I just recently bought an apple and I'm not very familiar with unix commands, so I was wondering if anyone knows the command to change the terminal's background and text color...

I was going to use this command in my program:


because I think doing it any other way will be much more difficult...

I'm writing a StickyNotes program and wanted it to be yellow and black

Thanks!

This post has been edited by lifeRoot: 1 Apr, 2007 - 08:06 PM

http://www.developer.com/open/article.php/631241
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/x329.html

The first link describes how to control the colors better, I think. However, I don't think these two articles give you the answer you are looking for.

Changing the overal background of the consol will be in the XWindows interface of the console itself. So if you want control over the entire background of then consol you wil need to write a UI or a GUI Program rather than a console program. I have just posted an answer to a simular question at :
http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/showtopic25845.htm

(OS X falls into the *nix category)

Thanks! One of the links had some info that helped me figure it out!

I would much rather write a stand-alone program than use console but I don't know how

I have done a little VB before... I have apple's Xcode too... is there anything I can use to make a graphical, window-based, program using C??

Ok, here's the solution, thanks to ajwsurfer, for anyone else that might be interested:


See that 34? That's what you use to change colors...

\033[34mThis is blue.\033[0m

Here's a list of different colors:
30 black foreground
31 red foreground
32 green foreground
33 brown foreground
34 blue foreground
35 magenta (purple) foreground
36 cyan (light blue) foreground
37 gray foreground

40 black background
41 red background
42 green background
43 brown background
44 blue background
45 magenta background
46 cyan background
47 white background

Commands can also be combined using a semicolon, like so:


Finally here is a list of other neat commands that go at the end (where the '0' is):
0 reset all attributes to their defaults
1 set bold
5 set blink
7 set reverse video
22 set normal intensity
25 blink off
27 reverse video off