SANJIVANI K. B. P.

POLYTECHNIC, KOPARGAON
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Department:- Computer Technology Class:- SY CO

Name of Subject:- Computer Graphics MSBTE Subject Code:-

22318
Graphics Mode and Text mode

• There are basically two types of

graphics modes namely, Text mode,
and Graphics mode.
• There are different graphics
functions available in these two
modes useful for drawing different
effective texts and different types of
geometric shapes.

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4.2. Text Mode

• In text mode, a display screen is divided into rows and columns of

boxes. Each can contain one character. Text mode is also called
character mode.
• All video standards support a text mode that divides the screen into
25 rows and 80 columns.
• Text mode is also known as Character mode or Alphanumeric mode.

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4.1.1. Text mode graphics function

1) Window( ):- This function specifies a window on screen. The four integer co-
ordinates of the window are passed as parameters to this function.
Syntax- window(left, top, right, bottom);
2) putch( ): It displays a single character at cursor position.
Syntax – putch( char);
Example- putch(‘A’);
Displays character A at specified cursor position.
3) clrscr( ): It clears the entire screen and locates the cursor in top left corner of
screen i.e(1,1).
Syntax – clrscr( );
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• 4) gotoxy( ): It positions the cursor to the specified location on screen, where
location is specified by x, y co-ordinates of the point.
• Syntax – gotoxy(x, y);
• Where x, y are co-ordinates of a point where cursor is to be positioned.
• Example: gotoxy(3, 4);
• It positions cursor to 3rd row, 4th column.
• 5) puts( ): It display string at cursor position.
• Syntax – puts(s1);
• Where, s1 is string to be displayed at specified cursor position. For puts( ) and
putch( ) functions, gotoxy( ) can be used.
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• Example: gotoxy(3, 4);
• puts(“Hello”);
• gotoxy(10,10);
• putch(‘A’)
• Here, Hello is displayed starting from the position 3,4 and ‘A’ is
displayed at 10,10.
• 6) textcolor( ): It sets the colour for the text. Any text displayed after
this command will be displayed in a colour specified by this
command. The supported colours are numbered from 0 to 15.
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 Colour constant Colour name
0 BLACK
1 BLUE
2 GREEN
3 CYAN
4 RED
5 MAGENTA
6 BROWN
7 LIGHT GRAY
8 DARK GRAY
9 LIGHT BLUE
10 LIGHT GREEN
11 LIGHT CYAN
12 LIGHT RED
13 LIGHT MAGNETA
14 YELLOW
15 WHITE
128 BLINK

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 Syntax: textcolor (color);
 Example: textcolor(‘GREEN’);
 Is equivalent to
 int col= 2;
 textcolor(col);
 Above both codes displays subsequent texts in green colour.
 7) deline( ): It delets a line specified by cursor position. After deletion, all subsequent lines will be
pushed up by one line.
 Syntax: deline( );
 Example: gotoxy(8, 4);
 delline( );
 Above statement delets 8th line.
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• 8) inline( ): It inserts a blank line at current cursor position.
• Syntax: inline( );
• Example : gotoxy(8, 4);
• inline( );
• It inserts a line at 8th row.
• 9) textbackgroud( ): It changes background colour of text. The valid
colour for CGA(Color Graphics Adapter) are from 0 to 6. They are:

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•
Constant Colour Name
0 BLACK
1 BLUE
2 GREEN
3 CYAN
4 RED
5 MAGENTA
6 BROWN

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Syntax: textbackground(color);
Example : int col = 4
textbackground(col);
It sets text’s background colour to red
10) moveto( ): It moves cursor to the location specified by int(x, y) co- ordinates.
Syntax: moveto(x, y);
11) outtextxy( ): (“sentence”)
OR
Outtextxy(x, y, “sentence”)
Where, x, y gives co-ordinates of a point where from to display text.
It displays text within quotation mark at specified position and with latest setcolour style.

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