Multiple colors in one screen cmd

[peewster]

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.

[olivthill2]

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.

[peewster]

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

[S_M_A]

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/)

[peewster]

Ok i found the following solution:

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;
						}					
					}	
}