how to get current console background and text colors?

Question

I know how to set them (SetConsoleTextAttribute) but there isn\'t a GetConsoleTextAttribute to retrieve this information. On a unaffected console it should be int 7.

Answer 1

Thanks to Talent25 I made this function:

#include     
bool GetColor(short &ret){
        CONSOLE_SCREEN_BUFFER_INFO info;
        if (!GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE), &info))
            return false;
        ret = info.wAttributes;
        return true;
}

using it:

GetColor(CurrentColor);

CurrentColor - variable for output number of color (background * 16 + main color). Returned value informs if action was successful.