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

Here is code snippet.

HANDLE                      m_hConsole;
WORD                        m_currentConsoleAttr;
CONSOLE_SCREEN_BUFFER_INFO   csbi;

//retrieve and save the current attributes
m_hConsole=GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
if(GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo(m_hConsole, &csbi))
    m_currentConsoleAttr = csbi.wAttributes;

//change the attribute to what you like
SetConsoleTextAttribute (
            m_hConsole,
            FOREGROUND_RED |
            FOREGROUND_GREEN);

//set the ttribute to the original one
SetConsoleTextAttribute (
            m_hConsole,
            m_currentConsoleAttr);