Can anyone please tell me how you switch the scope of the console window between foreground and backgrounnd (top/bottom) of the Desktop in W9x ? The following program behaves as expected, but _mostly_ the GRX window opens behind the console window (sometimes invisible) and scope doesn't fall back to the console when closing the GRX window. Quite annoying.

______________ #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <conio.h> #include <windows.h> #include <grx20.h> #include <grxkeys.h>

//macro to indicate that we have a GRX graphics window #define GRX_WIN { \ GrGraphicsMode _gm=GrCurrentMode(); \ volatile int _gm_win; \ \ switch(_gm) \ { \ case GR_80_25_text: \ case GR_default_text: \ case GR_width_height_text: \ case GR_biggest_text: \ case GR_width_height_color_text: \ case GR_width_height_bpp_text: \ case GR_NC_80_25_text: \ case GR_NC_default_text: \ case GR_NC_width_height_text: \ case GR_NC_biggest_text: \ case GR_NC_width_height_color_text: \ case GR_NC_width_height_bpp_text: \ (_gm_win=0); \ break; \ default: \ (_gm_win=1); \ } \ (_gm=_gm_win); \ }

#define kbhit() ((GRX_WIN)?(GrKeyPressed()):(_kbhit())) #define getch() ((GRX_WIN)?(GrKeyRead() ):(_getch())) //this allows us to use kbhit() and getch() from within //a GRX window with the keyboard events disabled.

char * grx_ver(void) { static char ver[200]; static char *os[10]; static char osb[10]; char *osbp=osb;

os[GRX_VERSION_TCC_8086_DOS ]="TURBO C"; os[GRX_VERSION_GCC_386_DJGPP ]="DJGPPv2"; os[GRX_VERSION_GCC_386_LINUX ]="LINUX"; os[GRX_VERSION_GENERIC_X11 ]="X11"; os[GRX_VERSION_WATCOM_DOS4GW ]="Watcom32"; os[GRX_VERSION_GCC_386_WIN32 ]="Mingw32";

sprintf(ver,"%s -- GRX Version ",os[GrGetLibrarySystem()]); sprintf(osb,"%X",GrGetLibraryVersion()); while(*osbp) { sprintf(ver+strlen(ver),"%c",*osbp); if(*(++osbp)) sprintf(ver+strlen(ver),"."); } sprintf(ver+strlen(ver)," -- GCC Version %d.%d",__GNUC__,__GNUC_MINOR__); return ver; }

int GRXMain() //int argc, char **argv) { int x=100,y=200;

Beep(400,500); //Console GrSetMode(GR_80_25_text); //close default GRX window printf("%s%s\n\n","Hello World\n",grx_ver()); //output to console window printf("Hit Any Key\n"); //output to console window getch(); //input from console window //reopen GRX window GrSetMode(GR_width_height_bpp_graphics,800,600,24); GrSetWindowTitle(grx_ver()); GrTextXY(x,y,"Hit any Key",GrWhite(),GrBlack()); //text output to GRX window getch(); //input from GRX window //Console GrSetMode(GR_80_25_text); //close GRX window fprintf(stdout,"%s\n","Bye World\n"); //output to console window printf("Hit Any Key\n"); //output to console window getch(); //input from console window

exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); } _______

Sorry for the lengthy snippet, but somebody might like to reuse it. Any suggestions or comments were highly appreciated. Thank you.