Hi, > Can you only have 2 files open with FP? As above, I fixed my problem > with opening the third file by closing another, and only having 2 open at > once. My config.sys has "FILES=20", so it's not a DOS limitation by the > look of it (unless my FP program is opening up another 18 related system > files behind the scenes. e.g. units or something).
Probably another 18 files have already been opened by the OS (device drivers etc) - try setting FILES higher and test again. FPC programs don't allocate any new file resources by default afaik. > I also wanted to know if there's a colour palette somewhere? Or a list > of the text-names that can be used with "textcolor"? Try the constants in crt.pp - you can set the color of a specific cell by setting textattr to the value of "(background-color shl 4) or foreground-color". E.g. have a look at the output of the following program: uses crt; var i, j : Integer; begin for i := 0 to 15 do begin for j := 0 to 15 do begin textattr := i shl 4 + j; Write('A'); end; WriteLn; end; readln; end. Iirc in DOS the character cell blinks if the high bit of textattr is set (meaning that you're basically stuck with the first 7 background colors). You can disable blinking by calling int 10h with ax=$1003 and bl=$1 (enable again with bl=$0) > When I run pascal programs (not just FP, but other compilers too), the > last text-colour I used stays even after the program is finished. The > original default colour only returns after I call something else. e.g. > DR-DOS editor. FPC doesn't use the BIOS functions for drawing text characters in DOS - so the original text attributes should be preserved after exiting for new text. It leaves the current contents as they are by default though, this is normal. Regards, Thomas _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal