Subj : Re: More dumb questions
To   : echicken
From : Mortifis
Date : Fri Jul 19 2019 05:42 pm

 >   Re: Re: More dumb questions
 >   By: Mortifis to echicken on Fri Jul 19 2019 16:33:27

 >  Mo> I see conio.textcolor and conio.textbackground but I am unsure how to
 >  Mo> use it ... I tried conio.textcolor=3 but it displays jibberish and
 >  Mo> completely hoses the output

 > I completely forgot that thing existed.  Can't remember ever using it,
 > though.

 > I would imagine that if you want to use it for i/o, you should use its
 > methods and no others.

 > I just whipped up this quick test and it seemed to do what I expected:

 > conio.init();
 > conio.clrscr();
 > conio.textcolor = 14;
 > conio.cputs('hihi');
 > conio.getch();

that hoses the stdout the same, oh well, colors are, technically, unnecessary,
thank you, might be a Windows thing.

I have a basic script dup_user_checker.js that takes argv's and allows user
editing ... would it be possible to upload (or have it uploaded) to the cvs /
exec/examples directory?




My teachers always said "You can't make a living looking out a window!", they
were wrong,  I drive truck :-P

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