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Re: Doxbox -x and idkey and italics, etc.

Hi Harry,

For the background color, if vDosPlus works in this case (WP=XY,c), then DOSBox-X's ttf.wpbg should work too since this part at least uses more or less the same code.

You can change the DOSBox-X color assignments of course, by calling DOSBox-X's built-in commands COLOR or SETCOLOR. They are different of course, and you use one or both of them depending on what you are trying to achieve. The COLOR command is for setting the default console foreground and background colors (similar to the same-named command in the Windows command prompt), and SETCOLOR command is for changing the text-mode color scheme settings (as in vDosPlus). Type "COLOR /?" and "SETCOLOR /?" for more information about these commands.

Hope this helps.

Wengier

On Tuesday, March 9, 2021, 04:51:14 p.m. EST, Harry <hb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Thanks, Wengier. It’s probably not worth pursuing further but the italics MoDe numbers come out only with white foregrounds. Can’t see that wpbg changes anything. I tried lots of variants for wpbg and Cole definitions. 

Is there any way to change dodbox-x color assignments from the XyWrite command line?

   -- HB

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On Mar 9, 2021, at 2:52 AM, Wengier W <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Hi Harry,

For the ttf.wpbg option, you don't specify #fffff or the word "white". Instead, use the color number 0 to 15. It is the same as 
the vDosPlus's optional second parameter of the WP option, e.g. "WP = XY,0" for black background. The option can be better documented though. Hope this helps.

Wengier

On Monday, March 8, 2021, 02:52:39 p.m. EST, Harry Binswanger <hb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


It's okay, let's forget about that and see if there's any way to get the bold, italics, and underline modes to work with black text on a white background. It looks like you assumed the background would be the regular XyWrite blue, so you didn't put in any of those text styles to show on a white background.
I see ttf.wpbg. Can I make it white? #ffffff didn't change anything. Nor did entering the word white there.

On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 10:43 PM Wengier W <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Harry,

> Question, when I look at the characters on screen, I see they have grey edges (I want black on white). Is this an issue of shaders, or overscan, or some similar settings that I don't understand?

Can you attach a screenshot to show you meant by this? Thanks.

Wengier
On Sunday, March 7, 2021, 10:27:27 p.m. EST, Harry Binswanger <hb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


I see that I have to set the colors in a way that I get the underlining, italics, and bold combos to work without being a different color than MD NM. 

Question, when I look at the characters on screen, I see they have grey edges (I want black on white). Is this an issue of shaders, or overscan, or some similar settings that I don't understand?

Thanks, again.

On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 2:32 PM Harry Binswanger <hb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I’m out at lunch now but will update as soon as I get home Thanks. 

On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 7:29 AM Wengier Wu <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Harry,

For the fonts you can just set the following, assuming they can be found in the Windows fonts directory:

ttf.font                = Consola
ttf.fontbold            = Consolab
ttf.fontital            = Consolai
ttf.fontboit            = Consolaz

Please use the updated Windows binary I uploaded earlier instead of the DOSBox-X 0.83.11 release for the “ttf.wp=xy4” setting.


Wengier

On Mar 7, 2021, at 7:10 AM, Harry Binswanger <hb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Thanks, Carl. Now idkey does work. special fonts still not working. And I checked that the fontpath setting is correct.

Font issues are not important to me, however. 
On Sat, Mar 6, 2021 at 9:43 PM Carl Distefano <cld@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Reply to note from Harry Binswanger <hb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Sat, 6 Mar 2021
16:25:53 -0500

Harry,

> Any ideas would be appreciated.

Does your DOS path in DOSBox-X include the directory with Editor.exe?


--
Carl Distefano
cld@xxxxxxxxxx