Change single word color in a text with NCurses?

[Amiplus]

Hello everyone,

i would like to change a single or more word color in a text using NCurses, as follow:

The quick fox jumps over the lazy dog.

I would like to have fox in red color and lazy in yellow.

How can i do this?

[Handy Andy]

Hello Amiplus,

Not familiar with NCurses, but this is what I have found to work at least with windows.

The prototype:
void SetColor(int forground = 7, int background = 1);

I used the default values here to allow me to call this function with empty (). Kind of a reset if you will.

And the function:

void SetColor(int forground, int background)
{
	WORD consoleColor;
	HANDLE hStdOut = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
	CONSOLE_SCREEN_BUFFER_INFO csbi;
	if (GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo(hStdOut, &csbi))
	{
		consoleColor = (forground + (background * 16));
		SetConsoleTextAttribute(hStdOut, consoleColor);
	}
}  //  End SetColor() 

After awhile I found information to allow me to set the background colour.

You will call this function with the parameters of the function as, SetColor(Foreground, Background), before each letter, work or sentence.

I know this works with windows, but I am not sure about any other operating system. I will need to do some research on NCurses.

Hope that helps,

Andy

[Handy Andy]

Hello Amiplus,

I went looking for information about NCurses andcame up with this:

Google search:
https://www.google.com/search?safe=strict&source=hp&ei=gAvzWfr6JoPBmwHJ9rOIBQ&q=c%2B%2B+ncurses&oq=c%2B%2B+NCurses&gs_l=psy-ab.1.0.0l10.1791.5077.0.12474.6.5.0.0.0.0.223.689.0j4j1.5.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..1.5.685.0..35i39k1j0i131k1j0i20i264k1.0.JJgurmQyf-Q

First two links:
http://www.cs.ukzn.ac.za/~hughm/os/notes/ncurses.html
http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/beginner/150180/

Hope that helps,

Andy

[Amiplus]

Thank you for the reply.

I will check the links you've posted here.

It's curious how Ncurses miss the functions that you expect that should be present.

[Amiplus]

Haven't found any usefull information on the subject. Changing color in a text using ncurses is a bit difficulty.I found another console library that permit to change the color as follow: setBGcolor(red) or setFGcolor(blue). Btw i don't want to mix the two libraries (i don't know if could work).

Any other idea for ncurses?

Edit: found this really interesting. I willl resume the thread: http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/general/11032/

[Amiplus]

@forum admin: coul dbe possibile to reopen this thread?
http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/general/11032/

Thank you very much

[Enoizat]

It seems you’re struggling a lot about colourful console programs. If you fancy them, I’m not here to discourage you, but perhaps today the number of programmers really interested in this topic is decreasing. There’s a number of graphical libraries by which you could interact with the user to a degree you’re not likely to achieve by the console, and many of them are free to use or have very permissive licenses.
I’m just saying, if you decided to give a chance to one of them, maybe you’ll like that more than Ncurses.