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From: cncst3@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Chunqing N. Cheng)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Text attribute in Graphics mode
Keywords: Text Background color
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Date: 25 Aug 90 16:40:28 GMT
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When working with BGI, you cannot use pascal's WRITE or WRITELN unless
you set DIRECTVIDEO=FASLE.  I do not like the tiny characters from
OUTTEXT or OUTTEXTXY.  But in both cases (either WRITE or OUTTEXT),
I cannot set up BACKGROUND color freely. If I use OUTTEXT, whenever
I change background color, whole screen change.  When I use WRITE,
TEXTBACKGROUND does not function at all.

I saw some programs do use different colors for background color in
graphics mode, how can I do this in Turbo Pascal?