Turbo Pascal again

hi

i was wondering if anyone knew any good sites that show how to change the visual appearance in pascal. i mean when you run the program.

can you change the size or font of the text? or colour? can you change the background colour of the window? from black to something else?

thnks.

Oooooh hoo hoo, welcome to the world of Pascal.

Pascal programs run in a command line interfance which is very inflexible. Just really used to run basic stuff. To do things like changing colours and backgrounds etc, you need to go posh, upgrade to a different (newer) language.

Turbo Pascal is very old software, back in the days before it possible to change the appearance of the backgrounds and font colours on screen. Very likely, they used harsh colours, bright blues and yellows.

This was all before the ergonomicists came by (thank the lord) and gave us nice, easy, relaxing colours to work with.

So no, there isn't, really. It's one of the downsides of learning an old language like Pascal. Learn something new, like Java for instance, and you'll find there is a wider range of IDEs available.

thanks Kaboodle.

im only using turbo pascal because i have to for a college project; i just wanted the program to be less eye straining.

I totally agree. I leant programming with Turbo Pascal - it's a nightmare. Though we did use a version which had a GUI rather than simple command-line. I can't find it online though, otherwise I'd point you in the direction of it.

Good luck with the programming.