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From: "Vladimir Olensky" <vladimir_olensky@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Newbie; Help with Screen package
Date: 2000/04/04
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tom wrote in message ...
>I am writing a program for a university project, and at the moment all the
>text on the screen displayed in black and white, that's fine, but its a bit
>boring.  I noticed that someone else managed to get colour on their
program,
>I asked them how and they said they edited the screen package to give them
>colour text. He said he used escape sequences and that he had used an
>existing procedure in the screen package(I think it was movecursor) and he
>basically modified it to use escape sequences to change the colour.  I
tried
>to do it with my screen package, but I didn't get very far.  I am using
>Win95 Gnat ADA on Windows 95.  any help would be approached?


Use NT/Win95 Console package  by Jerry van Dijk:
http://stad.dsl.nl/~jvandyk/packages.html#CONSOLE