Simple C++ Program -- Colored Text

Code:

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main(){
    system("Color 0A");
    cout << "I love the colors!\tDon't you?" << endl;
    system("pause");
    return 0;
}

You can play around with the colors, the first character is the background color and the second is the foreground.
The colors:

Code:

0 = Black       8 = Gray
1 = Blue        9 = Light Blue
2 = Green       A = Light Green
3 = Aqua        B = Light Aqua
4 = Red         C = Light Red
5 = Purple      D = Light Purple
6 = Yellow      E = Light Yellow
7 = White       F = Bright White

Also, if you set two colors the same it sets the warning to 1; you can run it but it really won't work to well

 

So make it to work well

 

When I said that I was talking about if you made both colors the same

 

This is Windows 2000+ only?

 

What are you talking about? Its C++ code. The only thing you need to worry about with OS' is if your computer can run a C++ IDE.

 

I think it'd work on any OS because I never made any API calls from windows

 

Doesn't system() pass the string to the command line? I'm not a C++ expert, hence why I'm unsure, but I would think it depends on whether your OS supports the color command or not.

 

It does depend on if the OS supports color or not, and it isn't supported on *nix systems. Oh well, there should be another way to do it in the *nix environment.

 

Yep, thanks I just wanted some clarification, because I'm just venturing into programming for different operating systems, and it's a zoo.