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From: Shawn Hargreaves <ShawnH AT Probe DOT co DOT uk>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: help on allegro menus
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 12:21:10 -0000
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The Lee, You Know Who writes:
> 1.) why does the background color of the textout() functions alternate
> between red and black? (e.g. click on "rectangle", background of textout
> is black, click on "circle", background of textout is red, click on
> "triangle", background of textout is black, etc ...)

This one is answered in the Allegro FAQ, which says:

   The textout() function doesn't work after I use any of the GUI routines!

      One of the GUI objects has changed the text_mode() setting while it
      was drawing itself. Call text_mode() again to select whatever
      background color you want to use.

> 2.) why is there a tick beside the 'circle' menu option? how can i
> remove that tick?

You aren't initialising the flags field in your menu structures, so
it will be containing random garbage. Sometimes, that garbage might
happen to contain a D_SELECTED bit, which displays the check mark.
You need to make sure the flags are zeroed.


	Shawn Hargreaves.