From: "Smith A. Cat" <imbe AT primenet DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: simple question re: conio.h
Date: 14 Jan 1998 20:49:00 -0700
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I am writing a program that requires a LOT of user input at the
beginning, and colored text would be VERY useful.  I hacked the PDCurses
package to remove conflicts with Allegro and conio.h, (undef all the
KEY_**'s in Allegro.h, recompile PDCurses with hline, vline, and close
all renamed to _*****, and don't use conio.h with it!) but it seems like
an extreme move just to get colored text (in text-mode).

Has anyone got a code fragment that uses conio.h functions to get
colored text?? When I try to use them I ALWAYS get the default colors in
effect at the program startup, I can't set the colors!!?? I can set the
lines to this and that, and I can gotoxy(), but I can't set the
colors?!?!?

Maybe I should just break down and learn to use the Allegro GUI
routines. 

Anybody figure this out?

Thanks!

Phil