Anyone know where to find a reference that describes how to output color on the Windows CLI interfaces using API and/or stdout?
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The Win32 console API has a function, SetConsoleTextAttribute, that can be used to set the text foreground and background colours. Sample code is here.
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At least there is the color command:
color bg fg
where:
0: Black
1: Blue
2: Green
3: Cyan
4: Red
5: Purple
6: Yellow
7: Gray
8: Silver
9: Light blue
A: Lime
B: Light cyan
C: Light red
D: Light purple
E: Light yellow
F: White
Example:
color 80
Gives a silver background with black text.
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zhaorufei
The darwback of color is whenever you specify a color scheme, the whole screen all uses this scheme, including already-output colored text. In other word, you can see only one text color at the same time.
Not exactly a reference but it should help you find what you're looking for on MSDN, check out:
http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=457528.
You probably want to look up "WriteConsoleOutput".
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in powershell write-host takes -backgroundcolor and -foregroundcolor parameters
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Mark Tomlin
Even cooler, it accepts an array as a parameter! So this is valid and produces Pink:
write-host "I'm Pink" -ForegroundColor Red, Blue
Jimmy
wow, that makes no sense at all to me. it uses the sum of the color values as the result?