How to change text or background color in a Windows console application

You can change the colors for a console application using Win32 and here’s an example on how to: #include “stdafx.h” #include <Windows.h> #include <iostream> using namespace std; int main(void) { HANDLE hStdout = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE); if (hStdout == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) { cout << “Error while getting input handle” << endl; return EXIT_FAILURE; } //sets the color to … Read more

How to create a marquee effect for a text of smaller length not exceeding the screen size in Android?

I used simple light weight of ticker like animation which I developed in my early Android days. below is complete code. Hope this helps. Works for all API levels of Android import android.os.Bundle; import android.app.Activity; import android.content.Context; import android.graphics.Color; import android.view.Menu; import android.view.View; import android.view.animation.Animation; import android.view.animation.TranslateAnimation; import android.widget.LinearLayout; import android.widget.TextView; public class MainActivity extends … Read more

How do you use the LaTeX blackboard font in MATLAB?

You might not have noticed it, but you get an warning message in the command prompt: Warning: Unable to interpret TeX string which tells you that MATLAB has trouble parsing your LaTeX expression. More specifically, the blackboard bold math font (indicated by the ‘\mathbb’) is not supported by MATLAB’s built-in LaTeX interpreter (it requires the … Read more

Difference between opening a file in binary vs text [duplicate]

The link you gave does actually describe the differences, but it’s buried at the bottom of the page: http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cstdio/fopen/ Text files are files containing sequences of lines of text. Depending on the environment where the application runs, some special character conversion may occur in input/output operations in text mode to adapt them to a system-specific … Read more