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From: sagen@nucthy.physics.orst.edu (Milt Sagen)
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Subject: Re: Turbo Pas 4 graphic character size??
Keywords: turbo graphic
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Date: 25 Feb 89 04:41:50 GMT
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In article <1917@loral.UUCP> jcb@loral.UUCP (Jay C. Bowden) writes:
>
>Also, is there a way to get text on a graphic screen to
>automatically erase the whole character block BEFORE writing
>the character (so text-over-graphics would erase the graphics
>part, instead of conflicting with it?)?
>

The method I use is to determine the width and height of the character and 
then draw a bar, using the background color, of this width and height followed
by outtexting the character.

Along these same lines, I do wish Borland had included a way of xoring text.


Milt Sagen                    Internet: sagen@nucthy.physics.orst.edu
Department of Physics
Oregon State University
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