{"id":1668,"date":"2013-08-25T23:06:23","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T21:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mariusbancila.ro\/blog\/?p=1668"},"modified":"2018-01-02T23:51:11","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T21:51:11","slug":"cppconlib-a-cpp-library-for-working-with-the-windows-console","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mariusbancila.ro\/blog\/2013\/08\/25\/cppconlib-a-cpp-library-for-working-with-the-windows-console\/","title":{"rendered":"cppconlib: A C++ library for working with the Windows console"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"edit-icon-lite\">\nThis project has been moved to GitHub.<\/p>\n<p>New location: <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mariusbancila\/cppconlib\">https:\/\/github.com\/mariusbancila\/cppconlib<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>Many years ago I published on my blog a helper class for working with the Windows console that was wrapping the <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/ms682073.aspx\">Windows console API<\/a>. Looking back at it I realized it was a pretty naive implementation. So I decided to start a new and make something more flexible and easier to use. Hopefully, I was more successful. The result is a small C++ template library called <a href=\"https:\/\/cppconlib.codeplex.com\/\">cppconlib<\/a>, available on codeplex. <\/p>\n<p>cppconlib is built with C++11 features and requires Visual Studio 2012 or newer. The library is available in a single header called <tt>conmanip.h<\/tt> and provides a set of helper classes, functions and constants for manipulating a Windows console (using the Windows console functions). The library features the following components:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><tt>console_context&lt;T&gt;<\/tt>: represents a context object for console operations; its main purpose is restoring console settings; typedefs for the three consoles are available (<tt>console_in_context<\/tt>, <tt>console_out_context<\/tt> and <tt>console_err_context<\/tt>)<\/li>\n<li><tt>console&lt;T&gt;<\/tt>: represents a console objects providing operations such as changing the foreground and background colors, the input mode, screen buffer size, title, and others; typedefs for the three consoles are available (<tt>console_in<\/tt>, <tt>console_out<\/tt> and <tt>console_err<\/tt>)<\/li>\n<li>manipulating functions that can be used with <tt>cout<\/tt>\/<tt>wcout<\/tt> and <tt>cin<\/tt>\/<tt>wcin<\/tt>: <tt>settextcolor()<\/tt>\/<tt>restoretextcolor()<\/tt>, <tt>setbgcolor()<\/tt>\/<tt>restorebgcolor()<\/tt>, <tt>setcolors()<\/tt>, <tt>setmode()<\/tt>\/<tt>clearmode()<\/tt>, <tt>setposx()<\/tt>\/<tt>setposy()<\/tt>\/<tt>setpos()<\/tt>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The library can be downloaded from <a href=\"https:\/\/cppconlib.codeplex.com\">here<\/a>. Detailed documentation is available <a href=\"https:\/\/cppconlib.codeplex.com\/documentation\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mariusbancila.ro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/cppconlib.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mariusbancila.ro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/cppconlib.png\" alt=\"cppconlib\" width=\"677\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mariusbancila.ro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/cppconlib.png 677w, https:\/\/mariusbancila.ro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/cppconlib-300x199.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 677px) 100vw, 677px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Examples<\/h3>\n<p>The following example prints some text in custom colors and then reads text in a different set of colors.<\/p>\n<pre>\r\n#include \"conmanip.h\"\r\nusing namespace conmanip;\r\n\r\n#include &lt;iostream&gt;\r\n\r\nint main()\r\n{\r\n   \/\/ create a console context object, used for restoring console settings\r\n   console_out_context ctxout;\r\n   \/\/ create a console object\r\n   console_out conout(ctxout);\r\n\r\n   \/\/ change the title of the console\r\n   conout.settitle(\"cppconlib\");\r\n\r\n   \/\/ output text with colors\r\n   std::cout \r\n      &lt;&lt; settextcolor(console_text_colors::light_yellow)\r\n      &lt;&lt; setbgcolor(console_bg_colors::cyan)\r\n      &lt;&lt; \"This text is colored: \";\r\n\r\n   \/\/ read text with colors\r\n   std::string text;\r\n   std::cin \r\n      >> settextcolor(console_text_colors::cyan)\r\n      >> setbgcolor(console_bg_colors::light_yellow)\r\n      >> text;\r\n\r\n   std::cout << std::endl;\r\n\r\n   \/\/ restore console attributes (text and background colors)\r\n   ctxout.restore(console_cleanup_options::restore_attibutes);\r\n\r\n   return 0;\r\n} \/\/ -> console settings are restored here when the context object goes out of scope\r\n<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mariusbancila.ro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/cppconlib2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mariusbancila.ro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/cppconlib2.png\" alt=\"cppconlib2\" width=\"677\" height=\"342\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1673\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mariusbancila.ro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/cppconlib2.png 677w, https:\/\/mariusbancila.ro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/cppconlib2-300x151.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 677px) 100vw, 677px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The following code prints a rhomb to the console:<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nint main()\r\n{\r\n   console_out_context ctxout;\r\n   console_out conout(ctxout);\r\n\r\n   conout.settitle(\"cppconlib\");\r\n\r\n   int depth;\r\n   std::cout &lt;&lt; \"Depth (1-9)? \";\r\n   std::cin >> depth;\r\n\r\n   int middle = conout.getsize().X\/2;\r\n   for(int i = 1; i <= depth; ++i)\r\n   {\r\n      std::cout &lt;&lt; setposx(middle-i+1);\r\n\r\n      for(int j = 1; j&lt;=i; ++j)\r\n      {\r\n         std::cout &lt;&lt; i &lt;&lt; \" \";\r\n      }\r\n      std::cout &lt;&lt; \"\\n\";\r\n   }\r\n\r\n   for(int i = depth-1; i >=1; --i)\r\n   {\r\n      std::cout &lt;&lt; setposx(middle-i+1);\r\n\r\n      for(int j = 1; j&lt;=i; ++j)\r\n      {\r\n         std::cout &lt;&lt; i &lt;&lt; \" \";\r\n      }\r\n      std::cout &lt;&lt; \"\\n\";\r\n   }\r\n\r\n   return 0;\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mariusbancila.ro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/cppconlib3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mariusbancila.ro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/cppconlib3.png\" alt=\"cppconlib3\" width=\"677\" height=\"342\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mariusbancila.ro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/cppconlib3.png 677w, https:\/\/mariusbancila.ro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/cppconlib3-300x151.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 677px) 100vw, 677px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more details and updates check the project at codeplex: <a href=\"https:\/\/cppconlib.codeplex.com\/\">https:\/\/cppconlib.codeplex.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong>: A NuGet package for cppconlib is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nuget.org\/packages\/cppconlib\">available<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This project has been moved to GitHub. New location: https:\/\/github.com\/mariusbancila\/cppconlib Many years ago I published on my blog a helper class for working with the Windows console that was wrapping the Windows console API. Looking back at it I realized it was a pretty naive implementation. So I decided to start a new and make &#8230; <a title=\"cppconlib: A C++ library for working with the Windows console\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/mariusbancila.ro\/blog\/2013\/08\/25\/cppconlib-a-cpp-library-for-working-with-the-windows-console\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about cppconlib: A C++ library for working with the Windows console\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,52,8],"tags":[451,345,383,94,382,138,384,459],"class_list":["post-1668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c","category-tools","category-windows-programming","tag-c","tag-c11","tag-codeplex","tag-console","tag-cppconlib","tag-library","tag-open-source","tag-windows"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.3 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"cppconlib is an open-source C++11 template library for working with the Windows console.\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"max-image-preview:large\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Marius Bancila\"\/>\n\t<meta name=\"keywords\" content=\"c++,c++11,library,windows,console,cppconlib,codeplex,open-source\" \/>\n\t<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mariusbancila.ro\/blog\/2013\/08\/25\/cppconlib-a-cpp-library-for-working-with-the-windows-console\/\" \/>\n\t\t<meta name=\"generator\" content=\"All in One SEO (AIOSEO) 5.0.3\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Marius Bancila&#039;s Blog | About code. 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