From: "Damian Yerrick" <NOSP AT Musenet@pineight.8m.com>
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Subject: Re: fprintf() and using under graphic modes
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NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 03:23:09 GMT
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Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 03:23:09 GMT
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"Chaos" <chengin AT alpha DOT net DOT pl> wrote:
>
> Shawn Hargreaves napisał(a) w wiadomooci: ...
> >I think it would be more robust to read this directly from the VESA
> >driver: this can be found in the mode information structure, where
> >the ModeAttributes field will have bit 2 set if TTY output is available.
> >As a quick test, run the Allegro "vesainfo -v" program, and see whether
> >it prints "tty" as part of the ModeAttributes value for the resolution
> >you are interested in.
>
> That's a very valuable information!!
> Thank you very much for that. All is need to be done is to check if this
> condition is true, and then decide to use fprintf or
> self_made_drawing_texts_func.

The condition you need to check is
  if(1)
    self_made_drawing_texts_func()
  else
    printf_family_function()


Damian Yerrick