[C++] Coloured text and background

Is there a surefire way to get different coloured text on all platforms or should I write off those marks now?

Google is full of rubbishness in this area and maybe others would find a clear answer useful on here too for the cw. Anyway cheers

I don't think C or C++ understand colours, they need external libraries. I know that in Windows you can use system() calls or include <conio.h> and format using cprintf. I'm not sure about Linux but you can't use those same commands so I don't think you can do it for the coursework I'm afraid. :/

I guess if you could detect which OS is being used you could switch between commands but that could be a lot of work. :/

I thought that might have been the case. No colours it is then

cheers I think I saw a quick way of testing what os you had (like searching for or something similar)

There is a way of doing it in C++ to the console...I think you need to output the VT100 escape codes to do it...
Have an experiment with them see what you find.