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Q35292: MDA Blinking Normal Inverse Text Example

Article: Q35292
Version(s): 5.00 5.10
Operating System: MS-DOS
Flags: ENDUSER |
Last Modified: 12-OCT-1988

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.

The following program shows how to get Normal Text, Blinking, No
Underlining, and Inverse, on a monochrome display adapter:

#include<graph.h>
int     oldcolor;
long    oldbkcolor;

main()
{
 _clearscreen(_GCLEARSCREEN);
 oldcolor=_gettextcolor();
 oldbkcolor=_getbkcolor();
 _settextposition(12,0);
 _settextcolor(16);            /* foreground color Black + 16 */
 _setbkcolor(7L);             /* background color White */
 _outtext("Blinking Normal Inverse Text, on Mono\n");
 _settextcolor(oldcolor);
 _setbkcolor(oldbkcolor);
}