textcolor

Function   Selects new character color in text mode.

Syntax   void textcolor(int newcolor);

Prototype in   conio.h

Return value   None.

See also gettextinfo, highvideo, lowvideo, normvideo, textattr, textbackground

Remarks

textcolor selects the foreground character color. The foreground color of all characters subsequently written by console output functions will be the color given by newcolor. You can give the color using a symbolic constant defined in conio.h. If you use the constants, you must include conio.h

This function does not affect any characters currently on the screen, but only those displayed using direct console output (such as cprintf) after textcolor has been called.

The following table lists the allowable colors (as symbolic constants) and their numeric values:

Symbolic Constant	Numeric Value	Foreground or background?
BLACK	0	both
BLUE	1	both
GREEN	2	both
CYAN	3	both
RED	4	both
MAGENTA	5	both
BROWN	6	both
LIGHTGRAY	7	both
DARKGRAY	8	foreground only
LIGHTBLUE	9	foreground only
LIGHTGREEN	10	foreground only
LIGHTCYAN	11	foreground only
LIGHTRED	12	foreground only
LIGHTMAGENTA	13	foreground only
YELLOW	14	foreground only
WHITE	15	foreground only
BLINK	128	foreground only

You can make the characters blink by adding 128 to the foreground color. The predefined constant BLINK exists for this purpose. For example,

  textcolor(CYAN + BLINK);