Change DOS Font
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I'm working on an RPG/Adventure DOS game and want to use a custom font.
What would I need to do in order to programaticaly set DOS's font when the program is run and to set it back to DOS's default properties when the program is closed?
Is it an actual DOS program or a win32 console program? If it is the latter, I don't think you can (you'd have to instead make a fake console and simulate all the console stuff yourself). If it is a true DOS program, I have the interrupts required lying around somewhere and can dig them up for you.
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im not positive, the only command promt on my OS(WinXP) is cmd.exe
Im coding in C++ and compiling with DevC++(if that helps any)
Im coding in C++ and compiling with DevC++(if that helps any)
Sorry to say, but I think the compiler with Dev-C++ only makes windows console programs, which means you can't change the font. The best you could do would be to make a full windows program and make a window that looks like a console, and then you could draw whatever you want to it.
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hmm, maybe I could code something that moves the orriginal font file to a temp folder and replaces it with a diffrent font file with the same name?
That would be a bad idea, because if your program crashed or was closed from control-alt-delete or anything like that, the person would be left with a strange console font.
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true but, thats no serious issue which couldnt be fixed with a readme.txt, faq and/or a loading screen which clearly states what to do if such a situation occured.
Plus I only want to change the extended fonts so it wouldnt be that big of a deal if the game was closed improperly.
Plus I only want to change the extended fonts so it wouldnt be that big of a deal if the game was closed improperly.
When you say DOS, do you mean a text-console game?
[Edited by - kordova on October 24, 2004 6:24:35 PM]
[Edited by - kordova on October 24, 2004 6:24:35 PM]
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