Another hair brain idea

[ahenry3068]

What if the colors could be converted to strings... I know what your thinking .. brilliant idea...

So it would go like this 
$Color:32

Presently it goes like this:
Color Brown
_Uprintstring (C,R)," This is the color brown"
C=C+75
Color Lime
_Uprintstring (C,R)," and now the color is Lime"


But, whatif

Color Brown
Lime$=str$(Color Lime)
_Uprintstring (C,R)," This is the color Brown"+Lime$+" and now the color is Lime"

Easy peasy right.

This isn't exactly the same.  But you MIGHT find this useful.

By the way.  This is EXACTLY how the old Commodore platforms already work as well as anytime your doing stuff on a terminal.    It's not really a full string but it is a control character that does stuff like move the cursor around, clear screens AND control colors.    Programming tools for those platform often let you enter that string symbolically.   That's where I got the idea for my tprint SUB in the first place.    tprint cheats in a manner of speaking in that it uses the color command internally.   But for usage it lets me write my code the way I'm used to on other platforms !