From: myknees AT aol DOT com (Myknees)
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Subject: Re: Ascii Graphics
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Date: 14 Jul 1998 23:37:55 GMT
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In article <35A7CBAD DOT 5058 AT ghg DOT net DOT extra>, "R. Timm" <timmrb AT ghg DOT net DOT extra>
writes:

>Roger H. wrote:
>> 
>> It is quite easy and if you are using Rhide look under the help menu for
>the
>> libc reference which lists all the functions.  Anyway, you use
>> textbackground(int color)  for the background color  and textcolor(int
>> color) for the color of the text itself.
>> 
>
>I used the following program to try and get the range of colors :
>
>*****begin
>#include <iostream.h>
>#include <conio.h>
>
>int main()
>{
>  int i=0;
>  for(i=0; i<16; i++)
>  {
>    textcolor(i);
>    cout << "ABCDEFG\n";
>  }
>}
>
>*****end
>
>All I got for output was 16 rows of normal white ABCDEFG.  What am I
>doing wrong?  This seems like it should be simple.

Are you sure that you can mix iostream and conio functions like that?  I
program in C, but it seems that cout isn't going to care what settings you have
in textcolor--printf wouldn't, anyway.

If you're using conio, you might as well stick with it.  You can say, for
example,

#include	<conio.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    int n_text, c;

    cprintf("Hit a key to increment mode value.\n\r"
	    "(First textattr mode is black on black.)");
    for(n_text = 0; n_text < 255; ++n_text){
      textattr(n_text);
      cprintf("\n\rI can't believe it's not butter!  %d",n_text);
      if((c=getch())=='x' || c=='q')
	break;
    }
    textattr(7);
    if(c != 'x' && c != 'q')
      cprintf("\n\r(textattr 255 is white on white)");
    cprintf("\n\r");
    
    return 0;
}

/*
gcc -Wall -O example.c
*/

You could also probably use cout with ANSI escape sequences, as long as you
have ANSI.SYS installed.

--Ed (Myknees)