From:	Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Allegro - textmode() help
Date:	Sun, 31 Aug 1997 01:51:07 +0100
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Michael McPheat writes:
>Does the textmode function work?

Yep.

>I am wanting to use textmode(-1) to use transparent text but when I set
>textmode() to any value I get a protection violation and subsequent program
>termination. 

That should be text_mode(), not textmode(). The version withuot an
underscore is a libc conio function for setting a text screen mode.
Confusing, I know, and I really should have called the Allegro function
something else, but the font stuff is one of the most ancient parts of
Allegro and dates back many years to the Atari ST, where there was no
such thing as a conio for it to conflict with :-)


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