gold@aecom.UUCP (Yosef Gold) (04/22/85)
I recieved many responses to my query about setting character
colors from C (lattice). All the responses suggested using the
ansi.sys device driver, and setting the colors by printing the
appropriate escape characters. If anyone knows of any way to
easily accomplish this (without using the dos call, which is
limited to one char at a time and won't handle integers unless
they are sprintf'ed to a string) I am still interested in hearing
it.
On a different subject, I just saw an ad for Norton
Utilitys 3.0 At the bottom had a little note there was a little
note about upgrades. It said that upgrades are $25 , and then
follwing that there was one more little note. It offered a
registered legal copy to all pirates who send in their pirated
copies for the same $25 as the upgrade fee.
I just thought it was intersesting.
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Yosef Gold
...{philabs,cucard,pegasus,ihnp4,rocky2}!aecom!goldkevinp@mmintl.UUCP (Kevin Piette) (04/30/85)
The following paraphrased from origional context :
'Does anyone know of an easy way to set character colors from Lattice C
programs using ANSI.SYS?... ...the DOS call only outputs one character
at a time... ...would appreciate hearing of a better way...'
I have written applications in Lattice C which rely upon ANSI.SYS to
provide cursor addressing and attribute selection for displayed text.
Within these applications I simply use printf. Below is an example of
a Lattice C statement to set the foreground attribute to cyan.
#define ESC 0x1B
...
printf("%c[36m", ESC);
This approach was chosen to provide MS-DOS portablility provided the
target system has an ANSI.SYS device driver. There are other methods
which enable faster display output at the cost of portability.
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Kevin Piette Phone: (203) 522-2116
Multimate International Corporation, Research & Development
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