[Shukumei]

Hi, I seem to be having trouble finding a way to color text in my win32 Console program - I know how to change the colour of all the text in the window, how ever I just want to change the colour of specific words.
If anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated:)

Here is a small part of the coding I use to change all color in the window:
Sorry if my coding is sloppy - still learning,

bool Menu()
{
	char cMenu;
	char qMenu;

HANDLE hConsole;
	hConsole = GetStdHandle (STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);

do
{
Menu:
	system("CLS");
	gotoxy(35,13);
	SetConsoleTextAttribute
	(hConsole, FOREGROUND_BLUE | FOREGROUND_INTENSITY);
	cout << "Menu\n\n";
	gotoxy(30,15);
	cout << "(S)Start Game\n";

** Edit **

[no2pencil]

#include <stdio.h>
#include<iostream.h>
#include<conio.h>

int main(void) {
  cout << "regular " << '\033' << '[' << "boldface" << endl;
}

[Shukumei]

Thank you for your reply, however I have tried this approch and it only prints 'regular<[boldface' to the window - no actual change to the text that was already there

[DaneAU]

I did something like this once

void ChangeColour(WORD theColour)
{
    HANDLE hConsole = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);  
    SetConsoleTextAttribute(hConsole,theColour);        
}

Then in your program

int main()
{
   ChangeColour(FOREGROUND_GREEN);
   // codes and printf's etc...

   ChangeColour(FOREGROUND_BLUE);
   // more codes

}

Works for me hope it helped

[Shukumei]

Thank you very much it worked wonderfully