How to change text color and console color in code blocks

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I am writing a program in C  I want to change the text color and background color in the console  My sample program is -    include  lt stdio h gt   include  lt stdlib h gt   include  lt windows h gt   include  lt dos h gt   include  lt dir h gt   int main int argc char  argv       textcolor 25    printf   n  n  t This is dummy program for text color      getch      return 0      When I compile this program code  blocks gives me an error - textcolor not defined  Why is this so  I work in a GNU GCC compiler and Windows Vista  If it is not going to work what is the duplicate of textcolor  Like that I want to change the background color of the console  The compiler gives me the same error just the name of the function is different  How to change the color of the console and text  Please help   I am okay even if the answer is in C

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An Easy Approach     system  Color F0      Letter Represents Background Color while the number represents the text color   0   Black  1   Blue  2   Green  3   Aqua  4   Red  5   Purple  6   Yellow  7   White  8   Gray  9   Light Blue  A   Light Green  B   Light Aqua  C   Light Red  D   Light Purple  E   Light Yellow  F   Bright White

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Functions like textcolor worked in old compilers like turbo C and Dev C  In today s compilers these functions would not work  I am going to give two function SetColor and ChangeConsoleToColors  You copy paste these functions code in your program and do the following steps The code I am giving will not work in some compilers   The code of SetColor is -    void SetColor int ForgC          WORD wColor         HANDLE hStdOut   GetStdHandle STD OUTPUT HANDLE         CONSOLE SCREEN BUFFER INFO csbi                            We use csbi for the wAttributes word       if GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo hStdOut   amp csbi                             Mask out all but the background attribute  and add in the forgournd     color           wColor    csbi wAttributes  amp  0xF0     ForgC  amp  0x0F             SetConsoleTextAttribute hStdOut  wColor               return       To use this function you need to call it from your program  For example I am taking your sample program -    include  lt stdio h gt   include  lt stdlib h gt   include  lt windows h gt   include  lt dos h gt   include  lt dir h gt   int main void      SetColor 4     printf   n  n  t This text is written in Red Color  n       getch      return 0     void SetColor int ForgC      WORD wColor     HANDLE hStdOut   GetStdHandle STD OUTPUT HANDLE     CONSOLE SCREEN BUFFER INFO csbi                            We use csbi for the wAttributes word   if GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo hStdOut   amp csbi                         Mask out all but the background attribute  and add in the forgournd color       wColor    csbi wAttributes  amp  0xF0     ForgC  amp  0x0F         SetConsoleTextAttribute hStdOut  wColor       return      When you run the program you will get the text color in RED  Now I am going to give you the code of each color -   Name           Value                Black            0 Blue             1 Green            2 Cyan             3 Red              4 Magenta          5 Brown            6 Light Gray       7 Dark Gray        8 Light Blue       9 Light Green      10 Light Cyan       11 Light Red        12 Light Magenta    13 Yellow           14 White            15   Now I am going to give the code of ChangeConsoleToColors  The code is -   void ClearConsoleToColors int ForgC  int BackC      WORD wColor     BackC  amp  0x0F   lt  lt  4     ForgC  amp  0x0F                    Get the handle to the current output buffer     HANDLE hStdOut   GetStdHandle STD OUTPUT HANDLE                          This is used to reset the carat cursor to the top left   COORD coord    0  0                       A return value    indicating how many chars were written                          not used but we need to capture this since it will be                            written anyway  passing NULL causes an access violation     DWORD count                                    This is a structure containing all of the console info                          it is used here to find the size of the console   CONSOLE SCREEN BUFFER INFO csbi                     Here we will set the current color  SetConsoleTextAttribute hStdOut  wColor    if GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo hStdOut   amp csbi                                  This fills the buffer with a given character  in this case 32 space         FillConsoleOutputCharacter hStdOut   TCHAR  32  csbi dwSize X   csbi dwSize Y  coord   amp count          FillConsoleOutputAttribute hStdOut  csbi wAttributes  csbi dwSize X   csbi dwSize Y  coord   amp count                                This will set our cursor position for the next print statement        SetConsoleCursorPosition hStdOut  coord       return      In this function you pass two numbers  If you want normal colors just put the first number as zero and the second number as the color  My example is -    include  lt windows h gt             header file for windows  include  lt stdio h gt   void ClearConsoleToColors int ForgC  int BackC    int main     ClearConsoleToColors 0 15   Sleep 1000   return 0    void ClearConsoleToColors int ForgC  int BackC     WORD wColor     BackC  amp  0x0F   lt  lt  4     ForgC  amp  0x0F                    Get the handle to the current output buffer     HANDLE hStdOut   GetStdHandle STD OUTPUT HANDLE                          This is used to reset the carat cursor to the top left   COORD coord    0  0                       A return value    indicating how many chars were written                          not used but we need to capture this since it will be                            written anyway  passing NULL causes an access violation    DWORD count                                    This is a structure containing all of the console info                          it is used here to find the size of the console   CONSOLE SCREEN BUFFER INFO csbi                     Here we will set the current color  SetConsoleTextAttribute hStdOut  wColor    if GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo hStdOut   amp csbi                                  This fills the buffer with a given character  in this case 32 space         FillConsoleOutputCharacter hStdOut   TCHAR  32  csbi dwSize X   csbi dwSize Y  coord   amp count          FillConsoleOutputAttribute hStdOut  csbi wAttributes  csbi dwSize X   csbi dwSize Y  coord   amp count                                This will set our cursor position for the next print statement        SetConsoleCursorPosition hStdOut  coord       return       In this case I have put the first number as zero and the second number as 15 so the console color will be white as the code for white is 15  This is working for me in code  blocks  Hope it works for you too

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textcolor function is no longer supported in the latest compilers    This the simplest way to change text color in Code Blocks  You can use system function   To change Text Color     include lt stdio h gt    include lt stdlib h gt    as system function is in the standard library  int main                               system  color 1      here 1 represents the text color           printf  This is dummy program for text color              return 0              If you want to change both the text color  amp  console color you just need to add another color code in system function  To change Text Color  amp  Console Color    system  color 41      here 4 represents the console color and 1 represents the text color   N B  Don t use spaces between color code like these   system  color 4 1      Though if you do it Code Block will show all the color codes  You can use this tricks to know all supported color codes

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This is a function online  I created a header file with it  and I use Setcolor    instead  I hope this helped  You can change the color by choosing any color in the range of 0-256     Sadly  I believe CodeBlocks has a later build of the window h library      include  lt windows h gt               This is the header file for windows   include  lt stdio h gt                 C standard library header file  void SetColor int ForgC    int main         printf  Test color            Here the text color is white     SetColor 30                   Function call to change the text color     printf  Test color            Now the text color is green     return 0     void SetColor int ForgC         WORD wColor         This handle is needed to get the current background attribute       HANDLE hStdOut   GetStdHandle STD OUTPUT HANDLE        CONSOLE SCREEN BUFFER INFO csbi         csbi is used for wAttributes word       if GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo hStdOut   amp csbi                      To mask out all but the background attribute  and to add the color           wColor    csbi wAttributes  amp  0xF0     ForgC  amp  0x0F             SetConsoleTextAttribute hStdOut  wColor               return

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system  COLOR 0A      where 0A is a combination of background and font color 0

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You can also use rlutil    cross platform  header only  rlutil h   works for C and C    implements setColor    cls    getch    gotoxy    etc  License  WTFPL   Your code would become something like this    include  lt stdio h gt    include  rlutil h   int main int argc  char  argv          setColor BLUE       printf   n  n  t This is dummy program for text color         getch         return 0      Have a look at example c and test cpp for C and C   examples

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You should define the function textcolor before  Because textcolor is not a standard function in C   void textcolor unsigned short color        HANDLE hcon   GetStdHandle STD OUTPUT HANDLE       SetConsoleTextAttribute hcon color

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I Know  I am very late but  May be my answer can help someone  Basically it s very Simple  Here is my Code    include lt iostream gt   include lt windows h gt  using namespace std  int main         HANDLE colors GetStdHandle STD OUTPUT HANDLE        string text      int k      cout lt  lt   Enter your Text          getline cin text       for int i 0 i lt text length   i                  k gt 9   k 0   k             if k  0                        SetConsoleTextAttribute colors 1            else                       SetConsoleTextAttribute colors k                     cout lt  lt text at i             OUTPUT  This Image will show you how it works  If you want the full tutorial please see my video here  How to change Text color in C

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