/* $DOC$ $AUTHOR$ Copyright 2000 Alejandro de Garate $TEMPLATE$ Function $NAME$ SetMode() $CATEGORY$ API $SUBCATEGORY$ Environment $ONELINER$ Change the video mode to a specified number of rows and columns $SYNTAX$ SetMode( , ) --> lSuccess $ARGUMENTS$ is the number of rows for the video mode to set. 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 available for GTDOS: 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 available 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 available for color and/or VGA monitors. Any change produced on the screen size is updated in the values returned by MaxRow() and MaxCol(). $EXAMPLES$ // 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 // Next example change to a 50 lines mode: IF SetMode( 50, 80 ) ? "This wonderful mode was successfully set" ELSE ? "Wait. this monitor is not made of rubber!" ENDIF $STATUS$ R $COMPLIANCE$ Some of these modes are not available in CA-Cl*pper $PLATFORMS$ All $SEEALSO$ MaxCol(), MaxRow() $END$ */