Windows Console color & position examples

ConsoleGotoXY.c

#include <windows.h>

void write(HANDLE hStdout, const char* message)
{
    DWORD t;
    WriteConsole(hStdout, (const void*)message, lstrlen(message), &t, NULL);
}

bool gotoxy(HANDLE hStdout, unsigned short x, unsigned short y)
{
   return SetConsoleCursorPosition(hStdout, (COORD){x,y});
}


int main()
{
	HANDLE hStdout = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);

    gotoxy(hStdout, 23,10);
    write(hStdout, "blog.davidxl.es");
    gotoxy(hStdout, 20,23);

    return 0;
}

ConsoleTextColor.c

#include <windows.h>

HANDLE hstdout;

void write(const char* message)
{
    DWORD t;
    WriteConsole(hstdout, (const void*)message, lstrlen(message), &t, NULL);
}

int main()
{
    hstdout = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);

    write("\n");
    SetConsoleTextAttribute(hstdout, FOREGROUND_INTENSITY | FOREGROUND_RED | BACKGROUND_INTENSITY
                                      | BACKGROUND_RED | BACKGROUND_GREEN | BACKGROUND_BLUE );
    
    for (int i = 0; i< 40; i++)
        write(" ");
    
    write("\n            blog.davidxl.es             \n");
    
    for (int i = 0; i< 40; i++)
        write(" ");
    
    SetConsoleTextAttribute(hstdout, FOREGROUND_INTENSITY);
    write("\n\n");
    
    for (int i = 0; i<256; i++)
    {
        SetConsoleTextAttribute(hstdout, i);
        write("?");
    }
    
    SetConsoleTextAttribute(hstdout,FOREGROUND_INTENSITY);
    return 0;
}