From:	"Damian Yerrick" <NOSP AT Musenet@pineight.8m.com>
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"Michael Bronner" <miggl AT earthlink DOT net> wrote:
> Hi there!
> I used to do some Turbo Pascal and GW Basic, and in those
> two languages it was simple to output text in a colored format,
> to set the background and foreground color of the text, etc.
> Can this be done in DJGPP C++ as well?

In character-cell text mode, look at conio.h
From command prompt, type
    info libc alpha conio

In APA graphics modes, look at Allegro.
http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/allegro/
Allegro modestly calls itself a "game programming library," but
it's so much more.


Damian Yerrick

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