Borland Pascal - Graphics problem again 2

[waloon]

This is a problem with running the graphics programs using the "outtextxy", where some notebooks and PC's don't show numbers and spaces - they show messy characters instead. This problem was discussed earlier here, but with no particular solution. Has anyone solved this problem for himself? How, please? Thank you.

 

[Bertv100]

This problem is due to modern BIOSes not supporting the (full) ASCII set anymore. Try to use smallfont, if you don't use large characters, it's as good as defaultfont (it's proportional though). You can also use gothicfont, triplexfont, sansseriffont, ...

Example:

settextstyle(defaultfont,horizdir,1);
outtext('messy font (on some PCs)');
settextstyle(smallfont,horizdir,4);
outtext('small font');

Regards,
Bert Vingerhoets
vingerhoetsbert@hotmail.com

http://student.vub.ac.be/~bvingerh/

Don't worry what people think about you. They're too busy wondering what you think about them.

 

[waloon]

Thank you, Bertv100, I had to use my own outtext procedure, which is "drawing" messy characters. Using of smallfont instead of defaultfont was not the solution for me, because it really looks different.