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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
thats is for pure dos only, you can't in a consol.
Ok, thnx. So, how can i do it in dos?
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...
Sorry, i hav no idea what you talking about. Is there something, maybe a tutorial to do colors in dos?
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.(*);
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.