Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/04/20/10:07:20
On 16 Apr 1997, Gorman Ho wrote:
> I understand how to call int 10 to use bright background colors instead of
> blinking text. However, when I use bright background, characters such as
> alt-179 (the vertical line for making text windows) doesn't appear in a
> bright background. For example, when the background is set to bright white,
> my window border doesn't appear even though the foreground color is set to
> black.
This is something peculiar to your code (which you didn't show),
because e.g. Emacs, which also uses bright background colors, has no
problems in displaying alt-179. Perhaps you have some problem in
unsigned vs signed characters or something.
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