How to change text or background color in a Windows console application

Question

Which C++ function changes text or background color (MS Visual studio)? For example cout<<\"This text\"; how to make \"This text\" red color.

Answer 1

I believe that you are looking for the SetConsoleTextAttribute function. The first parameter, hConsoleOutput, would be the standard output handle obtained via GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE). The second parameter is a bitwise-OR (|) combination of the desired character attributes.

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