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Newcomers DBPro Corner / Complete noob question regarding Ink Backgrounds. DBPro

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Tobo
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Posted: 28th Apr 2006 08:39
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Wotcha, folks.

Just working my way through the 'Hands On DB' book and have come across a quirk already.

It says using the following code, the word 'Hello' appears in red text with a yellow background. But it doesn't. The background remains black.

ink rgb(255,0,0),rgb(255,255,0)
print "Hello"
wait key
end

I'm using DBPro 5.9

I'll probably never even use this method of displaying text, but I hate moving on until I know what's up!.

Many thanks,

Tobo.
PS. Have searched 'Ink', 'background' etc, no joy.
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MartinS
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Posted: 28th Apr 2006 09:07 Edited at: 28th Apr 2006 09:11
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Type out "set text opaque" to the top of your code. So here's what it looks like now:


Hope that helps,
Martin

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Coder#05
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Posted: 29th Apr 2006 23:44
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ink foreground,background
hmm wierd here the text is red. (using trail)
did you try using the text command to see if that makes any difrent?
text x,y,string$

Still a noob. easy comes easy goes
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smallg
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Posted: 30th Apr 2006 16:16
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yeah basically text background is transparent by default, set text opaque works

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TDK
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Posted: 30th Apr 2006 16:23 Edited at: 30th Apr 2006 16:25
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As far as I am aware, when using the PRINT command, DBC only allows you to set the foreground (ink) colour. The background colour - and in fact all of the other text formatting commands are totally ignored.

Set Text Font, Size and all the other associated commands can be used, but the results can only be seen if you use Text X,Y,String$ to place the text on the screen. Use Print and the only thing that changes is the text colour.

[Edit] Forgot to add that I wasn't sure if this had changed in DBP...

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