Multiple colors in one screen cmd

Hi all,

i've found several things to change the font color in the system output.

You can also use (windows only) system("color xy");
or define it in main with: SetConsoleTextAttribute(hConsole, 7);

Only the thing is, these lines affect everything. I realy like to know how i can set 2 characters in red and 2 in bue or something

Or maybe you can tell: system("color xy") where to stop using the colors and define new characters.

The command line window stores characters and their colors in a big array.
See http://www.arl.wustl.edu/~lockwood/c...23/CH23-1.html or search google with "color b800 video dos".
So, usually, you change the color of something by changing a few bytes in memory. The example is given in assembly, but it is the same thing for C, or maybe you can include some lines of assembly code into your C source file.

Thanks for the reply, i think i have to make some time free for this, still a newbie :)

I have never used it but this might an easier way than writing your own libs http://pdcurses.sourceforge.net/

Edit: or this one maybe http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/ncurses.htm (see also http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/)

Ok i found the following solution:

Code:

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void menu4()
{
        HANDLE hStdout;
        hStdout = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
        int col1 = 6; // Define colors.
        int col2 = 7; // "          "
        int col3 = 3; // "          "
        int loop=1;
        int men4;
                while(loop==1){
                        system("CLS");
                        SetConsoleTextAttribute(hStdout, col1); // Set text color
                                cout << "\n ::Networking Tools::\n";  SetConsoleTextAttribute(hStdout, col2); // Change color back to original.

                          cout        << "\n 1) Ping (Checks with icmp packet requests to see if a host is \"online\"."
                                        << "\n 2) Traceroute (Good way to follow your network packets)."
                                        << "\n 3) DNS Lookup (Gather DNS information)."; SetConsoleTextAttribute(hStdout, col3); cout
                                        << "\n\n 0) Return to main menu." << endl << endl; SetConsoleTextAttribute(hStdout, col2); cout
                                        << " Your choice (0..9): ";
                                                while(!(cin >> men4)){
                                                cin.clear();
                                                cin.ignore(numeric_limits<streamsize>::max(), '\n');
                                                cout << " Invalid input, try again.";
                                                cout << "\n Your choice(0..9): ";
                                                }
                                                switch(men4){
                                                        case 1:
                                                                  ping();
                                                                  break;
                                                        case 2:
                                                                  traceroute();
                                                                  break;
                                                        case 3:
                                                                  dnslookup();
                                                                    break;
                                                        case 0:
                                                                  return;
                                                }                                       
                                        }       
}

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