SETMODE()
Change the video mode to a specified number of rows and columns
- Syntax
- SETMODE( <nRows>, <nCols> ) --> lSuccess
- Arguments
- <nRows> is the number of rows for the video mode to set.
- <nCols> is the number of columns for the video mode to set.
- Returns
- SETMODE() returns true if the video mode change was successful; otherwise, it returns false.
- Description
- SETMODE() is a function that change the video mode depend on the video card and monitor combination, to match the number of rows and columns specified. Note that there are only a real few combination or rows/cols pairs that produce the video mode change. The followings are availables for D.O.S:
12 rows x 40 columns | 12 rows x 80 columns |
25 rows x 40 columns | 25 rows x 80 columns |
28 rows x 40 columns | 28 rows x 80 columns |
50 rows x 40 columns | 43 rows x 80 columns |
| 50 rows x 80 columns |
- The follow modes are avaliable to Windows
25 rows x 40 columns | 25 rows x 80 columns |
50 rows x 40 columns | 43 rows x 80 columns |
| 50 rows x 80 columns |
- Some modes only are availables for color and/or VGA monitors. Any change produced on the screen size is updated in the values returned by MAXROW() and MAXCOL().
- Examples
- þ The first example change to a 12 lines of display mode:
- IF SETMODE( 12, 40)
- ? "Hey man are you blind ?"
- ELSE
- ? "Mom bring me my glasses!"
- ENDIF
- þ Next example change to a 50 lines mode:
- IF SETMODE( 50, 80)
- ? "This wonderful mode was successfully set"
- ELSE
- ? "Wait. this monitor are not made in rubber !"
- ENDIF
- Status
Ready
- Compliance
- Some of these modes are not availables on Clipper
- Platforms
- DOS,WIN32
- Files
- Source is gtdos.c,gtwin.c
- See Also