DE> I am writing a program designed for the OS/2 full screen mode and need
 DE> to use  different colored characters on the screen. In dos,there are

 Here's some functions I use to write colored text to the screen.  It may
 give you an idea how to do it.

// --------------------------------------------------------------------
// print a string at current row, column,

void  pstra( char *String, PBYTE attr )
{
  USHORT  Row, Column;

  VioGetCurPos( &Row, &Column, 0 );
  VioWrtCharStrAtt( String, strlen(String), Row, Column, attr, 0 );
  VioSetCurPos( Row, Column + strlen(String), 0 );
}

// --------------------------------------------------------------------
// print string at row, col, attribute

void  pstraxy( char *String, USHORT Row, USHORT Column, PBYTE attr )
{
  VioWrtCharStrAtt( String, strlen(String), Row, Column, attr, 0 );
  VioSetCurPos( Row, Column + strlen(String), 0 );
}

// --------------------------------------------------------------------
// write one char to the sceen at row, col, attr

void    vputchr( PCH Char, USHORT Row, USHORT Column, PBYTE Color )
{
  VioWrtNChar( Char , 1, Row, Column, 0 );
  VioWrtNAttr( Color, 1, Row, Column, 0 );
}

Phil


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