From: Damian Yerrick Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: failure of Allegro's textout / textprintf Organization: Pin Eight Software http://pineight.8m.com/ Message-ID: References: <8akr0e$e6c$1 AT news DOT germany DOT net> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 19 X-Trace: /wObnYl3hzhraCubbJNlEhq9kNMG5jfRaFgqpinLGkvV+FKxQpy2g/nP7XDDyIh3VBiB/fqZmyrK!vKJFGxrffnH9vsN7rgAttL4M0ngugNj2UecwonLu06anLqv3kJqe4EldC5jTsk4o5BqJl/X7AbAD!xCA8Zig= X-Complaints-To: abuse AT gte DOT net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:21:47 GMT Distribution: world Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:21:47 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On Tue, 14 Mar 2000 08:52:29 +0100, "Martin Czamai" wrote: >Could anybody tell me reasons why Allegro's function textout and textprintf >may fail? (with fail I mean that there is no textoutput visible on my >screen) Visible? If you're using eight-bit color, you have to set your palette first; some platforms automatically set it to all black or something. -- Damian Yerrick http://yerricde.tripod.com/ Comment on story ideas: http://home1.gte.net/frodo/quickjot.html AOL is sucks! Find out why: http://anti-aol.org/faqs/aas/ View full sig: http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~yerricde/sig.html This is McAfee VirusScan. Add these two lines to your .sig to prevent the spread of .sig viruses. http://www.mcafee.com/