind of "preferences" menu (slightly varies depending on the Bone).

But I know that'due south not what you desire to know...you want to know how to do it in your program.

If you are using Windows/DOS: lots of older compilers came with a not-standard header file called dos.h that you could use to exercise some DOS specific stuff, including change the groundwork color I believe...merely well-nigh likely you lot won't have that file, and and then that probably won't piece of work.

Nigh probable you lot will have to employ some sort of system() command to be able to practise it...but I am not familiar with what the command would really be....

08-09-2007

Code:

#include <stdio.h>  int main() {     /* Some listing of combinations            0 = Black      1 = Blueish      2 = Green      iii = Aqua      iv = Red      v = Majestic      6 = Yellow      7 = White      8 = Greyness     9 = Light Blue     A = Light Greenish     B = Light Aqua     C = Light Red     D = Light Regal     E = Light Yellow     F = Bright White */          printf("This is a console color change program\n");     system("COLOR F2"); /* This will change the bgcolor F - White and textcolor to 2- Dark-green */           getchar();     return 0; }

This lawmaking is more specific to DOS . It works fine on DOS 5.1.2600 version

ssharish2005

08-09-2007

Quote Originally Posted by ssharish2005 View Post

This code is more specific to DOS . It works fine on DOS 5.1.2600 version

Dare I fifty-fifty ask why yous're running DOS 5?

08-09-2007

Quote Originally Posted past brewbuck View Post

Dare I even inquire why you lot're running DOS five?

maybe the unparalleled privilege settings?

08-09-2007

"DOS v.one.2600" looks suspiciously liek the version of Windows XP SP2 to me. My Win2K shows "5.0.2195" when I do "ver" in a command prompt. I'm pretty darn sure in that location wasn't a "five.1.2600" version of MS-DOS (or PC-DOS for that matter).

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