consoleHANDLE

[vlad61]

HANDLE consoleHANDLE = GetStdHandle( STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE );

		

	cout<<"\311\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\273"
		<<"\n\272"<<SetConsoleTextAttribute( consoleHANDLE, 20)<<"Hit ENTER to continue\272"
		<<"\n\310\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\274";
		cin.ignore();

hey guys, why is there a 1 coming out in the output right before the HIT ENTER??

its confusing the crap out of me. it seems to be coming from the handle color code.

[guestgulkan]

Because SetConsoleTextAttribute( consoleHANDLE, 20) function gets called - and returns
a value of true or false - and it is this return value that is displayed ( 1 for true or 0 for false)

[vlad61]

so.. dont put it in between one cout is what you mean?

[Thumper]

Yeah, that's what he meant.

cout<<"\311\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\273"
       <<"\n\272";

SetConsoleTextAttribute( consoleHANDLE, 20);

cout <<"Hit ENTER to continue\272"
<<"\n\310\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\315\274";

cin.ignore();

that will work.

[vlad61]

Okay thank you. I have never received a good explanation about what return is so i just told myself to ignore it untill I get to higher levels.

[vlad61]

While I'm here, anyone can explain to me how I can figure out what my color will turn out without trial and error?

[Thumper]

http://cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/functions/
That will explain functions very well.

Functions have a type, just like '250' could be an int.

so if i had a function that looked like this

int Return500()
{
        return 500;
}

//then in main i did this
int main()
{
        cout << Return500() << endl; //the console will output '500', because the function is.. sort of a value itself.
}

The same applies to any other type of data

std::string ReturnHello()
{
        std::string str = "Hello";
        return str; //returns str, which equals "Hello"
}

//......

cout << ReturnHello() << endl; //would output "Hello" 

EDIT: And sure, i'll explain

BOOL WINAPI SetConsoleTextAttribute(
  __in  HANDLE hConsoleOutput,
  __in  WORD wAttributes
);

The first parameter is the handle to the console

WORD wAttributes is the color. Different color attributes you can use are here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682088%28v=VS.85%29.aspx#_win32_character_attributes

Example: to set the background to blue and the foreground to red, you'd use
SetConsoleTextAttribute(consoleHANDLE, BACKGROUND_BLUE | FOREGROUND_RED);