Texas Instruments TI-99/4A User Reference Guide

COLOR subprogram
To use CALL COLOR you must also specify to which of sixteen
character sets the character you are printing belongs. The list of
ASCII character codes for the standard characters is given in the
Appendix. The character is displayed in the color specified when
you use CALL Hf:HAR or CALL VCHAR. The character·set·
numbers
are given below.
Set Number Character Codes
1 32·39
2 40·47
3 48-55
4 56-63
5 64-71
6 72-79
7 80-87
8 88-95
9 96-103
10 104-111
11 112-119
12 120-127
13 128-135
14 136-143
15 144-151
16 152-159
Note that all 24 rows and 32 columns are filled with the space
character until you place ulhcr characters in some of these
positions.
If you use character set 1 in the CALL COLOR
statement, all space characters on the screen are changed to the
background-color specified since the space character i~ contained in
set 1. This change is demonstrated by the program on the right.
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Examples:
>NEW
>100 CALL CLEAR
>110 CALL CDLDR(1,16,14l
>120 CALL SCREEN(13l
>130
CALL VCHAR(1,15,35,24)
>140 GOTD 140
> RU t-.I
--screen cLears
~~24 white #'5 with
a magenta background on a
dark-green sCreen
#
#
#
11
#
1/
1/
II
1/
#
#
II
--Note that the sCreen coLor
appears onLy at the top a
bottom of the screen
(press CLEAR to stop
the program]
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Brand	Texas Instruments
Model	TI-99/4A
Category	Desktop
Language	English