OpenEuphoria

Re: text & graphics

• Posted by Igor Kachan <kinz at peterlink.ru> Nov 09, 2001
• 586 views

Hi John,

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> ïÔ: John McAdam <johnmcadam at clix.pt>
> ëÏÍÕ: EUforum <EUforum at topica.com>
> ôÅÍÁ: text & graphics
> äÁÔÁ: Thursday, November 08, 2001 01:55


> Hi everybody. 
> I am programing in dos. 
> I set graphics_mode to 256.
> I set text_rows to 50.
> I load a bitmap.
> I try to display the bitmap. 
> Doesn't display. 
> Why not?

Mode 256 is a rare one of the SVGA modes,
you can try use_vesa(1) command.

But you can use other more standard modes
to get different background colors to each
letter with the recent Colin Taylor's package

http://www.rapideuphoria.com/dos_pack.zip

instead of standard Eu's puts().


> I want mode 256 because it is the only graphics mode that
> lets me assign different background colors to each letter,
> instead of only one background color for all letters. In the
> other graphics modes if I change the background color
> all the black bits of the image also change. Not nice.
> 50 lines allows a lot more text information on the screen.
> It should at least display the image half height or something.

You can also try my package Polyglot, which allow to print
texts in any European and American and more languages with
any colors for each letter and back in the pixel modes.

http://www.rapideuphoria.com/polygl_b.zip  -- patch for zip below
http://www.rapideuphoria.com/polyglot.zip

And try please absolutelly excellent RDS's Archive collection
by our best contributors at:

http://www.rapideuphoria.com/archive.htm#FONTS


Under the archive.htm#FONTS item you'll see:

DOS
http://www.rapideuphoria.com/font.zip
Font Package
379K
-- Jiri Babor
Dec 5/98
happy > 8.50
stamp
a sophisticated, comprehensive, and faster new version
of his font.e library for displaying fancy fonts in 
pixel-graphics modes. The .ZIP file also includes over 
150 different fonts, all compatible with his
routines. See also "The Jiri Babor Collection" (below).

DOS
http://members.aol.com/Euphoria2/font.zip
The Jiri Babor Collection
107K
-- Jiri Babor
Sep 18/97
happy > 4.50
an excellent collection of code for fonts, mouse 
support, user interfaces etc., and well documented.
See also his new font code (above).

DOS
http://www.rapideuphoria.com/rfont.zip
Rom Font
13K
-- Jiri Babor
Jan 8/00
happy > 1.20
stamp
A stripped-down font package that loads the
system font from the ROM. It's for people who want
something more sophisticated than putsxy.e, but who 
aren't ready to employ Jiri's full-blown Font Package
(above). A nice demo is included.

DOS
http://members.aol.com/EnjoyCruz/mistfont.zip
Fancy Colored Fonts
3K
-- Eduardo Okada
Oct 8/97
routines for displaying cool-looking colored fonts.

DOS
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bay/4308/euphor.html
Font Maker
336K
-- Tom Janes
Sep 12/97
a font construction tool based on the work of 
Jiri Babor. This link will take you to Tom's site 
where you can download the .ZIP file.
(no source code, but nicely done).

DOS
http://members.aol.com/jcmiura/eu/fonter.zip
Font Package
91K
-- David Cuny
Aug 1/97
a large collection of fonts that are easy to add
to your application

DOS
http://members.aol.com/jcmiura/eu/v-font.zip
Vector Font Library
5K
-- Peter Blue
Oct 28/97
a library for displaying characters made up of 
line segments. With this approach you can print 
text at any angle, and grow or shrink the
size of characters as needed. (Note: the demo 
programs use SVGA mode 257.)

DOS
http://www.rapideuphoria.com/nsfont.zip
Display and Edit Fonts
6K
-- No Solution
Feb 26/00
Code for saving the system font, making 
your own fonts, and displaying and inputing text 
using fonts. (See also Jiri Babor's font routines.)

DOS
http://www.rapideuphoria.com/eufont.zip
Font Routines
23K
-- Matt Arriola
Aug 25/00
Font routines that can be used in both
graphics and text mode.

Items with the *stamp* mark have the zero operator's count.


Regards,
Igor Kachan
kinz at peterlink.ru