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Newcomers DBPro Corner / Really basic problem

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Robbit
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Posted: 9th Jun 2007 17:20
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Hello there,

Please help me with a basic problem... I'm very new to programming

I'm working through the Hands On DBPro volume 1, in one of the activities I create a line which asks to input a variable.

The screen and text background are green, the text foreground is red. But when I type the variable, it comes out as a black box on screen.

I'm not sure why I can't get red text on a green background. SET TEXT TRANSPARENT or OPAQE has no effect.

Any thoughts?

Thanx in advance

Rob

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LBFN
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Posted: 9th Jun 2007 19:42
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I don't know exactly what your code is, but this does what you are asking:


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TDK
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Posted: 9th Jun 2007 20:49 Edited at: 9th Jun 2007 20:50
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As LBFN says, the Ink command sets the foreground and background colours used with whatever you print to the screen.

You should post the code from the book here - from what I've seen from other posts, books are notorious for having incorrect program listings in them - one of the main reasons I've never bought a book on DB.

I think you'd be much better off reading some of the many tutorials for beginners on here - and then returning back to the book after when you've learnt enough to spot the basic errors you are having problems with now.

Tutorials For Beginners

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