Easy! call SetConsoleTextAttribute function with appropriate color codes as follows… [sourcecode language=’cpp’]// A generic function call to set color for text being output void SetColor( const int Color ) { SetConsoleTextAttribute( GetStdHandle( STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE ), Color ); } int _tmain(int argc, TCHAR* argv[], TCHAR* envp[]) { // Only change foreground color SetColor( FOREGROUND_BLUE ); cout
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How to check for keyhit in a windows console application?
For this purpose we use _kbhit function included in conio.h file. Please note that conio.h is a non-standard header file so can’t say if _kbhit will be available in other libraries. The purpose of _kbhit is to check whether a key has been hit and so then we can use this function to wait till […]
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