Hi folks, I recently noticed that the command line 'linuxconf' program has text-based colors in its interface... How would it be possible for me to utilize these colors in my own C, or C++, program? I remember doing this with ANSI colors back when I used to run my own PCBoard from DOS... I was also experienced in using the QuickBASIC color statement to print ANSI colors on SCREEN 0 (text mode)... Whenever I ask questions about color and graphics in "comp.lang.c" they send me elsewhere and say that it is compiler specific...??? I do not agree with this!!! I think that a C program can be written with ANSI escape characters in order to colorize a screen, and I believe that this would be included in the ANSI Standard of the C language... It isn't graphics functions, it just uses the ANSI escape sequences to print... I don't know, I may very well be wrong, but if I'm not, could someone please help me figure this out... If it is possible to present ANSI colors in a C program (and still complie to the ANSI C Standard) then could someone show me a "Hello World" kind of program that has a blue background with yellow writing (much like the 'linuxconf' console program)... Thanks a bunch for reading my ramblings...*s* Later, -- Trevor Penney, A+, Network+ Certified ---------------------- "That's alright, I still got my guitar"... -James Marshall Hendrix (11/27/1942-09/18/1970)
