Thread: Coloring in the background of shape rectangle...

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    Coloring in the background of shape rectangle...

    Hi,

    Can i do something like draw a small rectangle in the console window, lets say, in color red, and then write over the colored area in another color? How can i do that? I've seen other posts using conio.c, do i use it as well? Pls tell me how.

    thnx a lot

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    thats is for pure dos only, you can't in a consol.
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    Ok, thnx. So, how can i do it in dos?

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    setup a far pointer to 0xb800:0000... then you've got the 80 by 25 by 2 address to your text. i believe it's in the format of 8:4:4 bits [2 bytes per screen location] being ascii_character:foreground_color:background_charac ter... for each of the 80 by 25 text cells... organized in a 2d array [80 being the first dimension] of 2-byte data described above. have at it, and you'll find your way...
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    Sorry, i hav no idea what you talking about. Is there something, maybe a tutorial to do colors in dos?

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    Cool colors

    to change the background color in dos

    use : textbackground (1);
    clrscr();

    to change the color of text in dos

    use : textcolor (1);
    cprintf("text");

    change the color by changing the # in par.(*);

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    Re: Coloring in the background of shape rectangle...

    At least don't use conio.c, there would be further problems. There is a better solution in thread "coulor of text" or something, you find it if you search for textcolor or such. But *please* say whether it solved your problem, so one would know what advise to give.

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