Width and Length of a window

[A.Basit A.Bulbulia]

Hi!

Is there any way to display more than 80 characters across; and how many lines down is the maximum.

Using Screen 12; I can get 30 lines down but only 80 across. Is there any code in powerbasic which will allow me to get more characters across using a different font or routine etc.

Code :-

Cls
Screen 12
For y=1 to 30
Print using”Line : ## : ”;y
For x=1 to 70
Print mid$(str$(x),2,1);
Next
Next y

Thanks in Advance

BASit

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[This message has been edited by A.Basit A.Bulbulia (edited August 21, 2006).]

[Michael Mattias]

Using only PB-Native functions, I don't think so.

.....If you only specify size in the WIDTH statement, the logical line
size of the display (SCRN is set. size can be 40 or 80 for a color
display, 80 for a monochrome display, or 0..255 for a printer or
communications port...

But I know I did a 132 column thing with PB/DOS many years ago, so I must have done something outside the 'native' feature set, either a BIOS call or the use of some helper library.

That is, I can't tell you how to do it, but I can tell you all hope is not lost.

[Arthur Gomide]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by A.Basit A.Bulbulia:
Is there any way to display more than 80 characters across
[/QUOTE

This code runs fine!

Posted by Woody on March 31, 1998 at 08:07:03:
Subject: 132 colunms text modes on DOS

The following snippet shows how to find/change video mode
and how Power Basic can print to 132-col screen

DEFINT A-Z
OPEN "SCRN:" FOR OUTPUT AS #1
DEF SEG = 0: VGA = 20
LOOP1:
REG 1, VGA
CALL INTERRUPT 16
C = PEEK(1098)
L = PEEK(1156)
IF C <> 80 THEN GOTO SHOW
IF L = 24 THEN GOTO MORE
SHOW:
L = L + 1
PRINT #1, "THIS IS VIDEO MODE"; VGA; ". "; C; " COLUMNS x"; L; " LINES."
PRINT #1, "Press return..";: INPUT A$
MORE:
REG 1, 3
CALL INTERRUPT 16: CLS
VGA = VGA + 1
IF VGA <> 100 THEN GOTO LOOP1
END

Best Regards,

Arthur.


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[A.Basit A.Bulbulia]

Hi !

Thanks for the quick replies ; I tried using Arthur's code; however I am using XP and as soon as the code is run it enlargers the window and crashes the dos session.

Arthur, is there any modifications on the code I can make to work in an XP (cmd window). I also dont understand the peeks or pokes.


Thanks in advance,

BASit www.compubyte.co.za

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[This message has been edited by A.Basit A.Bulbulia (edited August 21, 2006).]

[Arthur Gomide]

Originally posted by A.Basit A.Bulbulia:
however I am using XP and as soon as the code is run it enlargers the window and crashes the dos session.

This code is for pure DOS environment!

For Windows you must use the console compiler PB/CC which has support for other combinations of row/colunms in text mode.

Take a look at http://www.powerbasic.com/support/help/pbcc/wf_njs.htm

Best Regards,

Arthur.

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[This message has been edited by Arthur Gomide (edited August 21, 2006).]