INF: Bright Underlined Text Example for the MDA

ID Number: Q35286

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MS-DOS

Summary:

On a monochrome display adapter, there is no way to display colors.

However, you can display Normal Text, Bright Text, Reverse Video,

Underline, and Blinking.

More Information:

The following program shows how to get Bright Text, No Blinking,

Underlined, and No Inverse on a monochrome display adapter:

Sample Code

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// Compile options needed: none

#include<graph.h>

int oldcolor;

long oldbkcolor;

main()

{

_clearscreen(_GCLEARSCREEN);

oldcolor=_gettextcolor();

oldbkcolor=_getbkcolor();

_settextposition(12,0);

_settextcolor(9); /* foreground color Intense Blue */

_setbkcolor(0L); /* background color Black */

_outtext("Bright Underlined Text, on Mono\n");

_settextcolor(oldcolor);

_setbkcolor(oldbkcolor);

}

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