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From: "Johan Henriksson" <johan DOT he AT telia DOT com>
To: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: allegro and bitmaps
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 12:28:19 +0200
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from Johan Henriksson, Sweden    HTTP://come.to/jhewok  |
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>>2) how can i get text on the screen when i'm not in text mode but in vga
>mode ?
>
>textout(bitmap,font(usually just "font" or
>datfile[FONT].dat),string,x,y,color);
>
>this doesn't mask though, which means you have to make your own sub to do
>that, which is easy to do with a little ingenuity...

hehehehe Read the docs better ;-) 

text_mode(-1);  //Set up transparent textblitting.


>int FunkyText(char *str,int x,int y,int col) {
>        clear(textbuffer);
>        textout(textbuffer,font,str,0,0,col);
>        masked_blit(textbuffer,screen,0,0,x,y,320,15);
>}
>
>That should do it, you can mess around with it from there
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