
QB screen 12 background color help needed
writes:
Quote:
>I am using QuickBASIC v4.5. In lower numbered modes,
>the background and foreground colors of the screen can be
>changed with "COLOR a, b". This doesn't work for screen
>mode 12 (or 11). What I want to do is to print stuff out with
>a different background color than the other areas of the
>screen have.
You can do it several ways - define your own characters and
use DRAW, store characters in arrays and then XOR or OR
them over coloured backgrounds, use this same method but
use one colour for character backgrounds and then use
Palette to change it etc.
TTfn,
Craig___