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Colorizing text for a console

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PrograMan

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What would I have to do to colorized some of the text within a console? (It's better to have things colorized than a boring white all the time.)
 
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ProGraMan,

In the good old days of DOS, there used to be escape codes enabled by the ANSI.SYS device driver. They were of the format <ESC>[????. Where <ESC> is (char)0x1b of course.

Brudnakm.
 
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Sorry, I've never heard of that. Could you expand/clarify that a little bit?
 
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Check out the APIs:
-FillConsoleOutputAttribute
-SetConsoleTextAttribute
-WriteConsoleOutputAttribute

Hope this helps, s-)

Blessed is he who in the name of justice and good will, shepards the week through the valley of darkness...
 
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