Colored text in CLI

[darkhog]

As you probably know DOS, Linux and Windows supports colored text in their consoles (16 for foreground and 8 for bg). But how to change text color in CLI in FB?

[SARG]

From the help

Color : Sets the display foreground / background color that is used with console output and graphics output of text

Syntax : Declare Function Color ( ByVal foreground As Integer , ByVal background As Integer ) As Integer

Usage : Color [foreground] [, background]
result = Color [( [foreground] [, background] )]

Parameters
foreground = the foreground color to set
background = the background color to set

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' Sets 320x240 in 32bpp color depth
Screen 14, 32

' Sets orange foreground and dark blue background color
Color RGB(255, 128, 0), RGB(0, 0, 64)

' Clears the screen to the background color
Cls                     

' Prints "Hello World!" in the middle of the screen
Locate 15, 14
Print "Hello World!"

Sleep

[darkhog]

You did not understand my post, right? I want to do it in CLI w/out setting graphic mode (which will also spawn graphics window on Linux/Windows). Purely in CLI, like QBasic had different colors for its menus, etc. or Turbo Pascal had syntax highlight.

[MOD]

COLOR also works in console, you don't need a screen. It's always a good idea to read the wiki.

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Print 1234
Color 3, 0
Print 1234
Sleep

[SARG]

You did not understand my post, right? .

I understood it and my answer was right. Only the example was not corresponding.....I suppose you didn't read carefully the text of the post. But it doesn't matter ;-)

[darkhog]

Sorry. Was very furious when I wrote my 2nd post, because my girlfriend dumped me and that probably affected my judgment and way I wrote previous post. Again, sorry.

[counting_pine]

For what it's worth, the documentation page is online at http://www.freebasic.net/wiki/keypgColor. It's easier to see the code in its context there as a not-necessarily-entirely-relevant example.