printf() Does Not Display Text in the Current Text Color

ID: Q30371

5.00 5.10 6.00 6.00a 6.00ax 7.00 | 1.00

MS-DOS                           | WINDOWS

The information in this article applies to:

• The C Run-time (CRT), included with:

      - Microsoft C for MS-DOS, versions 5.0, 5.1, 6.0, 6.0a, and 6.0ax
      - Microsoft C/C++ for MS-DOS, version 7.0
      - Microsoft Visual C++ for Windows, version 1.0
  

The _settextcolor() function does not change the color of the text that the printf() function produces. The _outtext() function produces colored text; however, it does not provide the text formatting capabilities that printf() does. To create formatted and colored text, use the sprintf() function to format the text into a buffer and call _outtext() to display the buffer on the screen in the desired color.

Additional reference words: kbinf 5.00 5.10 6.00 6.00a 6.00ax 7.00 1.00 KBCategory: kbprg KBSubcategory: CRTIss Keywords : kb16bitonly

Last Reviewed: July 18, 1997