XP COMMAND PROMPT LOSES TEXT AFTER GRAPHICS DISPLAY

[Guest]

When a graphics program - such as the "colors" distributed with Quickbasic -
has been run, the XP command prompt shows a blank panel. Key entries are not
echoed, DIR just moves the cursor without displaying anything, etc. Issuing
foreground/background color changes has no visible effect. Is there any way
to recover visibility? The batch/program files work fine on Win9x, NT, and
2000.

 

[Peter Foldes]

Using only Quickbasic seems to bring up this issue for you. I would first check with the Tech people that make the program to see if they have a fix for this or at least are they aware of it.

 

[Bob I]

Probably have to close and reopen the instance. QB is perty old and
wasnt intended to be messing with the NT command line colors.

 

[Bob I]

It's from Microsoft and the timestamp on "colors.bas" is "9/22/87
23:05". I don't think it's supported anymore. ;-)