Print Coloured Text to Console in C++

Question

I would like to write a Console class that can output coloured text to the console.

So I can do something like (basically a wrapper for printf):

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Answer 1

I did a search for "c++ console write colored text" and came up with this page at about 4 or 5. As the site has a copy & paste section I thought I'd post it here (another question on link rot also prompted this):

#include 
#include 
#include 

using namespace std;

enum Color { DBLUE=1,GREEN,GREY,DRED,DPURP,BROWN,LGREY,DGREY,BLUE,LIMEG,TEAL,
    RED,PURPLE,YELLOW,WHITE,B_B };
/* These are the first 16 colors anyways. You test the other hundreds yourself.
   After 15 they are all combos of different color text/backgrounds. */

bool quit;

void col(unsigned short color)
{
    HANDLE hcon = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
    SetConsoleTextAttribute(hcon,color);
}

istream &operator>> ( istream &in, Color &c )
{
    int tint;
    cin >> tint;
    if (tint==-1) quit=true;
    c=(Color)tint;
}

int main()
{
    do {
        col(7); // Defaults color for each round.
        cout << "Enter a color code, or -1 to quit... ";
        Color y;
        cin >> y; // Notice that >> is defined above for Color types.
        col(y); // Sets output color to y.
        if (!quit) cout << "Color: " << (int)y << endl;
    } while (!quit);
    return 0;
}

For C# there's this page