UCOE (Unperiodic Console Of the Elements)

[TyranO]

This was my first program ever and it is not very useful unless you attend college and study in sciences and even there, you might find some things are faster. I made this to learn C++ and believe me I know the basics after 3800 lines of repetitive code.

This is a periodic table of the elements in a console program with cute little colors. I can post the source if you want it.

You can type commands such as:

H
Hyrdogen
1

table (cute ASCII periodic table)
tendency
info
constants
alka (alkalines)
all

etc.

http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/5822/ucoe3ov1.png

EDIT: Oh yeah and I never finished it. Elements from carbon and plus have less info.

[TyranO]

Here is the source for my console colors (Found it somewhere online a while ago, can't remember where) (probably the only useful thing you can get from this) :

void SetColor(int ForgC)
{
WORD wColor;
HANDLE hStdOut = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
CONSOLE_SCREEN_BUFFER_INFO csbi;

if(GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo(hStdOut, &csbi))
{
wColor = (csbi.wAttributes & 0xF0) + (ForgC & 0x0F);
SetConsoleTextAttribute(hStdOut, wColor);
}
return;
}

//This will set the forground and background color for printing in a console window.
void SetColor(int ForgC, int BackC)
{
WORD wColor = ((BackC & 0x0F) << 4) + (ForgC & 0x0F);;
SetConsoleTextAttribute(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HA NDLE), wColor);
return;
}

[Visionary]

Didn't see this before.

Thanks for sharing - would have been more helpful if I found it last week or so that I didn't have to google images everything, but apparantly I didn't .