There is. I am going to assume you are using C, not C++, and you are using the console. here it goes. this is probably going to be more complicated and tedious than the \n and \t, but its alot cooler.::
#include <stdio.h>
#include <windows.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#define SCREEN_WIDTH 79 //this is the default prompt window width( 80
//characters, 0 counts
#define SCREEN_LENGTH 24 //this is the default prompt window length, 25
void DrawColorString(char *szText, int X, int Y, WORD COLORS); //parameters:
//(string you want,x coordinate,y coordinate, the color).
//the colors are:
//BACKGROUND_RED,BACKGROUND_BLUE,BACKGROUND_GREEN,
//BACKGROUND_INTENSITY(makes the background color lighter),
//FOREGROUND_RED,FOREGROUND_BLUE,FOREGROUND_GREEN, and
//FOREGROUND_INTENSITY(makes the foreground color lighter)
void DrawColorString(char *szText, int X, int Y, WORD COLORS)
{
COORD screenPos={X, Y};
WORD *colorBuf=NULL;
DWORD dwResult=0;
HANDLE OutputH;
int length=0;
int i=0;
if(szText == NULL)
return;
OutputH = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
length = strlen(szText);
colorBuf = (WORD*)malloc(sizeof(WORD) * length);
for (i=0; i < length; i++)
{
colorBuf[i] = COLORS;
}
WriteConsoleOutputAttribute(OutputH, colorBuf, length, screenPos, &dwResult);
WriteConsoleOutputCharacter(OutputH, szText, length, screenPos, &dwResult);
free(colorBuf);
colorBuf = NULL;
} //if you understand all of that, you do, and if you dont, you dont. lol
int main() {
DrawColorString("Word here!", 7, 2, FOREGROUND_RED | FOREGROUND_INTENSITY | BACKGROUND_GREEN | BACKGROUND_RED | BACKGROUND_INTENSITY);
getchar();
return 0;
}
Noorez Kassam <coo...@ho...> wrote:
I want to output text in a program to the center of the command prompt
window. Is there a function that can help we with it so that I don't have to
use the '\n' and '\t' characters?
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