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From: leo@sunybcs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Help needed with v_gtext
Message-ID: <1527@sunybcs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 26-Nov-86 19:51:59 EST
Article-I.D.: sunybcs.1527
Posted: Wed Nov 26 19:51:59 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 28-Nov-86 07:19:12 EST
Reply-To: leo@sunybcs.UUCP (Leo Wilson)
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Organization: guest at SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science
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Keywords: reverse video, mouse control

A friend of mine asked me to post this for her:

     I'm writing a scrolling program with Mark Williams C
that uses windows and I'm having a few problems because of
a lack of good documentation. (I'm using The ATARI ST Gem
Programmer's Reference by Abacus)
     I'm printing text to the screen using v_gtext and I would 
like to show certain lines in reverse video.  I have tried setting 
the background color to black and then printing the line over it,
but that doesn't seem to work. 
     Also, after running the program, GEM does not recognize the 
mouse when using dialog boxes.  I know it has something to   
do with turning the mouse (or mouse control?) on and off, but 
there doesn't seem to be any explanation in the Abacus book.

Please e-mail replies to either this account or to ...sunybcs!npdp1!kathy
and, of course, thanks in advance for any help!

-Leo
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