Hi ,I am unable to print on console with different different colors and background which is my project demand ,I also tried the ANSI sys type of printi yet i didnt find the solution can anybody help me in this regard.

[Dhanush_Gowda]

Re: Qt Console Application - Print colored text

[SGaist]

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[Kent-Dorfman]

I vaguely remember that modern windoze cmd.exe doesn't support ansi control sequences anymore.

[JonB]

@Kent-Dorfman
Indeed!

@Dhanush_Gowda
You may have to read through https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16755142/how-to-make-win32-console-recognize-ansi-vt100-escape-sequences.

[Chris Kawa]

On Windows you just need to enable virtual terminal processing (include Windows.h):

DWORD mode;
HANDLE h = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
GetConsoleMode(h, &mode);
SetConsoleMode(h, mode | ENABLE_VIRTUAL_TERMINAL_PROCESSING);

printf("\033[31mRed\033[32mGreen\033[34mBlue");

or you can go native and use console APIs directly:

HANDLE h = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
SetConsoleTextAttribute(h, FOREGROUND_RED);
printf("Red");
SetConsoleTextAttribute(h, FOREGROUND_GREEN);
printf("Green");
SetConsoleTextAttribute(h, FOREGROUND_BLUE);
printf("Blue");