How To Change Text Color In A Console Window In Visual C++?

please can anyone help me... I am in my first year at uni, and i am writing a small text menu based program in visual C++. I just want to know how would i go about changing text color in the console window from white to something else.

Like i said i am really new to C++ so i would be greatful if you could lay it out a little clearly for me.

Thanks,
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#include windows.h

SetConsoleTextAttribute(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE), 3);

replace 3 with the number of the color.

use a library like PDCurses if your doing lot of console IO + colour etc.

then it can be interchanged on unix box with NCurses.

PDCurses + NCurses are very good!

my roguelike on win32 uses PDCurses and NCurses on freebsd+linux.
works a treat.

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Originally posted by df
use a library like PDCurses if your doing lot of console IO + colour etc.

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Where can you pick up these libraries?


EDIT: Found them at SourceForge, thanks