Q35288: MDA Blinking Normal Text Example

Article: Q35288
Product(s): See article
Version(s): 5.00 5.10
Operating System(s): MS-DOS
Keyword(s): ENDUSER | | mspl13_c
Last Modified: 27-OCT-1988

On a monochrome display adapter, there is no way to display colors.
However, you can display Normal Text, Bright Text, Reverse Video,
Underline, and Blinking.

The following program shows how to get Normal Text, Blinking, No
Underlining, and No Inverse on a monochrome display adapter:

#include<graph.h>
int     oldcolor;
long    oldbkcolor;

main()
{
 _clearscreen(_GCLEARSCREEN);
 oldcolor=_gettextcolor();
 oldbkcolor=_getbkcolor();
 _settextposition(12,0);
 _settextcolor(18);           /* foreground color Green + 16 */
 _setbkcolor(0L);             /* background color Black */
 _outtext("Blinking Normal Text, on Mono\n");
 _settextcolor(oldcolor);
 _setbkcolor(oldbkcolor);
}