How do you output text in different colors?

In Windows you can use
SetConsoleTextAttribute(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE), MyColor);
but this doesn't work in *nix

Thanks in advance

what language?

C++

anyone know?

yeh...i wanted to know too. they say you need an OS-specific library to handle colors, however I have no idea what linux libraries exist....

Use terminal commands to change the colors on the terminal.
For example:
printf("\033[22;31mHello, world!\n");
will print 'Hello, world!' with a red foreground at normal intensity

\033[ - the character sequence to start a terminal command
22 - normal intensity
31m - red

You can make the text blink and do other ugly things, too.
Also, you can use terminal commands in your command prompt if you are so inclined.
Type 'man console_codes' for more details.

Alternatively you can use the ncurses library when programming in C/C++.

Just to elaborate on this. What this is is the use of ANSI codes to change colours.
the \033 is the ANSI escape sequence that starts the block.
Colour codes can be found here:
http://pueblo.sourceforge.net/doc/ma...lor_codes.html