$COLOR
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$COLOR is a metacommand that adds named color constants in a program.
Syntax
Description
- $COLOR:0 adds constants for colors 0-15. The actual constant names can be found in the file source/utilities/color0.bi.
- $COLOR:32 adds constants for 32-bit colors, similar to HTML color names. The actual constant names can be found in the file source/utilities/color32.bi.
- $COLOR is a shorthand to manually using $INCLUDE pointing to the files listed above.
- Prior to QBPE v0.5, $COLOR was not compatible with $NOPREFIX.
- Since QBPE v0.5, $COLOR can now be used with $NOPREFIX, with a few notable differences to three conflicting colors -- Red, Green, Blue.
Red would conflict with _RED, Green would conflict with _GREEN, and Blue would conflict with _BLUE, once the underscore was removed from those commands with $NOPREFIX.
To prevent these conflicts, the [[COLOR[[ values have had NP_ appended to the front of them, to distinguish them from the non-prefixed commands. All other color names remain the same, with only the three colors in conflict having to use NP_ (for No Prefix) in front of them.
Examples
Example 1: Adding named color constants for SCREEN 0:
$COLOR:0 COLOR BrightWhite, Red PRINT "Bright white on red." |
Bright white on red.
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Example 2: Adding named color constants for 32-bit modes:
SCREEN _NEWIMAGE(640, 400, 32) $COLOR:32 COLOR CrayolaGold, DarkCyan PRINT "CrayolaGold on DarkCyan." |
Example 3: Adding named color constants for 32-bit modes (with $NOPREFIX in effect):
SCREEN _NEWIMAGE(640, 400, 32) $COLOR:32 $NOPREFIX COLOR NP_Red, White 'notice the NP_ in front of Red? 'This is to distinguish the color from the command with $NOPREFIX. PRINT "Red on White." |
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