how to get current console background and text colors?

A quick grep of wincon.h shows that CONSOLE_SCREEN_BUFFER_INFO has a wAttributes member which is documented as "The attributes of the characters written to a screen buffer by the WriteFile and WriteConsole functions, or echoed to a screen buffer by the ReadFile and ReadConsole functions." This matches the description of SetConsoleTextAttribute: "Sets the attributes of characters written to the console screen buffer by the WriteFile or WriteConsole function, or echoed by the ReadFile or ReadConsole function." The structure is returned by GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo.

Thanks to Talent25 I made this function:

#include <Windows.h>    
bool GetColor(short &ret){
        CONSOLE_SCREEN_BUFFER_INFO info;
        if (!GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE), &info))
            return false;
        ret = info.wAttributes;
        return true;
}

using it:

GetColor(CurrentColor);

CurrentColor - variable for output number of color (background * 16 + main color). Returned value informs if action was successful.