desperate need of help!!!!

[gokul_k]

I'm working on a c++ program for a school project and I'm in desperate need
of help. Is there anyway i can change the background color of the program
from black to white? I've tried SetConsoleTextAttribute(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE),
BACKGROUND_GREEN); but it only changes the background within the font. Is
there any other way to change the background's color?

[ralph]

"gokul_k" <write2gokul@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>I'm working on a c++ program for a school project and I'm in desperate need
>of help. Is there anyway i can change the background color of the program
>from black to white? I've tried SetConsoleTextAttribute(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE),
>BACKGROUND_GREEN); but it only changes the background within the font. Is
>there any other way to change the background's color?

When you first create your buffer you can set the foreground and background
using SetConsoleTextAttribute() to fill your whole buffer. M$ publishes a
little routine that is used to 'clear' a screen, you can adapt that to "color"
a screen.

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;EN-US;Q99261

A cheap trick, (if you really aren't planning to use different colors is:
system("color 70"); // at the start of your program
...
system("color"); // at the end of your program

this will produce black text on white.
Type "color /?" on the cmd line to see your other options.

[ralph]

"ralph" <nt_consulting32@hotmail.com> wrote:
> ...
>A cheap trick, (if you really aren't planning to use different colors is:
> system("color 70"); // at the start of your program
> ...
> system("color"); // at the end of your program
>
>this will produce black text on white.
>Type "color /?" on the cmd line to see your other options.
> ...

I lied. The default color call ("color") will not work to set console colors
back to the default inside a program on some windows versions.