Handle function- noob

[Bughi]

Hello everybody, i am a noob programer and i was looking over a program code and came up some things that i couldn't figure out what exacly do they do. The code is:

int SetColor(int color)
{
    HANDLE hConsole = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
    SetConsoleTextAttribute(hConsole, color);
}

and my question is about that 'HANDLE' and 'GetStdHanle()'.

i would appreciate if someone could post a link with functions in C::B.

Thank you for youre time.

[stahta01]

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