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- From: bt00@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (Binod Taterway)
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- Subject: Changing text color and detecting screen size ...
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.211144.111789@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 21:11:44 GMT
- Organization: Lehigh University
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- I have asked this question before but I did not get satisfactory replies.
- Here goes again.
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- I have written a C program that uses curses. Without using video libraries
- and other complicated procedure, I would want to change text colors:
- foreground and background. I will be perfectly happy with 7 colors. I looked
- in the MSDOS Encyclopedia, and found Int 10H for video functions. I am not
- clear whether or not this is the interrupt routine I should use. Any
- suggestions to this effect will be appreciated.
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- Along the same lines, how do I detect number of lines and columns of a
- screen. Note I am not doing any video programming. I have seen programs that
- convert your screen to 80x28. My program uses only 25 lines instead of 28.
- Where do I look for the number of lines/columns? Is it somewhere stored in the
- BIOS area? Thanks a bunch.
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- -Binod
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- Binod Taterway
- Sr. User Consultant, LUCC
- bt00@Lehigh.EDU
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