Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: ronald owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 13:52:45 +0200 (CEST) From: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak X-X-Sender: ronald@localhost.localdomain To: Hans cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: textcolor() for cygwin? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Hans wrote: > This must be a simple question but for some reason my google search > turned up nothing useful. I would like to change the textcolor using C, > is there any simple way of doing this? I don't need screen control or > anything fancy, just change some text strings to red, Actually, changing the color of a displayed text is pretty fancy, if you ask me! How are you going to change the color on a B/W terminal? How are you going to know your terminal is B/W if you don't want to do something in the least bit fancy? Anyway, try using curs_color(3X) from ncurses - that should help and does most of the fancy stuff for you :) HTH rlc BTW: ncurses is in the Cygwin net distri, before anyone asks.. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/